The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition & to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated & new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French & Italian sources his style as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social & literary scene in England in Chaucer's time & comedy pathos & romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology & the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer. ...

Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics & religion but not always adequately understood. The 2007 edition of this Companion brings the story of the movements continuing importance & impact up to date. Additional essays which complement those in the original edition expand upon the issues by dealing with gender & sexuality & the important matter of epistemology. In the light of a more conservative ethos in Roman Catholicism & in theology generally liberation theology is often said to have been an intellectual movement tied to a particular period of ecumenical & political theology. These essays indicate its continuing importance in different contexts & enable readers to locate its distinctive intellectual ethos within the evolving contextual & cultural concerns of theology & religious studies. This book will be of interest to students of theology as well as to sociologists political theorists & historians. ...

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative first published in 1997 provides a unique & valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling & methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry & in connection with a variety of media from film & television to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character dialogue genre or language shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example & indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative a glossary of key terms & a comprehensive index this is an essential resource for both students & scholars in many fields including language & literature composition & rhetoric creative writing jurisprudence communication & media studies & the social sciences. ...

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy acquaints the student reader with the forms contexts critical & theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex & demanding theatre genre but the thirteen essays written by leading scholars in Britain & North America are clear concise & informative. They address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated developed & diversified as well as how it has fared on stage as text & in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespearean tragedies (medieval classical & contemporary) cultural backgrounds (political religious social & psychological) & the subgenres of Shakespeare's tragedy (love tragedy revenge tragedy & classical tragedy) as well as the critical & theatrical receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies & in addition Titus Andronicus Romeo & Juliet Julius Caesar Antony & Cleopatra Coriolanus & Timon of Athens. ...

For more than a thousand years the adventures of King Arthur & his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chretien de Troyes Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival Sir Gawain & the Green Knight & Malory's Le Morte d' Arthur. In the nineteenth century interest in the Arthurian legend revived with Tennyson Wagner & Twain. This Companion outlines the evolution of the legend from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot & analyses how some of the major motifs of the legend have been passed down in both medieval & modern texts. With a map of Arthur's Britain a chronology of key texts & a guide to further reading this volume itself will contribute to the continuing fascination with the King & his many legends. ...

Originally published in 2004 this alphabetical dictionary is a major reference work based on the archives of the English Place-Name Society & reflecting the scholarship in the subject of all the names of cities towns villages hamlets rivers streams hills & other geographical locations included in the Ordnance Survey Road Atlas of Great Britain (1983). It provides a reflection of contemporary England not just its historical past. Every place-name entry has a unique National Grid reference number a list of historical spellings the age & meaning of the name & its etymology (pre-Indo-European Indo-European Celtic Primitive Welsh Anglo-Saxon Old Norse Old French Middle English Modern English). Where appropriate a commentary is provided on comparable names on the problems history & significance of the name for settlement economic & social history the development of the language & on its variant pronunciations & spellings. ...

Widely acclaimed as the most authoritative & accessible one-volume dictionary available in English (and now with translations into Chinese Korean Russian Italian & Spanish underway) this second edition offers an even richer more comprehensive & more up-to-date survey of ideas & thinkers written by an international team of 436 contributors.

Includes:: the most comprehensive entries on major philosophers 400 new entries including over 50 on preeminent contemporary philosophers extensive coverage of rapidly developing fields such as the philosophy of mind & applied ethics more entries on non-Western philosophy than any comparable volume & increased coverage of Continental philosophy.

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This new thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates the major developments in language study which have taken place since the mid 1990s. Two main new areas have been added: the rise of electronic communication in all its current forms from email to texting & the crisis affecting the worlds languages of which half are thought to be so seriously endangered that they will die out this century. * All language statistics have been updated & additional information provided about their linguistic affiliation * All topics involving technology have been revised to take account of recent developments notably in phonetics language disability & computing * Maps have been revised to include new countries or country names * Special attention has been paid to fast-moving areas such as language teaching & learning * The text design has been completely updated with many new illustrations throughout ...

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language is one of the publishing phenomena of recent times. Rarely has a book so packed with accurate & well researched factual information been so widely read & popularly acclaimed. It has played a key role in the spread of general interest in language matters generating further publications & broadcasting events for an avid audience. Its First Edition appeared in hardback in 1995 & a revised paperback in 1997. There have been numerous subsequent updated reprintings; but this Second Edition now presents an overhaul of the subject for a new generation of language-lovers & of teachers students & professional English-users concerned with their own linguistic legacy. The length of the book has been extended & there are 44 new illustrations extensive new material on world English & Internet English & a complete updating of statistics further reading suggestions & other references. ...

Four past exam papers for Cambridge English Advanced also known as Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English (CAE). This collection of past examination papers provides the most authentic exam preparation available. They allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content & format of the examination & to practise useful examination techniques. This pack contains the Students Book with answers & Audio CDs. The Students Book with answers contains a clear explanation of marking & grading authentic sample answers transcripts & frameworks to help with thorough preparation for the Speaking test. The CDs contain the exam Listening material. The Audio CDs & Students Book with or without answers are also available separately. ...