Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed forever by two very different meetings one with an escaped convict and the other with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. And who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune?
Vulgar, Sentimental, and Liberal Criticism F. J. Furnivall and T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare and Chaucer.
The ‘‘ordinary emotional person, experiencing a work of art, has a mixed critical and creative reaction. It is made up of comment and opinion, and also new emotions . . . vaguely applied to his own life. [For this] sentimental person . . . a work of art arouses all sorts of emotions which have nothing to do with that work of art whatever, but are accidents of personal association.’’
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Unless you have a reasonably good background in linguistics, you'll find this excellent book much easier to read than to listen to. Olsher is not to blame; he reads clearly and at a (slightly rapid) conversational speed. Pinker aims for the educated lay reader, using wit and popular metaphor to clarify his meanings and bring abstruse linguistic concepts to life. But his sentences are dense; you need to reread them and think them through. And the jargon, though clearly defined, requires time and thought to absorb:
Person to Person Third Edition 2: Student Book (CD only)Now available in three levels, Person to Person focuses on the language functions required for everyday life activities such as shopping, ordering in a restaurant, and arranging to meet a friend. The lessons are based on realistic conversations, and task-based listening sections consolidate language acquisition.
Whether we are conscious of it or not, in any conversation there are actually two languages being spoken. One is the verbal communication we are all familiar with, but the other--and maybe more important, is the more subtle collection of gestures, expressions, and movements that constitute body language. In this illustrated guide, authors Gerard Nierenberg and Henry Calero decode this largely unexplored form of expression--revealing how to look past words to determine what’s really being said.
