Middle English Mouths

Author : Katie L. Walter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108565204
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle English Mouths written by Katie L. Walter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions - eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of immediate importance to medieval thinking about the nature of the human being. Where scholars have traditionally focused on the mouth's grotesque excesses, Katie L. Walter argues for the recuperation of its material 'everyday' aspect. Walter's original study draws on two rich archives: one comprising Middle English theology (Langland, Julian of Norwich, Lydgate, Chaucer) and pastoral writings; the other broadly medical and surgical, including learned encyclopaedias and vernacular translations and treatises. Challenging several critical orthodoxies about the centrality of sight, the hierarchy of the senses and the separation of religious from medical discourses, the book reveals the centrality of the mouth, taste and touch to human modes of knowing and to Christian identity.

Author : Katie L. Walter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108426611
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle English Mouths written by Katie L. Walter and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.

Author : Walter Clyde Curry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle English Ideal of Personal Beauty written by Walter Clyde Curry and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Moore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Outlines of English Phonology and Middle English Grammar written by Samuel Moore and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kington Oliphant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old and Middle English written by Kington Oliphant and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Megan G. Leitch
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152615109X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature written by Megan G. Leitch and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.

Author : John Earle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philology of the English Tongue written by John Earle and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter F. Bulmer
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1609760034
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Secret of Speaking Perfect English written by Peter F. Bulmer and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to learn The Lost Secret of Speaking Perfect English?The Moving Mouth Dictionary technique provides a very simple approach to perfecting English speaking and pronunciation.The book takes a down-to-earth approach for speaking clear English, as it breathes some fresh air into the stuffy corridors of academic learning. It is geared to help students and business people speak impressive and naturally clear English, taking much of the guessing out of pronunciation and spelling.English will become more of a physical activity, rather than a cerebral academic subject. The key is in identifying and improving specific types of reverse and forward mouth movements, actions based on using simple vertical mouth movement notations that have simple associations with key phonetics sounds for specific letters. The technique's forward and reverse mouth movements combined with a natural English rhythm also helps trigger and access vocabulary and verbs, while aiding in word retention, fluency and auto correcting.The book features a dictionary of over 11,000 words, including some of the most difficult words in the English language, which have been broken down, putting these notations into "mouthables." The process draws heavily on early humans' natural ability to howl and growl, using their mouths vertically. Hence, the lost connection between our near ancestors can aid our ability to speak clear English, an ability we have lost and need to rediscover.About the AuthorOriginally from the Yorkshire Dales in England, Peter F. Bulmer developed his presentational skills as a marketing and export director traveling and selling to different cultures throughout the world. Now retired and based in Europe, he still coaches bankers, consultants, and marketing people in perfecting their English presentation and communication skills.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gianni Guastella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191036293
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Word of Mouth written by Gianni Guastella and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept expressed by the Roman term fama, although strictly linked to the activity of speaking, recalls a more complex form of collective communication that puts diverse information and opinions into circulation by 'word of mouth', covering the spreading of rumours, expression of common anxieties, and sharing of opinions about peers, contemporaries, or long-dead personages within both small and large communities of people. This 'hearsay' method of information propagation, of chain-like transmission across a complex network of transfers of uncertain order and origin, often rapid and elusive, has been described by some ancient writers as like the flight of a winged word, provoking interesting contrasts with more recent theories that anthropologists and sociologists have produced about the same phenomenon. This volume proceeds from a brief discussion of the ancient concept to a detailed examination of the way in which fama has been personified in ancient and medieval literature and in European figurative art between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. Commenting on examples ranging from Virgil's Fama in Book 4 of the Aeneid to Chaucer's House of Fame, it addresses areas of anthropological, sociological, literary, and historical-artistic interest, charting the evolving depiction of fama from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. Following this theme, it is revealed that although the most important personifications were originally created to represent the invisible but pervasive diffusion of talk which circulates information about others, these then began to give way to embodiments of the abstract idea of the glory of illustrious men. By the end of the medieval period, these two different representations, of rumour and glory, were variously combined to create the modern icon of Fame with which we are more familiar today.