ELH., Volume 71Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 ELH publishes studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The journal seeks to emphasize the importance of historical continuity in the discipline of letters without sponsoring particular methods or aims. |
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... dialect writing will prevent it from ever seriously taking hold of a canon built on tradition and order . For others , the problem with dialect was not that it was too new but that it was too old , an atavistic remnant from an earlier ...
... dialect writing will prevent it from ever seriously taking hold of a canon built on tradition and order . For others , the problem with dialect was not that it was too new but that it was too old , an atavistic remnant from an earlier ...
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... dialect was shared by the English Dialect Society , an organization founded in 1873 by W. A. Wright and W. W. Skeat in response to the perceived extinction of regional speech in Britain . Favoring the idiom of rural areas vanishing ...
... dialect was shared by the English Dialect Society , an organization founded in 1873 by W. A. Wright and W. W. Skeat in response to the perceived extinction of regional speech in Britain . Favoring the idiom of rural areas vanishing ...
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... dialect would reduce contempo- rary literature to " nothing but dry , scientific imagery " and concludes that " the dialects build up the vitality of a language . " 24 For Dawson , dialect is a sort of anarchic life force of language ...
... dialect would reduce contempo- rary literature to " nothing but dry , scientific imagery " and concludes that " the dialects build up the vitality of a language . " 24 For Dawson , dialect is a sort of anarchic life force of language ...
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Constructing the Sexual Subject of John Skelton | 29 |
Merrie John Heywood | 53 |
Wit Print Performance | 89 |
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