Learn more than 3,000 English expressions and speak and understand the language easily
As a new speaker of English, you may hear some expressions in your daily conversations that you do not understand--yet. "McGraw-Hill's Conversational American English" will help you learn these expressions, so not only do you know what a person is saying to you, but that you can use the expression yourself More than 3,000 expressions are organized by theme, so you can find what you are looking for quickly. And each topic is illustrated to further help you understand context.
The book features: Common expressions are batched into 350 themes, ranging from general greetings and asking how someone is, to the more specific needs, like showing disbelief, asking someone's intentions, and expressions for a forgotten word or name A comprehensive thematic glossary provides an additional means for the learner to locate expressions by key words and concepts
Topics include: Basic Social Encounters, Greetings, Small Talk, Introductions, Ending a Conversation, Good-Byes, Agreeing, Disagreeing Conversational Encounters, Focusing Attention, Launching the Conversation, Making Friends, Complex Matters, Disputes, Discussion and Resolution, Polite Encounters, Prefaces, Communication Barriers
Описание: This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It surveys primary and secondary writings under the evolving category of gay and lesbian authorship, and incorporates current thinking in US-based LGBTQ studies as well as critical practices within the field of American literary studies. This Companion also addresses the ways in which queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading, while paying attention to the transnational component of such literatures. In so doing, it details the chief genres, conventional historical backgrounds, and influential interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.
Описание: Containing more than 7,000 phrases, this dictionary covers situations from talking to a doctor to ordering a meal, and helps learners communicate personal feelings, and make small talk.
Автор: Barbas-Rhoden, Laura Название: Ecological imaginations in Latin American fiction ISBN: 0813035465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813035468 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 12223 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Amazon to the windswept lands of Tierra del Fuego, Laura Barbas-Rhoden discusses the natural settings within contemporary Latin American novels as they depict key moments of environmental change or crisis in the region from the nineteenth-century imperialism to the present.
Название: Companion to american fiction 1865-1914 ISBN: 1405195533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405195539 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5294 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A collection of 29 essays that covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches. It explores various topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children`s literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction.
Автор: Samuels Shirley, Peckham Stephen, Tew Philip, Название: Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865 ISBN: 0631234225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631234227 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 20866 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents the state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. This title relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity.
Автор: Stoneley Название: Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900-1950 ISBN: 1405133678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405133678 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3988 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An authoritative guide to American literature, this companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of
the early 20th century. This Companion provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction. It considers commonly studied authors such as
Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, alongside key texts of the period by Richard Wright, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, and Anzia Yezierska.It examines how the works of
these diverse writers have been interpreted in their own day and how current readings have expanded our understanding of their cultural and literary significance.
It covers a
broad range of topics, including the First and Second World Wars, literary language differences, author celebrity, the urban landscape, modernism, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression,
regionalism, and African-American fiction. It gives students the contextual information necessary for formulating their own critiques of classic American fiction.
Автор: Nickerson Название: The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction ISBN: 0521136067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521136068 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3148 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction.
Автор: Nickerson Название: The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction ISBN: 0521199379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521199377 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7257 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction.
Автор: Duvall Название: The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 ISBN: 052112347X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521123471 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3148 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Автор: Geyh Название: The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction ISBN: 1107502772 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107502772 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3148 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this remarkable period. It traces the development of postmodern American fiction over the past half-century and explores its key aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. It examines its principal styles and genres, from the early experiments with metafiction to the most recent developments, such as the graphic novel and digital fiction, and offers concise, compelling readings of many of its major works. An indispensable resource for students, scholars, and the general reader, the Companion both highlights the extraordinary achievements of postmodern American fiction and provides illuminating critical frameworks for understanding it.
Описание: Few previous periods in the history of American literature could rival the richness of the postmodern era - the diversity of its authors, the complexity of its ideas and visions, and the multiplicity of its subjects and forms. This volume offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the American fiction of this remarkable period. It traces the development of postmodern American fiction over the past half-century and explores its key aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts. It examines its principal styles and genres, from the early experiments with metafiction to the most recent developments, such as the graphic novel and digital fiction, and offers concise, compelling readings of many of its major works. An indispensable resource for students, scholars, and the general reader, the Companion both highlights the extraordinary achievements of postmodern American fiction and provides illuminating critical frameworks for understanding it.
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