Word: englishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...volume, best-selling Chinese edition of Brothers was published amid great fanfare in 2005 and 2006, and constituted the first major work in a decade from the author chiefly famed for To Live - a depiction of revolutionary society adapted for the screen by Zhang Yimou. This new English translation of Brothers excellently captures its beauty and high farce...
...Born and raised in a small village on the bank of the Nile, he was educated at universities in London and Khartoum. For most of his life, he worked for cultural organizations in the Middle East and Europe. He wrote in his native Arabic and found great success in English translation. Salih was a treasure. His death is a loss not just for his readers but for everything that binds us together...
...English department’s new curriculum was approved on Tuesday and will be introduced next fall. Under the revamped system, large surveys of British literature will no longer be mandatory, and will be replaced by smaller discussion-based courses, grouped in four common-ground categories: “Arrivals,” “Diffusions,” “Poets,” and “Shakespeares?...
...curriculum, which the English department began in March and ratified in December, was approved outright by the Educational Policy Committee. Stephanie H. Kenen, EPC member and associate dean of undergraduate education, said that the committee refers about half of curriculum proposals back to departments, but in this case it only sent back questions...
...Born to Chinese immigrants, Locke, 59, spent his early childhood in Seattle public housing for families of World War II vets and did not learn English until entering kindergarten. He went on to earn a scholarship to Yale and received a law degree from Boston University...