Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of IberiaRodopi, 2000 - 355 pages Saglia, a scholar of some sort whose academic affiliations are not noted, charts the various ways in which, between the 1810s and 1820s, Spain figured in British literary culture. Mainly concerned with narrative versions of Spain, specifically metrical tales and verse romances, he traces the contours of the Spanish "imaginary" in British Romanticism, offering a cultural geography of Romantic Spain as a space of war involving not only France and Britain or the Spanish and Moorish armies, but ideological conflicts between public and private; republicanism, nationalism, and imperialism; and competing models of masculinity and femininity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR. |
Contents
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The Influence of Maori on the New Zealand English Lexicon | 33 |
Asian or Western Realities? | 73 |
SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION | 91 |
The Case of Try | 115 |
Influencing the Comparison of Disyllabic Adjectives | 125 |
The wh+ that Pattern in Presentday English | 161 |
Intensifiers in Teenage Talk | 177 |
Metadiscursive Practices and the Evolution | 191 |
A Study Based on a Medical Corpus | 209 |
METHODS AND TECHNIQUES | 225 |
Optimising Measures of Lexical Variation in EFL Learner Corpora | 249 |
The Word in the Centre of Gravity | 267 |
Linguistic Delicacy in Explorative Studies | 281 |
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