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Essays on Definition

Author : Juan C. Sager

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 41,39 MB

Release : 2000-01-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9789027223272

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Book Description

This collection of essays on definitions, from Plato and Aristotle to modern times, assembles interesting, sometimes less widely known and controversial texts. They examine the subject from the point of view of philosophy which is essential for a theory of terminology seeking to establish the relationship between concepts and terms. These essays deal mainly with theoretical issues but they also consider the practice of defining and therefore serve as background to all manner of studies in terminology. In addition they form a useful complement to the better known discussions of definitions in lexicography.



The Definition of Literature and Other Essays

Author : W. W. Robson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 32,32 MB

Release : 1984-07-26

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780521318471

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Professor Robson considers particular works and authors in the light of the preceding discussion of critical principles.



Essays and Arguments: A Handbook for Writing Student Essays

Author : Ian Johnston

Publisher : Broadview Press

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 37,57 MB

Release : 2015-04-28

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1770485651

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How does one help undergraduate students learn quickly how to produce effectively organized, persuasive, well-reasoned essays? This book offers a straightforward, systematic introduction to some of the key elements of the construction of arguments in essay form. The focus here is on practical advice that will prove immediately useful to students—recommended procedures are emphasized, and detailed examples of academic and student writing are provided throughout. The book introduces the basics of argumentation before moving on to the structure and organization of essays. Planning and outlining the essay, writing strong thesis statements, organizing coherent paragraphs, and writing effective introductions and conclusions are among the subjects discussed. A separate section concisely explores issues specific to essays about literary works.



The Variety of Values

Author : Susan R. Wolf

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 40,42 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0195332814

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For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love." Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency ignores or distorts the significance of such values as love, beauty, and truth, and neglects the importance of meaningfulness as a dimension of the good life. These essays show us how a self-conscious recognition of the variety of values leads to new understandings of the point, the content, and the limits of morality and to new ways of thinking about happiness and well-being.



The Making of the American Essay

Author : John D'Agata

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 821 pages

File Size : 38,94 MB

Release : 2016-03-15

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1555977340

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"Now, with "The making of the American essay' the editor includes selections ranging from Anne Bradstreet's secular prayers to Washington Irving's satires, Emily Dickinson's love letters to Kenneth Goldsmith's catalog's, Gertrude Stein's portraits to James Baldwin's and Norman Mailer's mediations on boxing. In this volume the editor uncovers new stories in the American essay's past and shows us that some of the most fiercely daring writers in the American literary canon have turned to the essay in order to produce some of our culture's most exhilarating art."-- book jacket.



Relatedness, Self-definition, and Mental Representation

Author : John Samuel Auerbach

Publisher : Psychology Press

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 44,64 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Clinical psychology

ISBN : 9781583912898

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This book presents chapters by Dr. Blatt's many colleagues and students that explore questions of relatedness, self-definition, and mental representation, and shows us that psychoanalysis and empirical research can be combined.



Politics and the English Language

Author : George Orwell

Publisher : Renard Press Ltd

Page : pages

File Size : 31,91 MB

Release : 2021-01-01

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1913724271

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times



Musical Style and Social Meaning

Author : DerekB. Scott

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 22,37 MB

Release : 2017-07-05

Category : History

ISBN : 1351556878

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Why do we feel justified in using adjectives such as romantic, erotic, heroic, melancholic, and a hundred others when speaking about music? How do we locate these meanings within particular musical styles? These are questions that have occupied Derek Scott's thoughts and driven his critical musicological research for many years. In this selection of essays, dating from 1995-2010, he returns time and again to examining how conventions of representation arise and how they become established. Among the themes of the collection are social class, ideology, national identity, imperialism, Orientalism, race, the sacred and profane, modernity and postmodernity, and the vexed relationship of art and entertainment. A wide variety of musical styles is discussed, ranging from jazz and popular song to the symphonic repertoire and opera.



A Raisin in the Sun

Author : Lorraine Hansberry

Publisher :

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 37,59 MB

Release : 2016-11-01

Category :

ISBN : 9781781397398

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"A Raisin in the Sun" reflects Lorraine Hansberry's childhood experiences in segregated Chicago. This electrifying masterpiece has enthralled audiences and has been heaped with critical accolades. "The play that changed American theatre forever" - The New York Times. Edition Description



The Meanings of Landscape

Author : Kenneth R. Olwig

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 329 pages

File Size : 25,1 MB

Release : 2019-02-12

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1351053515

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Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery, but this reading captures only a narrow representation of landscape meaning today. This book positions landscape as a concept shaped through the centuries, evolving from place to place to provide nuanced interpretations of landscape meaning. The essays are woven together to gather an international approach to understanding the past and present importance of landscape as place and polity, as designed space, as nature, and as an influential factor in the shaping of ideas in a just social and physical environment. Aimed at students, scholars, and researchers in landscape and beyond, this illustrated volume traces the idea of landscape from the ancient polis and theatre through to the present day.