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LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Chinese Internet Vernacular Explained By Hua Nie (China University of Political Science and Law)
A pioneering digital ethnography of language varieties and practices on Chinese internet as a holistic sociolinguistic phenomenon. "Chinese Internet Vernacular," a complex of novel language varieties associated with the Chinese internet, is usually thought to consist of an increasing host of linguistic memes currently or once virally spread. This book attempts to account for the different dimensions and aspects that contribute to the memes' meaning and function variations, based on the quantitative and qualitative data meticulously collected by following and recording the various memes' diffusions on Chinese social media over four years.
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BRIDGE 21 PUBLICATIONS Paperback • 9781626430181 • July 2021 • £60.00 230 pages • b/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781626430778
The Bible and Margaret Atwood Edited by Rhiannon Graybill and Peter Sabo
Assembles cutting-edge literary and critical readings of Atwood and the Bible. In the nightstands of hotel rooms, kept under lock and key, in the poetry of a pre-apocalyptic environmental cult, and quoted by children, atheists, and murderers alike–the Bible is omnipresent in the work of Margaret Atwood. This volume explores what happens when Atwood, and we as readers, take the Bible into our own hands.
BIBLICAL INTERSECTIONS | GORGIAS PRESS Paperback • 9781463242589 • November 2020 • £49.00 437 pages
Poems without Poets
Approaches to Anonymous Ancient Poetry Edited by Boris Kayachev (University of Oxford, UK)
An examination of a wide array of anonymous Greek and Latin poetry from Homeric hymns to Virgilian pseudepigrapha. The canon of classical Greek and Latin poetry is built around names like Homer and Virgil, but many ancient poems survive without a firm ascription to such authors. This negative category, anonymity, ties together texts as different as the orally derived Homeric Hymns and the Helen episode in Aeneid 2. This collection of essays attempt to disentangle the historically accreted misconceptions that affect such anonymous texts.
CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENTS | CAMBRIDGE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY Hardback • 9781913701406 • March 2021 • £60.00 230 pages • 3 b/w illus.
Essays on Writing and Teaching By David Bartholomae
A collection of essays from prominent writer David Bartholomae. David Bartholomae has been a prominent figure in the field of composition and rhetoric for almost five decades. These essays are arranged and unified by a thread that connects some of the books and ideas, people and places, students and courses that have shaped and sustained his work. They trace his formation as a teacher, writer, and scholar, and open doors to paths of study that speak directly to issues related to global understanding across linguistic and cultural divides.
COMPOSITION, LITERACY, AND CULTURE | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Hardback • 9780822946724 • November 2021 • £37.50 232 pages • 20 b/w illus.
Teaching Black
Pedagogy, Practice, and Perspectives on Writing Edited by Ana Lara and Drea Brown
Presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers with practical advice and historical and theoretical questions about teaching. The authors presented here write and teach across a variety of genres and at numerous intersections, including writers of poetry, fiction, experimental fiction, playwriting, and also from creative writers who are engaged in literary studies and criticism. This book is an invaluable tool for teachers, practitioners, presses, organisational leaders, and change agents who are interested in incorporating Black literature and conversations on Black literary craft into their own work.
COMPOSITION, LITERACY, AND CULTURE | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Hardback • 9780822946953 • November 2021 • £37.50 280 pages
The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Koine Greek
Edited by Joey McCollum and Brent Niedergall
A translation of Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit into Koine Greek. Written to expand available materials for students of Koine Greek, this translation is written in Koine style and only uses vocabulary found in the Greek New Testament and Septuagint (including the Apocrypha). Translational glosses for all words appearing fifty times and fewer are included at the bottom of each page. An English translation of the Greek text is included in the back of the book.
GORGIAS HANDBOOKS | GORGIAS PRESS Paperback • 9781463242237 • February 2021 • £17.00 56 pages
Edited by Vladimir Dybo
A collection of essays from international scholars featuring comparative linguistics and the history of language. An international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. This popular journal features a wide array of leading articles written in both English and Russian alongside scientific reviews, discussions and reports from international linguistic conferences and seminars.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE RELATIONSHIP | GORGIAS PRESS Paperback • 9781463242510 • November 2020 • £57.00 179 pages
Structural Lexicology and the Greek New Testament
Applying Corpus Linguistics for Word Sense Possibility Delimitation Using Collocational Indicators By Todd Price
Shows how an analysis of large corpora of Hellenistic Greek can advance our understanding of lexical semantics. This book is a practical introduction to the use of digital corpora in the description and definition of New Testament Greek. The book traces the development of corpus linguistics as used in dictionary making and demonstrates how this approach can be applied to Greek-English lexica, with a special emphasis on defining words in context by disambiguating their possible meanings. Included are numerous case studies in the Greek New Testament applying the method to exegetically problematic texts.
PERSPECTIVES ON LINGUISTICS AND ANCIENT LANGUAGES | GORGIAS PRESS Paperback • 9781463242206 • August 2020 • £36.00 269 pages
Intellectual Currents and the Practice of Engagement
Ottoman and Algerian Writers in a Francophone Milieu, 1890–1914 By David Beamish
Examines the French-language writings of Ottoman and Algerian writers between 1890 and 1914. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a great increase in the use of the printed word and the press by non-European actors to express ideas and participate in the intellectual life of their home societies and a wider international context. This book examines the French-language writings of Ottoman and Algerian writers across multiple platforms between 1890 and 1914, examining how they were working to situate themselves within a specific cultural and intellectual space.
THE MODERN MUSLIM WORLD | GORGIAS PRESS Hardback • 9781463242398 • January 2021 • £78.00 212 pages
Edited by Daniel King
An English translation of Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros. An English translation of a Latin work on the Syriac grammatical tradition ('Historia artis grammaticae apud Syros') by the 19th-century German theologian and linguist, Adalbert Merx.
GORGIAS PRESS Hardback • 9781463241971 • May 2021 • £69.00 500 pages
Old Norse – Old Icelandic
Concise Introduction to the Language of the Sagas By Jesse Byock and Randall Gordon
A straightforward and easy-to-use Old Norse primer for learning the language of Vikings and sagas. This is a modern “primer” for learning to read Icelandic sagas and Viking myths in their original language. With carefully designed grammar explanations, vocabulary, and exercises, this new book is easy-to-use and requires no previous language knowledge. Suitable for self-instruction, inclass use, and distance teaching, students read Old Norse passages from sagas as well as episodes from Scandinavian myth and history. Free answer keys to the exercises are provided online.
JULES WILLIAMS PRESS Paperback • 9781953947093 • May 2021 • £16.99 215 pages
By Jesse Byock and Randall Gordon
A workbook of Old Norse exercises with vocabulary, maps, and answer key. A brand new workbook of 17 lessons designed for those who want to learn or sharpen their skills in Old Norse with innovative exercises, word games, and map questions. With a full vocabulary and a free online answer key, it also contains Old Norse readings drawn from the Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok and mythic passages from The Prose Edda describing a journey of the Norse gods, the great dragon´s treasure, and the magical ring of the dwarves.
JULES WILLIAMS PRESS Paperback • 9780988176409 • May 2021 • £12.99 122 pages • b/w illus.
fiction. "The Gamble" and Other Essays By Samuel R. Delany
A diverse collection of essays and interviews from one of literature's most iconic voices. Samuel R. Delaney is the acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature and fiction, whose work has fundamentally altered science fiction through their explorations of difference. This volume is both an anthology of essays, talks, and interviews covering topics ranging from sex and sexuality to Willa Cather, and a collection of over 25 pieces on films, poetry and science
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Paperback • 9780819579782 • January 2022 • £18.50 400 pages
Remainders of the American Century
Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline By Brent Ryan Bellamy
Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel. This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Theorist Brent Ryan Bellamy illuminates the political unconscious of post-apocalyptic writing, drawing on a range of disciplinary fields, including science fiction studies, American studies, energy humanities research, and critical race theory.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Paperback • 9780819580320 • July 2021 • £18.50 256 pages
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing
A Linguistic Approach By Natalia Elvira Astoreca
Explores ancient Greek scripts and their development and evolution. Most scholarship on early Greek alphabetic writing has focused on the questions around the origin of 'the Greek alphabet', instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic Greece. This study compares the different Greek alphabets in their earliest stages, i.e. 8th and 7th centuries BC, also taking into account other contemporaneous alphabets, like those for Phrygian, Eteocretan and the Italic languages.
