Kingsley Bolton and Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099470
- eISBN:
- 9789882207264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099470.003.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This book presents the important aspects of Philippine English, from both a linguistic and literary perspective. It considers some of the sociolinguistic (i.e. historical, social, political, and ...
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This book presents the important aspects of Philippine English, from both a linguistic and literary perspective. It considers some of the sociolinguistic (i.e. historical, social, political, and linguistic) aspects that have influenced the spread of the language, and the impact of historical, social, and political factors in shaping English language and literature in the Philippines.Less
This book presents the important aspects of Philippine English, from both a linguistic and literary perspective. It considers some of the sociolinguistic (i.e. historical, social, political, and linguistic) aspects that have influenced the spread of the language, and the impact of historical, social, and political factors in shaping English language and literature in the Philippines.
M. A. Lourdes S. Bautista and Kingsley Bolton (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099470
- eISBN:
- 9789882207264
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099470.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both linguistic and literary ...
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The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both linguistic and literary perspectives. The volumes in this series reflect themes that cut across national boundaries, including the study of language policies; globalization and linguistic imperialism; English in the media; English in law, government, and education; “hybrid” Englishes; and the bilingual creativity manifested by the vibrant creative writing found in a swathe of Asian societies. This book provides an overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.Less
The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both linguistic and literary perspectives. The volumes in this series reflect themes that cut across national boundaries, including the study of language policies; globalization and linguistic imperialism; English in the media; English in law, government, and education; “hybrid” Englishes; and the bilingual creativity manifested by the vibrant creative writing found in a swathe of Asian societies. This book provides an overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.
Jeffrey Knapp
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226445717
- eISBN:
- 9780226445731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226445731.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter, which examines Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer from the literary perspective of his sonnets, begins by examining Shakespeare's quite different contemporary reputation as a ...
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This chapter, which examines Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer from the literary perspective of his sonnets, begins by examining Shakespeare's quite different contemporary reputation as a commanding writer. It shows how celebrations of Shakespeare as a sovereign poet were complicated by the very popularity of his work for the stage, and how Shakespeare himself emphasized this complication in his sonnets. The first portion of the sonnets, which portrays the speaker's love for a lordly young man, expresses at times a supreme confidence in the speaker's literary power. Although authorship ceases to be a sufficient description of the speaker in the later sonnets, a strangely base kind of sovereignty becomes more prominent there, as the high-mindedly ambitious poet metamorphoses into a singularly vulgar mass entertainer.Less
This chapter, which examines Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer from the literary perspective of his sonnets, begins by examining Shakespeare's quite different contemporary reputation as a commanding writer. It shows how celebrations of Shakespeare as a sovereign poet were complicated by the very popularity of his work for the stage, and how Shakespeare himself emphasized this complication in his sonnets. The first portion of the sonnets, which portrays the speaker's love for a lordly young man, expresses at times a supreme confidence in the speaker's literary power. Although authorship ceases to be a sufficient description of the speaker in the later sonnets, a strangely base kind of sovereignty becomes more prominent there, as the high-mindedly ambitious poet metamorphoses into a singularly vulgar mass entertainer.
