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Beschreibung
From nature to cultural appropriation, and from black to terror, the most important words in political and cultural debate have complicated and complex histories. Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of these and other important words in the English language, helping us to better understand our contemporary world.
From nature to cultural appropriation, and from black to terror, the most important words in political and cultural debate have complicated and complex histories. Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of these and other important words in the English language, helping us to better understand our contemporary world.
Über den Autor
The Keywords Project is an independent group of scholars who, with the support of the University of Pittsburgh, Jesus College, Cambridge, and the academic journal Critical Quarterly, have spent more than a decade preparing Keywords for Today.

Colin MacCabe taught the history of modern and Early Modern English at Cambridge and Strathclyde universities before becoming Head of Production at the British Film Institute in 1985. Since then he has combined literary criticism and film production. His most recent book is Perpetual Carnival: Essays in Film and Literature (2017) and his most recent film The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2016). He edits Critical Quarterly and chairs The Derek Jarman Lab.

Holly Yanacek is Assistant Professor of German in the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at James Madison University. Her research focuses on 19
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • How to Read Keywords for Today

  • Keywords

  • Appendix 1: Sources of Lexical Data

  • Appendix 2: History of the Keywords Project

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190636579
ISBN-10: 0190636572
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: The Keywords Project
Redaktion: The Keywords Project
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 210 x 140 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: The Keywords Project
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.12.2018
Gewicht: 0,504 kg
Artikel-ID: 121734305