Category: Language
Our 2016 Literature catalog is hot off the press and we cordially invite you to browse the online edition here. Use code "HZOA" to receive a 30% discount when you order! Visit the JHUP exhibit at the Modern Language Association annual convention in Austin from January 7–10, 2016.
Our 2016 Literature catalog is hot off the press and we cordially invite you to browse the online edition here. Use code "HZOA" to receive a 30% discount when you order! Visit the JHUP exhibit at the Modern Language Association annual convention in Austin from January 7–10, 2016.
If you are heading to the Modern Language Association meeting in Vancouver, BC, from January 8 to 11, be sure to browse JHU Press books and journals at booth #117. Press authors will be stopping by, and we'll offer 30% discount throughout the meeting—and free shipping in the US and Canada for orders placed at…
With the Modern Language Association's 2014 meeting now in full-swing, we're pleased to publish a second installment of Chapter & Verse today. This post draws from Daniel Tiffany's work discussing the idea and history of "kitsch" as it relates to poetry. "Once upon a time, long before it had been reduced to a synonym for mediocrity in the arts,…
With the Modern Language Association's 2014 meeting now in full-swing, we're pleased to publish a second installment of Chapter & Verse today. This post draws from Daniel Tiffany's work discussing the idea and history of "kitsch" as it relates to poetry. "Once upon a time, long before it had been reduced to a synonym for mediocrity in the arts,…
By john
January 10, 2014
American Studies, Biography, Classics, Cultural Studies, Education, For Everyone, Journals, Language, Literature, MLA 2014, Philosophy, Poetry, Popular Culture, Religion, sale, Social media, Translations, Uncategorized, Uncategorized
Attention humanities scholars and lovers of literature: We're pleased to open the "doors" to our virtual exhibit in support of the 2014 annual meeting of the Modern Language Association. Simply click the banner below to enter and browse over 100 new, recent, and forthcoming books and our entire selection of academic journals. The books are…
By john
January 10, 2014
American Studies, Biography, Classics, Cultural Studies, Education, For Everyone, Journals, Language, Literature, MLA 2014, Philosophy, Poetry, Popular Culture, Religion, sale, Social media, Translations, Uncategorized, Uncategorized
Attention humanities scholars and lovers of literature: We're pleased to open the "doors" to our virtual exhibit in support of the 2014 annual meeting of the Modern Language Association. Simply click the banner below to enter and browse over 100 new, recent, and forthcoming books and our entire selection of academic journals. The books are…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor Almost two hundred years ago, weavers displaced by the industrial revolution smashed the machines that they thought cost them their jobs. Heroes to some and “dinosaurs” to others, they saw their livelihood and way of life stripped away and felt powerless to stop it. This type of permanent disruption engendered…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor I was in elementary school when I first learned about nouns. The teacher said that a noun was a person, place, or thing. Flipping this around, you can say that people are nouns. You might think this is obvious, even in an era in which grammar has been sidelined to some…
By Michele Callaghan, manuscript editor I was in elementary school when I first learned about nouns. The teacher said that a noun was a person, place, or thing. Flipping this around, you can say that people are nouns. You might think this is obvious, even in an era in which grammar has been sidelined to some…