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Shakespearean. On Life & Language in Times of Disruption Роберт Маккрам
ISBN: 9781509896981 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: Picador Why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?
When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became his 'book of life', an endless source of inspiration through which he could embark on 'journeys of the mind', and see a reflection of our own disrupted times.
An acclaimed writer and journalist, McCrum has spent the last twenty-five years immersed in Shakespeare's work, on stage and on the page. During this prolonged exploration, Shakespeare's poetry and plays, so vivid and contemporary, have become his guide and consolation. In Shakespearean he asks: Why is it that we always return to Shakespeare, particularly in times of acute crisis and dislocation? What is the key to his hold on our imagination? And why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?
Shakespearean is a rich, brilliant and superbly drawn portrait of an extraordinary artist, one of the greatest writers who ever lived. Through an enthralling narrative, ranging widely in time and space, McCrum seeks to understand Shakespeare within his historical context while also exploring the secrets of literary inspiration, and examining the nature of creativity itself. Witty and insightful, he makes a passionate and deeply personal case that Shakespeare's words and ideas are not just enduring in their relevance - they are nothing less than the eternal key to our shared humanity. -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption Роберт Маккрам
ISBN: 9781509896974 Год издания: 2020 Издательство: Macmillan Ltd Язык: Английский 'Enchanting' Simon Russell Beale --- 'Remarkable' James Shapiro
'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' Nicholas Hytner
Why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?
When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that ma -
Every Third Thought: On Life, Death, and the Endgame Роберт Маккрам
ISBN: 9781509815296 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Macmillan Ltd Язык: Английский As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg
'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse
In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a -
My Year Off. Rediscovering Life After a Stroke Роберт Маккрам
ISBN: 9781447289265 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Macmillan Ltd Язык: Английский With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm
My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?
Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaired, and his sense of himself radically altered. What followed was a prolonged period of recovery, -
Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language Роберт Маккрам
ISBN: 978-0-141-02710-4 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Penguin Books Язык: Английский Go anywhere in the world today and you'll see or hear English in some form. It may not necessarily be the Queen's English that you're hearing, but it is, nevertheless, a form of universally recognised English - it is Globish. In his wonderfully witty and informative new book, Robert McCrum explores the curious history, vivacity and endurance of English and ponders why, while British and American empires have waxed and waned, the English language, freer from its moorings like never before, has quietly taken over the world.
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language Robert Mccrum
ISBN: 9780393062557 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: W. W. Norton Company Язык: Английский How English conquered the world: a Guns, Germs, and Steel argument based on the power of the word.
It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. Equally unlikely, a colony of that island nation, across the Atlantic, grows into the military and cultural colossus of the twentieth century. How? By the sword, of course; by trade and industrial ingenuity; but principally, and most surprisingly, by the power of their common language.
In this provocative and compelling new look at the course of empire, Robert McCrum, coauthor of the best-selling book and television series The Story of English, shows how the language of the Anglo-American imperium has become the world’s lingua franca. In fascinating detail he describes the ever-accelerating changes wrought on the language by the far-flung cultures claiming citizenship in the new hegemony. In the twenty-first century, writes the author, English + Microsoft = Globish. -
Globish Роберт Маккрам
ISBN: 978-0-670-91887-4 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Penguin Books Язык: Английский A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. As its power spreads, its language inevitably follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into the military and cultural colossus of the twentieth century. These centuries of empire-building and war, international trade and industrial ingenuity, will bring to the world great works of literature and extraordinary movies, cricket pitches and episodes of Dallas, the printing press and the internet.
But then what? As Robert McCrum demonstrates in his provocative new book, what happens next is quite unprecedented. While the global dominance of Anglo-American power appears to be on the wane, the English language has acquired an astonishing new life of its own. With a supranational momentum, it is now able to zoom across time and space at previously unimaginable speeds. In McCrum's analysis, the cultural revolution of our times is the emergence of English, a global phenomenon as never before, to become the world's language. In the twenty-first century, writes the author, "English + Microsoft = Globish". -
The Story of English Robert Macneil, Роберт Маккрам, William Cran
ISBN: 0142002313, 978-0142002315 Год издания: 2002 Издательство: Penguin Books Язык: Английский Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English—from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture with more than one billion English speakers around the world. From Cockney, Scouse, and Scots to Gulla, Singlish, Franglais, and the latest African American slang, this sweeping history of the English language is the essential introduction for anyone who wants to know more about our common tongue. -
Зарубежный детектив. (сборник) Росс Макдональд, Л. Грандпьер, Роберт Маккрам
Год издания: 1987 Издательство: Молодая гвардия Язык: Русский В сборник вошли три романа детективного жанра: венгерский автор Лайош Грандпьер в романе "Ядовитые плоды" рассказывает о расследовании убийства богача Леринца Колечанского; роман "В тайном государстве" английского писателя Роберта Маккрама вводит читателя за кулисы деятельности британских спецслужб; в романе "Вокруг одни враги" известного американского писателя Росса Макдональда нехитрое на первый взгляд дело об исчезновении дочери состоятельных родителей оборачивается загадочной цепью трагических событий.