The thirty essays in English Literature and the Other Languages trace how the tangentiality of English and other modes of language affects the production of Eng

Literature in English is hardly ever entirely in English. Contact with other languages takes place, for example, whenever foreign languages are introduced, or i

This undergraduate textbook introduces English literature students to the application of linguistics to literary analysis.

Plural? monolithic? legion? - Tom McArthur explores the nature of English in its local and global contexts.

This collection of twenty-nine papers is in honour of E. G. Stanley, Rawlinson and Bosworth Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and Em