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Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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An Index to Familiar Quotations Selected Principally from British Authors
Author: An Index to Familiar Quotations Selected Principally from British Authors, with Parallel Passages from Various Writers Ancient and Modern
Author: J. C. GrocottPublisher: Liverpool : Howell
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Unwept
Author: Tracy HickmanPublisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429955929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Unwept -- the beginning of a spellbinding new trilogy by Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman bestselling co-creators of Dragonlance and Ravenloft Gamin, Maine, is a remote seaside town where everyone seems to know Ellis Harkington better than she knows herself—but she doesn't remember any of them. Unknown events have robbed Ellis of her memory. Concerned individuals, who claim to be friends and loved ones, insist that she simply needs to recuperate, and that her memories may return in time. But, for her own sake—so they claim—they refuse to divulge what has brought her to this state. Ellis finds herself adrift in a town of ominous mysteries, cryptic hints, and disturbingly familiar strangers. The Nightbirds, a clique of fashionable young men and women, claim her as one of their own, but who can she truly trust? And what of the phantom suitor who visits her in her dreams? Is he a memory, a figment of her imagination, or a living nightmare beyond rational explanation?Only her lost past holds the answers she seeks—if she can uncover its secrets before she falls prey to an unearthly killer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors, with parallel passages from various writers, by J.C. Grocott
Author: John Cooper GrocottUnity
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
A Patch of Pansies
Author: Edmund Vance CookeLook Round for Poetry
Author: Brian McGrathPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823299821
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. Look Round for Poetry transforms Wordsworth’s idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry’s untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically. Once one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, McGrath reads poetic examples of understatement alongside market demands for more; the downturned brow as a figure for economic catastrophe; Romantic cloud metaphors alongside the rhetoric of cloud computing; the election of the dead as a poetical, and not just a political, act; and poetic investigations into the power of prepositions as theories of political assembly. For poetry to retain a vital power, McGrath argues, we need to become ignorant of what we think we mean by it. In the process we may discover critical vocabularies that engage the complexity of social life all around us.
Encyclopaedia Perthensis
Author: Steps to Elegant Translation from E to C (with illustrative sentences in simplified Chinese)
Author: Shaoxian WenPublisher: Everflow Publications
ISBN: 9888174428
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Most of the existing books about translation principles and techniques tend to lay special stress on tedious theoretical expositions, which is very abstract and uninteresting. Actually what most people need are practical translation technique books with elicitation methods, and such books with elicitation methods are helpful to them, i.e. helpful to most people. However, it is a pity that books of this kind have not been available so far. The author’s aim of writing this book is to remedy this lamentable situation with his practical experience gained from his teaching and translating work over the past several decades. The problem of translation techniques is mainly a problem of how to meet the three requirements, namely, “fidelity”, “fluency” and “elegance” put forward by Chinese ancient scholar Yan Fu. As a matter of fact, it is not difficult to basically meet these three requirements only if you have mastered the knack of doing translation provided for by this guide book. The compilation principle of this book is, by completely getting rid of those abstract, tedious, very dull and dry theoretical expositions as well as those grammatical terms difficult for people to understand, to sum up the most useful translation methods in a simple, concise and direct way, supported by a great number of meticulously selected typical example sentences for illustration, some of which are quoted from famous English and American literary works, in an attempt to pass on to the learners the knack of doing translation which they have never been told about. When you have mastered such a knack, you will find translation work a pleasure rather than a burdensome job. Steps to Elegant Translation from E to C is the first easy-to-learn practical guide book of this kind. Its targeted readers are those at intermediate English and Chinese level, including high school and college students. The book will directly help them to raise their translation proficiency effectively. To those who are interested in translation, this book can help them to easily solve their problems in connection with translation. To the professional translators and teachers teaching translation course, this book is of constructive referential value to them. Foreigners learning Chinese or learning translation from E to C with intermediate Chinese level will find it a substantial help to them.
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