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The Age of Thomas Nashe

The Age of Thomas Nashe

Stephen Guy-Bray, Joan Pong Linton, Steve Mentz Ashgate 2013 Traditional literary criticism once treated Thomas Nashe as an Elizabethan oddity, difficult to understand or value. He was described as an unrestrained stylist, venomous polemicist, unreliable source, and closet pornographer. But today this flamboyant writer sits at the center of many trends in early modern scholarship. […]

Language and the Creative Mind

Language and the Creative Mind

Barbara Dancygier The University of Chicago Press 2013 This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and other embodied communicative modalities, such as gesture, while […]