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Oldness; or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O

Oldness; or, the Last-Ditch Efforts of Marcus O

Brett Josef Grubisic Now or Never Publishing 2018 With the rapid approach of the end of his professional life, Marcus O is quietly wondering what’s next. Well first there’s a workplace nemesis he aspires to humiliate. And then there’s a style-conscious student whose shallow interests seem calculated to aggravate Marcus alone. And finally there are […]

Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism

Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism

Ian E.J. Hill Penn State University Press 2018 Technē’s Paradox—a frequent theme in science fiction—is the commonplace belief that technology has both the potential to annihilate humanity and to preserve it. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism looks at how this paradox applies to some of the most dangerous of technologies: population bombs, dynamite bombs, chemical weapons, nuclear […]

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Barbara Dancygier Cambridge University Press 2017 The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The […]

ADVA

ADVA

Glenn Deer, Christopher Lee, and Marissa Largo, Guest Editors BRILL 2018 Special Issue:  Beyond Canada 150: Asian Canadian Visual Cultures Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas is a peer-reviewed journal that features multidisciplinary scholarship on intersections between visual culture studies and the study of Asian diasporas across the Americas. Perspectives on and from North, […]

Research Now: Contemporary Writing in the Disciplines

Research Now: Contemporary Writing in the Disciplines

Rick Gooding & Daniel Burgoyne, eds. Broadview Press 2018 Research Now: Contemporary Writing in the Disciplines is designed to help students make the transition into academic discourse. It gathers exciting current scholarship from across the disciplines in a concise collection of research-oriented academic prose. Most of the readings first appeared in academic journals, but there are […]

Better Nature

Better Nature

Fenn Stewart Book*hug 2017 Much of the language that makes up Better Nature—the first poetry collection by writer and academic Fenn Stewart—is drawn from a diary that Walt Whitman wrote while travelling through Canada at the end of the nineteenth century. But rather than waxing poetic about the untouched Great White North, Stewart inlays found materials […]

The History of English

The History of English

Laurel Brinton and Alexander Bergs De Gruyter Mouton 2017 Comprehensive coverage of the history of English and of major varieties of English. This new series occupies a middle ground between textbooks on the history of English, typically addressed to the undergraduate student, and handbooks on English historical linguistics, typically addressed to the scholar. The volumes […]