Gilgamesh among us: Book review

By Mary Fisk|July 25, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Literature, Music, Media and Film Studies|0 comments

Professor Andrew George has reviewed Theodore Ziolkowski’s recent study Gilgamesh among us: modern encounters with the ancient epic (Cornell University Press, 2012) The book looks at “the cultural history of the reception of Gilgamesh in modern times, especially its popular reception and its impact on literature, art and music” To read the full review, go to the Institute of Historical Research’s Reviews in History  SOAS Library has a copy at QED892.1

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Linguistics – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 23, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Books Eish, but is it English? : celebrating the South African variety / Rajend Mesthrie with Jeanne Hromnik. Paradigm shift in language planning and policy : game-theoretic solutions / by Ettien Koffi. Theories of case / Miriam Butt. Prototypical transitivity / Åshild Næss. Differential subject marking / ed. by Helen de Hoop and Peter de Swart. Can these bones live? : translation, survival, and cultural memory / Bella Brodzki. Varieties

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