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Dorota M. Dutsch examines the linguistic features of the lines that the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence attribute to their female characters, and asks whether their construction of a feminine idiom should be considered as evidence of how Roman women actually spoke....

Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media EstablishmentTwo of the nation's foremost experts on politics and communications here offer a searching analysis of the conservative media establishment, from Rush Limbaugh to Fox News to the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Indeed, Echo Chamber is the first serious account of how the conservative...

Cogently drawing upon an impressive array of primary sources and scholarly studies of American life and literature, drama, material culture, cartoon art, advertising, and popular entertainment from minstrel shows through motion pictures, radio, and television, Joseph Boskin's    Sambo examines the image in all its manifestations, brilliantly...

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged in Ireland over the last 100 years....

For much of the past century college tuition has risen more rapidly than the inflation rate. Unlike many analyses of higher education, Archibald and Feldman show how broad economic factors have combined to push up cost. These forces are largely out of the control of colleges and universities....

This book is an English version of two series of highly acclaimed introductory        lectures given by the great Swiss linguist and classical philologist Jacob        Wackernagel (1853-1938) at the University of Basle in 1918-19 on aspects of Greek,        Latin, and German as languages. Out of print in German since 1996, these...