Author: Manuel Hager
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557155142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521398312
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.

Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster Incorporated
ISBN: 9780877798507
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus' offers over 157,000 synonyms, antonyms, related and contrasted words and idioms, all alphabetically organised with brief definitions of shared meanings.

Author: Zenón Luis-Martínez
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004489606
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Departing from earlier studies which regarded incest as a literary topos or dramatic metaphor foregrounding political, social, or legal issues, Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy argues that the presence of incest on the Renaissance stage is a strategy for the enactment of the spectator’s tragic experience. Incest is explored neither as a sin nor as a crime, but as an “unspeakable” experience filtered through dramatic words and deeds. The incitement of desire, visual pleasure, and unconscious fantasy, as well as traumatic rejection, pain, and horror, are all aspects of this paradoxical and uncanny experience. Aristotelian theory of tragedy, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Michel Foucault’s notions of the deployment of sexuality and alliance, concur in the analysis of plays where incest is a central or a secondary motif – Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Beaumont and Fletcher’s Cupid’s Revenge, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi – and others where incest is an effect of language and mise-en-scène – Sackville and Norton’s Gorboduc, Shakespeare’s King Lear. The variety of topics and the combination of critical perspectives makes In Words and Deeds an attractive book for students and teachers of Renaissance drama, as well as for those with a special interest in psychoanalytic and other new theoretical approaches to the literary text.

Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Studies in Words" by C. S. Lewis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Hagberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198841213
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood pursues three main questions: What role does literature play in the constitution of a human being? What is the connection between the language we see at work in imaginative fiction and the language we develop to describe ourselves? And is something more powerful than just description at work -- that is, does self-descriptive or autobiographical language itself play an active role in shaping and solidifying our identities? This adventurous book suggests that interdisciplinary work interweaving philosophy and literature can answer these questions. Main sections investigate the relational model of the self derived from American pragmatism, the sense of rightness that can attach to descriptions of ourselves and our actions, the analogy between interpreting works of art and the interpretation of persons, the special power of literature as a self-compositional tool and the "architecture" of self-narratives and the corresponding growth of self-understanding, what we can learn from cautionary tales concerning the tragic lack of self-knowledge, the possibility of "rewriting" and "rereading" the self, and overall, the assembly of real-life structures of self-definition through our reflective engagement with literature. Throughout, the book develops a model of active, self-constitutive literary reading that provides language for, and sharpens, self-individuation and sensibility. Conjoining a relational conception of selfhood to a narrative conception of self-understanding, Living in Words makes a powerful claim that aesthetic experience and our engagement with the arts is a far more serious matter in human life and society than it in some quarters is taken to be.

Author: Ayushi Jawanpuria
Publisher: PEN BREW PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 8195041825
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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What is a Devil?, Devil Is An Evil To Protect The World From Evil Forces. This question can be best answered by the ones who were humiliated, cheated, harrased, bullied, seen the worst of life, and take a big gamble with anger in heart and a revenge in will to face anything to fight with evil forces. Like A Sword Can Clash With A Sword, Then To Clash With Evil We Need To Be Devil. Devils come in form of humans, animals, storms etc. We Know that “Pen Is Mightier Than Sword” And “Words Are Venomous Weapons.” Devil teaches us to fight for yourself, never play your victim card, do good, if you see someone doing a evil deed eliminate it, never misuse or underuse your power that you have within,you're a born winner, just face the hardships to get the winner out. If a Devil pens a Letter and Delivers a speech, the whole world gets united to fight. When people the way of Devil's wall, talk and way of thinking, that devil and his acts becomes a trend, a trend to change the world. This anthology is perfectly tailored and a gift for the readers where each word portrayed there lives a devil in itself. While reading It can make readers feel the want to achieve something, get their adrenaline rush out, get their energy and get blessed with all the powers like a devil is blessed with.

Author: Cornelia Herbert
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889455505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Language has long been considered independent from emotions. In the last few years however research has accumulated empirical evidence against this theoretical belief of a purely cognitive-based foundation of language. In particular, through research on emotional word processing it has been shown, that processing of emotional words activates emotional brain structures, elicits emotional facial expressions and modulates action tendencies of approach and avoidance, probably in a similar manner as processing of non-verbal emotional stimuli does. In addition, it has been shown that emotional content is already processed in the visual cortex in a facilitated manner which suggests that processing of emotional language content is able to circumvent in-depth semantic analysis. Yet, this is only one side of the coin. Very recent research putting words into context suggests that language may also construe emotions and that by studying word processing one can provide a window to one’s own feelings. All in all, the empirical observations support the thesis of a close relationship between language and emotions at the level of word meaning as a specific evolutionary achievement of the human species. As such, this relationship seems to be different from the one between emotions and speech, where emotional meaning is conveyed by nonverbal features of the voice. But what does this relationship between written words and emotions theoretically imply for the processing of emotional information? The present Research Topic and its related articles aim to provide answers to this question. This book comprises several experimental studies investigating the brain structures and the time course of emotional word processing. Included are studies examining the affective core dimensions underlying affective word processing and studies that show how these basic affective dimensions influence word processing in general as well as the interaction between words, feelings and (expressive) behavior. In addition, new impetus comes from studies that on the one hand investigate how task-, sublexical and intrapersonal factors influence emotional word processing and on the other hand extend emotional word processing to the domains of social context and self-related processing. Finally, future perspectives are outlined including research on emotion and language acquisition, culture and multilingualism. In summary, this textbook offers scientists from different disciplines insight into the neurophysiological, behavioral and subjective mechanisms underlying emotion and language interactions. It gives new impulses to existing theories on the embodiment of language and emotion and provides new ways of looking at emotion-cognition interactions.

Author: Fizza Younis
Publisher: Fizza Younis
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Stories that stay with you long after you have closed the book… Some stories are dark while others are lighthearted. Sometimes, they’re challenging and at other times, accepting. Words that made you question your perception of life and look within yourself to find the meaning you have longed for. With diverse and relatable characters, each story is unique. Divided by theme, the four short story collections in the bundle include: Book 1: Soul Seeks the Truth Book 2: When Love Fails Book 3: Monsters & Mysteries Book 4: Dear Earth with Love: & Other Stories

Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877793700
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1184

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Find the right word every time with this indispensable guide! Concise definitions pinpoint meanings shared by synonyms. More than 275,000 word choices, examples, and explanations. Sample sentences and phrases for each synonym at its own entry clarify how words are used in context. Alphabetical lists may also include related words, idiomatic phrases, near antonyms, and antonyms. A perfect companion to the best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Ed.