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  • Chris McCully: Selected Poems

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    Featuring sonnets, sestinas, villanelles, and translations from Old English, this compilation by Dutch poet Chris McCully spans 16 years of his work. A meditation on extinction, this supple, sparing verse celebrates the fragile place in which we live as it reveals the author's engagement with language and the poetic form. Inspired in part by Anglo Saxon elegy, this rich and unique collection ... En savoir plus

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  • Beowulf

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    Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea-crossings, oracular pronouncements, and encounters with the monstrous. This version renders the original in readable contemporary English, but also keeps as close as it can to the older, alliterative ... En savoir plus

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  • Serengeti Songs

    par Chris McCully ...
    The formation of the Serengeti in Africa, the emergence of homo sapiens, the amazing wildlife, patterns of migration and predation are the themes of the fiercely engaged poems and photographs in this unusual book, which brings to life Tanzania and Kenya to our eyes and ears. ... En savoir plus

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  • Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful

    Alcoholism, Addiction and Early Recovery

    par Chris McCully ...
    Alcohol thought Chris McCully was Mr. Wonderful. When Chris was drinking, he sometimes thought so too - Mr. Generous, Mr. Witty and Charming, Mr. Champagne. But there are other labels - 'chronic alcoholic' (all over the medical notes); 'high risk offender' (in the court record). Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful gives a detailed account of the early stages of recovery from alcoholism. From his admittance ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sound Structure of English

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    par Chris McCully ...
    Collections series Cambridge Introductions to the English Language
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  • The Earliest English

    An Introduction to Old English Language

    Collections series Learning about Language
    The Earliest Englishprovides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to ... En savoir plus

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  • Analysing Older English

    Collections series Studies in English Language
    Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, gaps in the data can sometimes be filled. The volume brings together a team of leading English historical ... En savoir plus

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