Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Think On My Words Think On My Words David Crystal 'You speak a language that I understand not.' Hermione's words to Leontes in The Winter's Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watching Shakespeare's plays today. For decades, peo… OL114322W
Uber die Galgenlieder Christian Morgensterns Uber die Galgenlieder Christian Morgensterns Anthony T. Wilson OCLC 52774895 OL12691016W
The Book of Household Management The Book of Household Management Mrs. Beeton "No home is complete without this classic guide to cookery and home management. The ideal gift book, it contains hundreds of recipes, full menus and hints for cooks. Beeton's Book of Household Manage… OL1463273W
Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing Dorri Beam "Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of … OL15537055W
Pliny's praise Pliny's praise Paul Roche "Pliny's Panegyricus (AD 100) survives as a unique example of senatorial rhetoric from the early Roman Empire. It offers an eyewitness account of the last years of Domitian's principate, the reign of… OL15920710W
Reading anew Reading anew Juan Pablo Lupi Analyzes Lezama's use of language and the cultural archive. Shows how the verbal experience in his work constitutes a theoretical reflection about how rhetoric and the imagination shape our conceptio… OL16646054W
Dickens's style Dickens's style Tyler, Daniel. Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays addr… OL16813941W
Milton and the manuscript of De doctrina Christiana Milton and the manuscript of De doctrina Christiana Fiona J. Tweedie,John K. Hale,Thomas N. Corns,Gordon Campbell xii, 180 pages : 23 cm OL18207441W
Le plaisir des mots Le plaisir des mots Richard Arcand Une anthologie de mots d'esprit sur les relations entre hommes et femmes qui présente l'originalité de les regrouper non pas par thèmes mais par procédés stylistiques, depuis l'alliance de mots contr… OL24721063W
Atchley Atchley David D. Green From Library Journal In the tradition of Nabokov's Pale Fire, Green has written a book entwining fiction and commentary. Green sees language as an endless Mobius strip, and he would like to record a… OL2706687W
The Artistry of the Homeric Simile The Artistry of the Homeric Simile William C. Scott Scott examines the nature of the simile in Homeric work and its inseparability from the oral tradition. OL2929427W
The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile William C. Scott This work, by Dartmouth Professor Emeritus William Scott, centers on Homer's similes as compositions derived from, and dependent on, an oral tradition. OL2929431W
The art of naming The art of naming Anne Ferry "Sixteenth-century writers and their readers generally shared the view inherited from antiquity that the oration was the single most authoritative model of prose composition, even for a piece of writ… OL2943525W
Benjamin Franklin's Humor Benjamin Franklin's Humor Paul M. Zall Humor is sometimes a serious business, especially the humor of Benjamin Franklin, a master at revealing the human condition through comedy. For America's bicentennial, Reader's Digest named Franklin … OL3684792W
The making of Homeric verse The making of Homeric verse Milman Parry lxii, 483 p., 2 plates. 24 cm OL4968731W
The post-condition The post-condition National Seminar "Interrogating the 'Post' Condition: Theory, Texts, and Contexts" (2000 Punjabi University) Papers presented at National Seminar "Interrogating the 'Post' Condition: Theory, Texts, and Contexts," held on 20-21 January, 2000, at Punjabi University, Patiala. OL5979843W
The poetics of science fiction The poetics of science fiction Peter Stockwell "The Poetics of Science Fiction explores the language, narrative and poetic strategies of science fiction. Ranging across the genre from its pulp origins to its recent cross-media manifestations, the… OL6213008W
Conrad's narrative voice Conrad's narrative voice Werner Senn 216 p. ; 23 cm OL6414846W
Emblem and icon in John Donne's poetry and prose Emblem and icon in John Donne's poetry and prose Clayton G. MacKenzie "Few literary lives have navigated the perimeters of success and misfortune as boldly as did that of John Donne. The tensions within his work are sometimes viewed as the outcomes of shifting directio… OL7796008W