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Learning Japanese as a Second Language:

A Processability Perspective
Satomi Kawaguchi
ISBN13: 9781604976854
Date: 28-Apr-10

Given the important implications of language on cultural understanding and improved communication in today’s society, the process of second language acquisition deserves much attention. This book makes a substantial contribution to second language acquisition (SLA) studies, especially for its discussion of speech processing involved in L2 sentence production and because it accounts for learning a language which is typologically distant from the native languages of the learners. Read More..

Literature and Ethics:

Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies
Daniel Jernigan, Neil Murphy, Brendan Quigley, and Tamara Wagner
ISBN13: 9781604976052
Date: 28-May-09

This unique book covers a wide gamut of literary periods and genres, including essays on Victorian literature and modernism, as well as several studies on narrative, but the central ethos emerges from considerations of issues of responsibility and irresponsibility as they find expression in literary study, and in ethics. It is an important book for all literature and literary theory collections. Read More..

The Lyrical Resonance Between Chinese Poets and Painters:

The Tradition and Poetics of Tihuashi
Daan Pan
ISBN13: 9781604977417
Date: 28-Jan-11

This book is the first book-length study in English that addresses the subject of Chinese tihuashi exclusively through inquiries of historical and critical synthesis. Shedding interartistic and cross-cultural light on this genre, it is a concise pioneering study intended to provoke further research on tihuashi and also pave the way for a study of its comparability with ekphrastic poetry. Read More..

Mahadevi Varma:

Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation
Anita Anantharam
ISBN13: 9781604976717
Date: 28-Jul-10

This volume of translations of Mahadevi Varma’s feminist political essays is the first of its kind. While there is ample work on Varma in Hindi, scholars of feminism (and students of Hindi who are in the nascent stages of language acquisition) have nowhere to turn for a comprehensive sampling of her work. This book now helps fill the void with contributions from some of the highly regarded experts in the world of Hindi today. Read More..