Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840223101
Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840223101
Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840223101
Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
College Words and Phrases ...
Author: Eugene Howard Babbitt
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Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
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Publisher:
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Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
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Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction
Author: Michael Lackey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150137849X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What has not yet been scholarly acknowledged or documented is that the Irish played a crucial role in the origins, evolution, rise, and now dominance of biofiction. Michael Lackey first examines the groundbreaking biofictions that Oscar Wilde and George Moore authored in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as the best biographical novels about Wilde (by Peter Ackroyd and Colm Tóibín). He then focuses on contemporary authors of biofiction (Sabina Murray, Graham Shelby, Anne Enright, and Mario Vargas Llosa, who Lackey has interviewed for this work) who use the lives of prominent Irish figures (Roger Casement and Eliza Lynch) to explore the challenges of seizing and securing a life-promoting form of agency within a colonial and patriarchal context. In conclusion, Lackey briefly analyzes biographical novels by Peter Carey and Mary Morrissy to illustrate why agency is of central importance for the Irish, and why that focus mandated the rise of the biographical novel, a literary form that mirrors the constructed Irish interior.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150137849X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What has not yet been scholarly acknowledged or documented is that the Irish played a crucial role in the origins, evolution, rise, and now dominance of biofiction. Michael Lackey first examines the groundbreaking biofictions that Oscar Wilde and George Moore authored in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as the best biographical novels about Wilde (by Peter Ackroyd and Colm Tóibín). He then focuses on contemporary authors of biofiction (Sabina Murray, Graham Shelby, Anne Enright, and Mario Vargas Llosa, who Lackey has interviewed for this work) who use the lives of prominent Irish figures (Roger Casement and Eliza Lynch) to explore the challenges of seizing and securing a life-promoting form of agency within a colonial and patriarchal context. In conclusion, Lackey briefly analyzes biographical novels by Peter Carey and Mary Morrissy to illustrate why agency is of central importance for the Irish, and why that focus mandated the rise of the biographical novel, a literary form that mirrors the constructed Irish interior.
A Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: George Latimer Apperson
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840223118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This dictionary aims to help users to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but is also useful as a general word reference. Special features include: an alphabetical A-Z listing; numbered senses for words with more than one meaning; British and American variants; and specially marked colloquial uses.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840223118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This dictionary aims to help users to find the most appropriate word to use on a wide range of occasions. It is designed in particular for students, those writing reports, letters and speeches, and crossword solvers, but is also useful as a general word reference. Special features include: an alphabetical A-Z listing; numbered senses for words with more than one meaning; British and American variants; and specially marked colloquial uses.
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. C-Comm (1893)
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Giving the Derivation, Source Or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that Have a Tale to Tell... . To which is Added a Concise Bibliography of English Literature
Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Publisher:
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Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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