This is the first full-length study of one of the most popular, profitable and persistent genres in British cinema. It redraws the map of British film history by arguing that comedy was the most successful, and important, genre of the 1930s, and that the very qualities which ensured the comedy film's low status are also its particular strengths.

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9780859896030 | Published: 2000

This collection of essays shows how dictionaries today have grown from the small beginnings of English lexicography in Shakespeare's time. Discussion is anchored in the practice of the past, but the author has been concerned throughout to show how the difficulties which beset the first compilers are still with us today.

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9780859894197 | Published: 1995

Brings together primary texts from influential Jewish and Christian writers, providing an accessible overview of the major issues and movements in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. The book includes key topics such as anti-Semitism, Jesus, Israel, women and the Holocaust.

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9780859895019 | Published: 1996

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9780859895026 | Published: 1996

The Prideaux Lectures were given in 1990 by Adrian Hastings, published here in volume form. He surveys the range of interactions between the Christian church and the English state.

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9780859893688 | Published: 1991

This is the most comprehensive study to date of the fortifications of an early modern English city. The culmination of some twenty years of archaeological and documentary research, it provides a richly detailed portrait of the ancient system of walls, towers and gates which ringed the city of Exeter during the Tudor and early Stuart periods.

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9780859897273 | Published: 2003

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9780859899079 | Published: 2015

In 1955 the former University College of the South West was granted a royal charter and became the University of Exeter. This is the history of an institution that is also a community, a focus of teaching and research set within a particular environment but also part of the wider world. 130 col. and 31 b&w illus.

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9780993371301 | Published: 2015

This edition of Françoise Pascal’s collection epistolary highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter. Now in its first modern edition, this text provides new insights into seventeenth-century life and the discourses of galanterie and préciosité.

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9780859896672 | Published: 2001

The specific aim of this book is to argue that translation can add depth and breadth to both contrastive linguistics as well as to discourse analysis. While the literature on either contrastive linguistics or discourse analysis has grown immensely in the last twenty years, very little of it has ventured into fusing the two perspectives.

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9780859894975 | Published: 1997

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9780859899086 | Published: 2015

A core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taking language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies courses in the UK and abroad. Of interest to teachers of languages, other applied linguists, and practising translators and interpreters. Fully revised and expanded edition.

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9781905816316 | Published: 2020

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9781905816309 | Published: 2020

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9781905816323 | Published: 2020

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9781905816330 | Published: 2020

This is a volume in the series Textes littéraires/Exeter French Texts. If Elizabeth I of England thought to rid herself forever of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, by sending him to the scaffold she was very much mistaken, since his name, intertwined with hers, has traversed four centuries.

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9780859896665 | Published: 2000