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EMC eMagazine Issue 66
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EMC eMagazine Issue 66emagazine is a magazine for advanced level students of English Literature, English Language and Lang/Lit.

The Malcontent
Grammar and Change
Writing Memoir
Dialogue in Narrative Texts
Genre-bending Drama – Jerusalem
The Language of Football

 
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Tags: Language, English, Genre-bending, Texts, Narrative
Inside Reading Intro: Student Book - 2nd edition
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Inside Reading Intro: Student Book - 2nd editionThe Inside Series is a five-level academic skills series that helps students in higher education to succeed in their studies and beyond.
The Inside Series prepares students to understand and produce academic texts, while acquiring key academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List.
Each unit features texts and tasks from academic content areas, explicit skills instruction relevant to academic study, and targeted words from the Academic Word List.
 
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Tags: academic, Inside, Academic, students, texts
A History of the French Language Through Texts
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A History of the French Language Through Texts

This new history of the French language allows the reader to see how the language has evolved for themselves. It combines texts and extracts with a readable and detailed commentary allowing the language to be viewed both synchronically and diachronically. Core texts range from the ninth century to the present day highlight central features of the language, whilst a range of shorter texts illustrate particular points.
 
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Tags: language, texts, French, range, whilst
Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing
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Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing

"It is only the unimaginative who ever invents," Oscar Wilde once remarked. "The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything." Converying a similar awareness, James Joyce observes in Finnegan's Wake that storytelling is in reality "stolen-telling," that art always involves some sort of "theft" or borrowing. Usually literary borrowings are so integrated into the new work as to be disguised; however, according to David Cowart, recent decades have seen an increasing number of texts that attach themselves to their sources in seemingly parasitic—but, more accurately, symbiotic—dependence.
 
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Tags: annexes, increasing, number, texts, attach
Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking
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Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking

As the first systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates three areas: deconstructive strategy, liminology of language, and indirect communication. It bases these investigations on the critical examination of original texts, placing them strictly within soteriological contexts.
 
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Tags: Zhuangzi, Daoist, Buddhism, texts, placing