Jonathan Locke Hart

Late Churchill

Language from Crisis to Death

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1940 to the death of Churchill in 1965. Churchill ia a key to world history and to understanding what is at stake in the world now

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781032536231
• ISBN-10: 1032536233
• Artikelnr.: 71911311

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Locke Hart received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in English and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Hart is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Member of the Academia Europea and Chair Professor of the School of Translation Studies, Shandong University. He is also Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto; Associate, Harvard University Herbaria; and Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Moreover, he is Senior Fellow, Abigail Adams Institute and Adjunct Professor, Amity School of Languages, Amity University, Rajasthan. In recent years, he was Core Faculty, Comparative Literature, Western University and Chair Professor of the School of Foreign Languages and Director of the Centre for Creative Writing, Literary Culture and Translation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has written over twenty books and edited others and contributed book chapters. A winner of many international awards, including two Fulbrights to Harvard, and having served on national and international committees, including Fulbright and Killam, he has written over 100 articles and essays and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), Leiden, UC Irvine, Peking University and elsewhere, and has given classes, talks, readings and lectures internationally.

Inhaltsangabe

Epigraph
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Prelude
2. Speeches, the Second Half of 1940
3. Speeches, 1941
4. Speeches, 1942
5. Speeches, 1942-1943
6. Speeches, 1944
7. Speeches, 1945-1946
8. Speeches and Words, 1946-1965
9. The Tributes at Churchill's Retirement
10. The Tributes on the Death of Churchill
11. Coda
Index

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Epigraph

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. Prelude



2. Speeches, the Second Half of 1940



3. Speeches, 1941



4. Speeches, 1942



5. Speeches, 1942-1943



6. Speeches, 1944



7. Speeches, 1945-1946



8. Speeches and Words, 1946-1965



9. The Tributes at Churchill's Retirement



10. The Tributes on the Death of Churchill



11. Coda

Index