Navigating the lyric
Mallarme: - Collected Poems
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Sound arguments
Linguistic Reconstruction: - Principles of Linguistic Change
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The isolated imagist
Zanzotto
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The tragedy of a yellow mist and cloudedjudgement
Learning from Disaster:
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Thetford's neglected republican
Tom Paine:
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Tongue twisting and yod-dropping
The Cambridge History of the English Language
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Zwei for the price of ein
The German Language Today:
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A Spanish mosaic
Tesserae
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Global vision
(Photograph) - Global vision: the European environmental satellite ERS-2, above, will be launched next week carrying eight instruments, including the along-track scanning radiometer (ATSR-2), built...
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Mauritius wins loan
The island of Mauritius, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean known for its sugar fields, volcanic mountains and white beaches, is to receive a $16 million World Bank loan for higher education....
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Salary secrecy slammed
Many senior academic staff are in the dark about how their pay increases are awarded, according to lecturers' union Natfhe. It has blamed the scrapping of nationally negotiated scales for...
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The reel thing
As Oxford University tardily embraces film as a subject worthy of academic study, Ian Christie assures the traditionally trained that they can feel comfortable with the seductive magic of the cinema...
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Thou shalt honour thy sources
Jim Parlour argues that if we are going to lecture students on the evils of plagiarism, we ought to be clear about what it is. Wolverhampton University has launched a poster campaign to "warn...
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Our three pound engine
Paul Churchland argues that as the secrets of the brain are uncovered by neural science, its many ills will become as easy to treat as the ills of the body. The past five years have seen an...
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Past masters
Composer Jonathan Harvey recalls his former maestros. I liked several of my Cambridge tutors well enough, but I did not get the sort of teaching that I needed. Analysis was rudimentary, the idea of...