Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and His Contemporaries Traced Etymologically to the Ancient Language of the British People as Spoken Before the Irruption of the Danes and Saxons
Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology
Author: Anatoly Liberman
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman's comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology "by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one. In the inaugural volume, Liberman addresses fifty-five words traditionally dismissed as being of unknown etymology. Some of the entries are among the most commonly used words in English, including man, boy, girl, bird, brain, understand, key, ever, " and yet." Others are slang: mooch, nudge, pimp, filch, gawk, " and skedaddle." Many, such as beacon, oat, hemlock, ivy," and toad," have existed for centuries, whereas some have appeared more recently, for example, slang, kitty-corner, " and Jeep." They are all united by their etymological obscurity. This unique resource book discusses the main problems in the methodology of etymological research and contains indexes of subjects, names, and all of the root words. Each entry is a full-fledged article, shedding light for the first time on the source of some of the most widely disputed word origins in the English language. "Anatoly Liberman is one of the leading scholars in the field of English etymology. Undoubtedly his work will be an indispensable tool for the ongoing revision of the etymological component of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary."" --Bernhard Diensberg, OED" consultant, French etymologies Anatoly Liberman is professor of Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota. He has published many works, including 16 books, most recently Word Origins . . . and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone."
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452913218
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman's comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology "by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one. In the inaugural volume, Liberman addresses fifty-five words traditionally dismissed as being of unknown etymology. Some of the entries are among the most commonly used words in English, including man, boy, girl, bird, brain, understand, key, ever, " and yet." Others are slang: mooch, nudge, pimp, filch, gawk, " and skedaddle." Many, such as beacon, oat, hemlock, ivy," and toad," have existed for centuries, whereas some have appeared more recently, for example, slang, kitty-corner, " and Jeep." They are all united by their etymological obscurity. This unique resource book discusses the main problems in the methodology of etymological research and contains indexes of subjects, names, and all of the root words. Each entry is a full-fledged article, shedding light for the first time on the source of some of the most widely disputed word origins in the English language. "Anatoly Liberman is one of the leading scholars in the field of English etymology. Undoubtedly his work will be an indispensable tool for the ongoing revision of the etymological component of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary."" --Bernhard Diensberg, OED" consultant, French etymologies Anatoly Liberman is professor of Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota. He has published many works, including 16 books, most recently Word Origins . . . and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone."
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Shakespeare-Bibliographie. 1887 und 1888; 1892 und 1893; 1894, 1895 und 1896
Author: Albert Cohn
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased
Author: Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic
Author: Professor Jason Camlot
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409474992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson, J. S. Mill, De Quincy, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde, Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critic's changing ideas about style, rhetoric, and technologies of communication. In particular, Camlot contributes to our understanding of how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self, as he elaborates the ways nineteenth-century critics used their own essays on rhetoric and stylistics to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas and the formulation of authorial character. Camlot argues that the early 1830s mark the moment when a previously coherent tradition of pragmatic rhetoric was fragmented and redistributed into the diverse, localized sites of an emerging periodicals market. Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury, establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism-one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual, and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409474992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson, J. S. Mill, De Quincy, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde, Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critic's changing ideas about style, rhetoric, and technologies of communication. In particular, Camlot contributes to our understanding of how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self, as he elaborates the ways nineteenth-century critics used their own essays on rhetoric and stylistics to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas and the formulation of authorial character. Camlot argues that the early 1830s mark the moment when a previously coherent tradition of pragmatic rhetoric was fragmented and redistributed into the diverse, localized sites of an emerging periodicals market. Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury, establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism-one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual, and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression.
“A” Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: S. Austin Allibone
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and His Contemporaries
Author: Charles Mackay
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428214876
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Excerpt from A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and His Contemporaries: Traced Etymologically to the Ancient Language of the British People as Spoken Before the Irruption of the Danes and Saxons There are many words and phrases in the works of Shakspeare, and in those of the poets and dramatists of the Elizabethan era, that are obsolete or unintelligible, or have changed their primitive meaning. Some of the obscurities that have long puzzled commentators are evi dent errors of the press, for shakspeare seems never to have corrected his proof-sheets, like the authors of our time, and was so singularly careless of his literary fame, except in the instance of his early poems, Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece, as to allow printers and publishers to attribute to him many works, unworthy of his reputation, which he never wrote, and to publish his undoubted works without his sanction. This circumstance accounts for many errors that have crept into the text, but leaves unexplained a great number of words that must have been current in his time, or he would not have used them, but which dropped out of literary fashion in the courtly and corrupt time of Charles II., and in that of Dryden and Pope, when classicism all but killed roman. Ticism in the current literature of the upper classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428214876
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Excerpt from A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and His Contemporaries: Traced Etymologically to the Ancient Language of the British People as Spoken Before the Irruption of the Danes and Saxons There are many words and phrases in the works of Shakspeare, and in those of the poets and dramatists of the Elizabethan era, that are obsolete or unintelligible, or have changed their primitive meaning. Some of the obscurities that have long puzzled commentators are evi dent errors of the press, for shakspeare seems never to have corrected his proof-sheets, like the authors of our time, and was so singularly careless of his literary fame, except in the instance of his early poems, Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece, as to allow printers and publishers to attribute to him many works, unworthy of his reputation, which he never wrote, and to publish his undoubted works without his sanction. This circumstance accounts for many errors that have crept into the text, but leaves unexplained a great number of words that must have been current in his time, or he would not have used them, but which dropped out of literary fashion in the courtly and corrupt time of Charles II., and in that of Dryden and Pope, when classicism all but killed roman. Ticism in the current literature of the upper classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.