Bøger af Don LePan

Offers a concise and user-friendly guide to the contested areas of English usage. Can we use language in ways that avoid giving expression to prejudices embedded within it? Can the words we use help us point a way towards a better world? Can we take these issues with appropriate seriousness while remaining open-minded? To all these questions this little book answers, Yes.

LePan challenges the assumption that everybody thinks in the same way by examining a particular mental faculty - expectation. He concludes that certain forms of expectation did not exist in the minds of most medieval people, any more than they do in children or adults in many primitive societies.

These volumes provide an overview of British literature in its social and historical context from the Anglo-Saxon period through to the twenty-first century. They provide essential background for those unfamiliar with the unfolding of British political, social, economic, and cultural history during each of the six periods into which the study of British literature is commonly divided.

These volumes provide an overview of British literature in its social and historical context from the Anglo-Saxon period through to the twenty-first century. They provide essential background for those unfamiliar with the unfolding of British political, social, economic, and cultural history during each of the six periods into which the study of British literature is commonly divided.

"Maintains that the Renaissance did not just introduce new ideas into Western culture but radically changed cognitive processes." -- Studies in English Literature