A Fall Of Words
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The Rise Of The Image The Fall Of The Word
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Author : Mitchell Stephens
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-10-08
The Rise Of The Image The Fall Of The Word written by Mitchell Stephens and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-08 with Art categories.
Stephens sees in video's complexities, simultaneities, and juxtapositions, new ways of understanding and perhaps even surmounting the tumult and confusions of contemporary life.
Words And The Poet
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Author : R. O. A. M. Lyne
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998
Words And The Poet written by R. O. A. M. Lyne and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
Readers familiar with Dr Lyne's last book on Virgil will know what to expect. There is the same clarity of expression and layout, the same care to make his use of special terminology unambiguous, the same passionate belief, to use his own words, that "nothing in Vergil is without purpose of explanation". Dr Lyne undoubtedly makes the reader think and sharpens his perception of Virgil; he imparts much interesting, factual information in a clear, orderly style and his passion to know what can be found in Virgil's text is genuine and attractive.' Greece and Rome To a surprising extent Vergil avoids artifices of poetic diction like archaism and grecism, preferring ordinary language: words that were the common stock of the Latin tongue or even (and this remarkably often) words that conventional poets generally avoided at all costs as too ordinary (prosaisms, colloquialisms). In this he shares the taste of his contemporary Horace. The present book identifies and categorizes such diction in vergil. But more importantly it shows how such comparatively unpromising material is converted by the poet's methods of `combination' (iunctura) into poetry. Parallels are drawn with Horace's procedures, and Vergil's boldness stressed. Horace combines words in such a way as to `make them new'; Vergil's combinations veritably extort unexpected and novel sense. Horace can put prosaic words to work in spite of their unpromising familiarity; Vergil more vigorously exploits them. The Vergilian techniques of extortion and exploitation are richly illustrated in this book. Not all Vergil's characteristic methods merit such violent descriptions. His use of the traditional simile ('narrative through imagery') is characterized by discretion and guile - but at key points links up with those more forceful methods. Guileful too is the way in which he may persuade some neutral word to acquire a specal sense over a stretch of text - or the way he may incite us to pursue a sequence of related effects. Vergilian narrative through imagery, and his techniques of incitement and acquisition, are also fully explained in this richly original and informative book.
Unfortunate Words Of The Bible
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Author : G. P. Wagenfuhr
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-06-25
Unfortunate Words Of The Bible written by G. P. Wagenfuhr and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-25 with Religion categories.
What do unicorns, law, love, and hell all have in common? They are all unfortunate words of the Bible. Through mistranslation, cultural shifts, anachronisms, and misguided intentions, this book traces several key words whose meaning is commonly misunderstood in our world today. If the blatant mistranslation of unicorns could survive in the Bible for thousands of years, securing their place in our cultural imagination to this day, what would happen if important words, like salvation, were misunderstood? How might our cultural imaginations hide the meaning of the Bible rather than revealing it? By tearing down misunderstandings, Wagenfuhr builds up a broad overview of the story of the Bible that illustrates a more mature and more exciting vision for Christian faith(fulness) than is commonly assumed.
A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations Together With A History Of The Language And An English Grammar By Samuel Johnson Whith Numerous Corrections And With The Addition Of Several Thousand Words By The Rev H J Todd In Four Volumes Vol 1 4
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1818
A Dictionary Of The English Language In Which The Words Are Deduced From Their Originals And Illustrated In Their Different Significations Together With A History Of The Language And An English Grammar By Samuel Johnson Whith Numerous Corrections And With The Addition Of Several Thousand Words By The Rev H J Todd In Four Volumes Vol 1 4 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1818 with categories.
The Words Of The Lord Jesus
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Author : Rudolf Stier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
The Words Of The Lord Jesus written by Rudolf Stier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with categories.
Queen Anna S Nevv Vvorld Of Words Or Dictionarie Of The Italian And English Tongues Collected And Newly Much Augmented By Iohn Florio Reader Of The Italian Vnto The Soueraigne Maiestie Of Anna Crowned Queene Of England Scotland France And Ireland C And One Of The Gentlemen Of Hir Royall Priuie Chamber Whereunto Are Added Certaine Necessarie Rules And Short Obseruations For The Italian Tongue
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Author : John Florio
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1611
Queen Anna S Nevv Vvorld Of Words Or Dictionarie Of The Italian And English Tongues Collected And Newly Much Augmented By Iohn Florio Reader Of The Italian Vnto The Soueraigne Maiestie Of Anna Crowned Queene Of England Scotland France And Ireland C And One Of The Gentlemen Of Hir Royall Priuie Chamber Whereunto Are Added Certaine Necessarie Rules And Short Obseruations For The Italian Tongue written by John Florio and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1611 with Italian language categories.
The Fall Of Language
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Author : Alexander Stern
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-08
The Fall Of Language written by Alexander Stern and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-08 with Philosophy categories.
In the most comprehensive account to date of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of language, Alexander Stern explores the nature of meaning by putting Benjamin in dialogue with Wittgenstein. Known largely for his essays on culture, aesthetics, and literature, Walter Benjamin also wrote on the philosophy of language. This early work is famously obscure and considered hopelessly mystical by some. But for Alexander Stern, it contains important insights and anticipates—in some respects surpasses—the later thought of a central figure in the philosophy of language, Ludwig Wittgenstein. As described in The Fall of Language, Benjamin argues that “language as such” is not a means for communicating an extra-linguistic reality but an all-encompassing medium of expression in which everything shares. Borrowing from Johann Georg Hamann’s understanding of God’s creation as communication to humankind, Benjamin writes that all things express meanings, and that human language does not impose meaning on the objective world but translates meanings already extant in it. He describes the transformations that language as such undergoes while making its way into human language as the “fall of language.” This is a fall from “names”—language that responds mimetically to reality—to signs that designate reality arbitrarily. While Benjamin’s approach initially seems alien to Wittgenstein’s, both reject a designative understanding of language; both are preoccupied with Russell’s paradox; and both try to treat what Wittgenstein calls “the bewitchment of our understanding by means of language.” Putting Wittgenstein’s work in dialogue with Benjamin’s sheds light on its historical provenance and on the turn in Wittgenstein’s thought. Although the two philosophies diverge in crucial ways, in their comparison Stern finds paths for understanding what language is and what it does.
A Series Of Articles And Discourses
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Author : Simon Clough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843
A Series Of Articles And Discourses written by Simon Clough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with Sermons, American categories.
The English Dialect Dictionary Being The Complete Vocabulary Of All Dialect Words Still In Use Or Known To Have Been In Use During The Last Two Hundred Years
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Author : Joseph Wright
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 1905
The English Dialect Dictionary Being The Complete Vocabulary Of All Dialect Words Still In Use Or Known To Have Been In Use During The Last Two Hundred Years written by Joseph Wright and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1905 with History categories.
Words That Tear The Flesh
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Author : Stephen Alan Baragona
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-01-22
Words That Tear The Flesh written by Stephen Alan Baragona and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-22 with History categories.
The rhetorical trope of irony is well-trod territory, with books and essays devoted to its use by a wide range of medieval and Renaissance writers, from the Beowulf-poet and Chaucer to Boccaccio and Shakespeare; however, the use of sarcasm, the "flesh tearing" form of irony, in the same literature has seldom been studied at length or in depth. Sarcasm is notoriously difficult to pick out in a written text, since it relies so much on tone of voice and context. This is the first book-length study of medieval and Renaissance sarcasm. Its fourteen essays treat instances in a range of genres, both sacred and secular, and of cultures from Anglo-Saxon to Arabic, where the combination of circumstance and word choice makes it absolutely clear that the speaker, whether a character or a narrator, is being sarcastic. Essays address, among other things, the clues writers give that sarcasm is at work, how it conforms to or deviates from contemporary rhetorical theories, what role it plays in building character or theme, and how sarcasm conforms to the Christian milieu of medieval Europe, and beyond to medieval Arabic literature. The collection thus illuminates a half-hidden but surprisingly common early literary technique for modern readers.