A timely, clear, and valuable book, which offers a masterful overview of the many passionately held positions on the origins and development of language.
The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece
By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should-if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from.
The most comprehensive single-volume reference of its kind, "The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Fourth Edition" has been completely updated and expanded and now contains definitions and origins of more than 15,000 words and expressions. This encyclopedia features anecdotes and information on the development of a wide range of words, including slang, proverbs, animal and plant names, place names, nicknames, historical expressions, foreign language expressions, and phrases from literature.
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On Second Thoughts by Simon Brett
Fiction and humour writer Brett invents what might have been found in the imaginary wastepaper baskets of the famous and great from history. Things could have been very different if King Arthur had figured out the seating plan for a square table, if Picasso hadn't received the wrong prescription for his spectacles or if Ronald Reagan hadn't misspelled 'unclear' as 'nuclear' in his lost letter to Gorbachev
World Changing Ideas 20 innovative ways to build a cleaner, healthier, smarter world Plus: • Ancient Greek Computer Sophisticated Technology Tracked the Heavens • Arctic Climate Threat Methane from Thawing Permafrost • Lessons from the Lost City What Undersea Vents Reveal about Life's Origins • Special Photo Essay Microscopic Life Up Close • Portrait of a Black Hole
