Crossword Companion

Crossword Companion
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Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages : 292
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1840223057
ISBN-13 : 9781840223057
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Crossword Companion by : Stephen Curtis

The Wordsworth Crossword Companion incorporates many special features: Clear guidance on how to recognize and work out anagrams and how to decipher cryptic clues. Thousands of synonym entries arranged in order of the number of letters in every word, e.g. fault n (3) bug; (4) flaw, lack, spot; (5) blame, error, taint, (6) defect; (7) absence, blemish, failing, frailty, mistake; (8) weakness; (10) deficiency, inadequacy; (11) shortcoming; (14) responsibility; over 30,000 synonyms.

The Best Books

The Best Books
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 632
Release :
ISBN-10 : UFL:31262045793576
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Best Books by : William Swan Sonnenschein

Critical Forms

Critical Forms
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 262
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198881117
ISBN-13 : 0198881118
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Critical Forms by : Ross Wilson

Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures, dialogues, letters, and life-writing. Though not intended to be an exhaustive history of the period, Critical Forms begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the emergence of something like the forms (chiefly, the essay and the treatise) in which criticism is still predominantly practised. In order at least to complicate this predominance, the book documents an abiding plurality in the forms of literary critical writing in the subsequent period, leading up to the present. Ross Wilson both questions the status of the essay and treatise as the 'natural' forms of literary criticism and shows that the history of literary criticism is much more formally various and innovative than the usual ways of recounting that history as a succession of schools and movements would allow. Critical Forms harbours the hope that it will make available a wider array of forms for the practice of literary criticism today; it is this hope that licenses its own experiments in critical form.

The New Statesman

The New Statesman
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 912
Release :
ISBN-10 : UCBK:B000549837
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Statesman by :

Emerson as Philosopher

Emerson as Philosopher
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 214
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783031325465
ISBN-13 : 303132546X
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Emerson as Philosopher by : Richard Gilmore

This book considers the role of postmodernism (skepticism towards metanarratives and anti-essentialism) in Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy by putting it in conversation with key 20th and 21st century thinkers such as Beauvoir, Coates, Derrida, Paz, Rorty, and Zizek. Postmodern Emerson shows how Emersonian skepticism to metanarratives such as sexism, racism, Beauvoiran "serious values," and others, can help us face some of society's gravest contemporary social and philosophical challenges. Methodologically, the book exemplifies Emersonian postmodernism by defying traditional philosophical metanarratives about the difference between high and low culture or serious and ridiculous subjects, and Emerson with what would seem to be his opposite. This is itself a postmodern gesture, breaking rules of genre and topic to make unlikely but interesting connections. Above all, this book proves that in this time of social division and widespread despair, Emerson can help.

Spelling

Spelling
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Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
Total Pages : 59
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781863115117
ISBN-13 : 1863115110
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Spelling by : R.I.C. Publications Pty, Limited

The Art, Humor, and Humanity of Mark Twain

The Art, Humor, and Humanity of Mark Twain
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 434
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780806187556
ISBN-13 : 0806187557
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art, Humor, and Humanity of Mark Twain by : Minnie M. Brashear

Mark Twain is revealed here in an entirely new autobiographical light from his own writings as they reflect his career, his thinking, and his humor. This volume captures the grandeur that distinguishes Mark Twain as, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, “by far the greatest American writer.” Made up of short stories and excerpts from Twain’s principal works, this collection demonstrates Twain’s artistry in handling anecdotes, tales, description, and characterization; the fervency of his ethical convictions; his effective use of irony, satire, burlesque, and caricature; and his essential humanity. By arranging the materials in chronological order and weaving them together with critical commentary, the editors present the many facets of Mark Twain’s experience and his dynamic personality with greater continuity than in previous collections of Twain’s writings. Here is the optimism of the young Mark Twain responding to the rough and rugged vitality of the mid-nineteenth-century American scene, and the skepticism and pessimism of the older Mark Twain reacting to the American democratic experiment of the late nineteenth century.