Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American letters
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Collection of the Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American letters
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Familiar Letters on Important Occasions
Author: Samuel RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
One Hundred and Seventythree Letters Written for Particular Friends, on the Most Important Occasions
Author: ... RichardsonThe Familiar Letter in Early Modern English
Author: Susan M. FitzmauricePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027251150
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
Letters written to and for particular friends, on the most important occasions. Directing not only the requisite style and forms to be observed in writing familiar letters; but how to think and act justly and prudently, in the common concerns of human life, etc. By Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel RichardsonLetters from Two Brothers Serving in the War
Author: Warren Hapgood FreemanPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Familiar Letters on important subjects, wrote from the year 1618 to 1650. By J. Howell. The tenth edition
Author: James HowellThe Complete Letter-writer
Author: Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books
Author: HowellPseudonymous Shakespeare
Author: Penny McCarthyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351907964
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
An investigation into modes of early modern English literary 'indirection,' this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In the course of unmasking 'R.L.', McCarthy scrutinizes devices employed by writers in the Sidney coterie: punning, often across languages; repetitio-insistence on a sound, or hiding two persons 'under one hood'; disingenuous juxtaposition; evocation of original context; differential spelling (intended and significant). Among McCarthy's stunning-but solidly underpinned-conclusions are: Shakespeare used the pseudonym 'R.L.' among other pseudonyms; one, 'William Smith', was also his 'alias' in life; Shakespeare was at the heart of the Sidney circle, whose literary programme was hostile to Elizabeth I; and his work, composed mainly from the late 1570s to the early 90s, occasionally 'embedded' in the work of others, was covertly alluded to more often than has been recognized.