William Faulkner created compelling worlds with his words, but he repeatedly used his characters to warn against words. Relying on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of language as both the creation of its user and a social construct, Judith Lockyer outlines Faulkner’s discovery of the power and danger in language. Five of Faulkner’s characters—Horace Benbow, Quentin Compson, Darl Bundren, Isaac McCaslin, and Gavin Stevens—were endowed with a desire for the absolute, inviolable word. Faulkner both shares that desire and argues against it, making the dialogue about language the subtext of all his novels. Here, this continuing dialogue is traced chronologically from Flags in the Dust (Faulkner’s third novel) to A Fable (a late novel here shown in a revealing new light). Lockyer also connects Faulkner’s ideas about language and narration to his social and thematic concerns, particularly to America’s legacy of racial strife. This is a coherent, convincing reading of Faulkner, from the time he finds his true voice and subject in the South through the late novels.

New edition of a pioneering work on word order, which originally appeared in French in 1844 (3rd ed., 1879), with an index.

In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers through poetry's mysterious twilight communiques. For this new second edition, Dobyns has added two new essays, one dealing with the idea of "beauty" in poetry and another dealing with the almost mystical way poets connect seemingly disparate elements in a single work.

200 Exercises for practicing your letter sequencing skills Sample This: Letter-Order: Exercise - 01 Rewrite the following words in correct letter-order: WRONG LETTER-ORDER 01. I A E N T U M I T G D 02. M E A M S R L 03. P O N C E D I E T 04. E H P L S A S 05. P T L Y L P F N I A 06. K E R C W G E A 07. U H L D D D E 08. N N C Y E D P E D E 09. N S A B T L U O I 10. R T D B E S T C A A 11. L E A W D D 12. A F L I I L 13. L E O C D D 14. U O N O C L L I S 15. A M I N T I I D T O N I 16. T I O I N N A I T V 17. M E Y S S 18. N Y A R E 19. M R A N I N T E E C E P 20. I A T E O F C C N S 21. T C T C O I S U V E N R 22. N I O N C O R O T A 23. O H R N G E A V 24. E R E N E D G A 25. Y A V V S ANSWERS TO THE EXERCISE 01 (CORRECT LETTER-ORDER) 01. unmitigated | 02. slammer | 03. deception | 04. hapless | 05. flippantly | 06. wreckage | 07. huddled | 08. dependency | 09. ablutions | 10. abstracted | 11. dawdle | 12. filial | 13. coddle | 14. collusion | 15. intimidation | 16. invitation | 17. messy | 18. yearn | 19. intemperance | 20. confiscate | 21. constructive | 22. coronation | 23. hangover | 24. renegade | 25. savvy Letter-Order: Exercise - 02 Rewrite the following words in correct letter-order: WRONG LETTER-ORDER 01. P E I N I N X D E T E 02. E E N I T N R I G D 03. P I N I S I D 04. L R E P E C D U 05. L S T O N Y I 06. E F A B L D 07. L O W B B E 08. I A R O E C L A T N M 09. L N T U F A T E L 10. Y C U S H 11. M Y W A M H 12. E D I R A T G U T 13. G S O U E C R 14. D I L A E D V R E 15. N P E L I E B A 16. H S E A T W 17. F C E E O M R I N R E N T 18. N B I I L N C I I V I T Y 19. E L M D D E 20. N S L O R Y V E U A 21. E T I J T S R 22. S S N R U T I E S 23. A O N I S T N C M O U S I 24. U U S B T N O O E 25. S I A S T S ANSWERS TO THE EXERCISE 02 (CORRECT LETTER-ORDER) 01. inexpedient | 02. ingredient | 03. insipid | 04. preclude | 05. stonily | 06. fabled | 07. wobble | 08. reclamation | 09. flatulent | 10. cushy | 11. whammy | 12. gratitude | 13. scourge | 14. daredevil | 15. plebeian | 16. swathe | 17. reinforcement | 18. invincibility | 19. meddle | 20. ravenously | 21. jitters | 22. rustiness | 23. sanctimonious | 24. bounteous | 25. stasis

This book addresses controversial issues in contemporary church life using liturgical commentary, homiletical illustration, and theological reflection. Issues examined include: gender and sexuality, relation of lay and ordained ministries, the relation of biblical Israel and the modern state, the differences between the Hebrew Scriptures and the Old Testament, the need for careful expository preaching, and deference to tradition as well as openness to new ways. The focus here is on the Episcopal Church in America, yet the examples and pleadings have relevance to the wider Christian community.