The State of the Language

Edited By Leonard Michaels & Christopher Ricks

ISBN 10: 0520037634 / ISBN 13: 9780520037632

Published by University of California Press, U S A, 1980

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Hardback. Slight foxing to edge. Previous owner's name stamp to inside cover. Sunned spine to D/J. Small waterstain mark to top edge of inside back of D/J. Price clipped. An exceptional gathering of British & American observations on English as the Sensitive register of our ideas, feelings, and mannners at the beginning of the 1980s. For the author's in this book, English is not only crucial to their work, but also a sensitive record of the way we think and feel about - indeed create - our world. Touching on much of contemporary life - art, religion, sex, science, politics, education, business - the essayists together embrace what is vital and distinctive in our language as we enter the 1980s. 609 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The State of the Language
• Publisher: University of California Press, U S A
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520037634
• ISBN 13: 9780520037632
• Binding: Cloth & Boards
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Considers a wide range of topics related to contemporary language