by Frank Kermode (2000)
"This book argues that something extraordinary happened to Shakespeare's language in midcareer, somewhere around 1600.". "An initial discussion of some of the language of the earlier plays looks for signs as to what was afoot, and this leads to a treatment of the central turning point. The rest of the book provides close studies of what came after that, in the great works between Hamlet and The Tempest. Special attention is paid to many passages which are now so obscure that after all the work done by scholars they remain difficult. How could this be so, when Shakespeare was always a popular dramatist? How did this language develop, and how did it happen that in spite of everything Shakespeare had an audience capable of understanding Hamlet at the beginning of the decade and Coriolanus near the end of it?"--BOOK JACKET.
Chris Anderson
"Taking the position that style has value in its own right, that language forms a major component of the story that a nonfiction writer has to tell, [Chris] Anderson anaylzes the work of America's foremost practioners of New Journalism -- Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion."--Jacket.
Felicia Lowenstein Niven
"Discusses the fashions of the 1930s, including women's and men's clothing and hairstyles, accessories, trends and fads, and world events that influenced the fashion"--Provided by publisher.
Stuart Berg Flexner
An illustrated survey of the origins, evolutions, and meanings of thousands of phrases, and expressions unique to American English adds up to an entertaining, reliable history of modern American idioms and speech.
Alexander Bergs, Laurel J. Brinton
"This book: give a comprehensive and descriptive overview of the entire language history of English ; illustrates and discusses current trends, theories, and methods of the field ; contains an overview of the history of historical linguistics as a discipline as well ; has more than 100 articles with general introductions to the different subjects which are intelligible to all ; includes an extensive index."--Publisher's website.