Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion in England, 1520-1640
Torrance Kirby and P.G. Stanwood, editors Brill 2014 The open-air pulpit within the precincts of St. Paul’s Cathedral known as ‘Paul’s Cross’ can be reckoned among the most influential of all public venues in early-modern England. Between 1520 and the early 1640s, this pulpit and its auditory constituted a microcosm of the realm and functioned […]
Marinetti Dines with the High Command
Richard Cavell Guernica Editions 2014 Marinetti Dines with the High Command is a work that dramatizes the turbulent life and times of F. T. Marinetti, founder of Futurism, the first global art movement. Marinetti’s artistic career raises enduring questions about art and politics because of his association with Fascism, and the second part of my […]
Studies in the History of the English Language VI
Laurel Brinton with Michael Adams and R, D. Falk, editors De Gruyter Mouton 2014 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 […]
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
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 […]