Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender
Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender

Author: John Kitchen

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0195117220

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He then focuses on one of the few biographies written at that time by a female author, Baudonivia's Life of Saint Radegund. Baudonivia's story of a female saint is considered in light of the previous observations on Fortunatus, Gregory, and the prominent trends that characterize the literature's early development.

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Language

Author: Leonard Bloomfield

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9788120811966

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The book presents the fundamentals of linguistics and the historical survey of languages ​​to the reader without any complication and obscurity. It is a valuable book for students and scholars of linguistics. The author has followed the traditional order of presentation. He begins with the survey of languages ​​of the world, proceeds with the study of phonetic structure, grammatical forms, syntax and morphology, each being the indispensable preliminary to the study of the ensuing one. The book is divided into 38 chapters which gives a detailed and thorough knowledge of the subject on all important issues, such as analogic and semantic changes, cultural, intimate and dialect borrowings and scores of other points related to the subjects. Of these, Chapter 24 - Semantic Change and Chapter 25 - Cultural Borrowings are much palatable. It is in these chapters that the reader can get right away from the mechanics of language and follow the play of human mind. The book is documented with notes, bibliography, table of phonetic symbols and index.