The emotions a character feels--Hamlet's vengefulness when he realizes his uncle has killed his father, Anna Karenina's despair when she feels she can longer sustain her life, Marcel's joy when he tastes a piece of madeleine cake--are vital aspects of the experience of fiction. As Keith Oatley points out, it's not just the emotions of literary characters such as these in which we are interested. If we didn't ourselves experience emotions, we wouldn't go to the play, or watch the film, or read the book.
A magical memoir about a singular childhood in England and India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kelly’s pinup, and a grandmother who was not only a princess but could also argue the finer points of naval law. Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she was born at the very end of the Roaring Twenties.
This workbook looks at the history of the English language in order to explain the English that is used today. It covers the development of the English language from the 5th century to the present day and contains a "mini-corpus" of texts, used for exercises and to illustrate points raised in the commentary. The book introduces key linguistic concepts, provides "discussion points" to generate debate, and involves readers in collecting and analyzing their own data.
This work is a dictionary of words which cause genuine difficulty in definition and spelling. Each entry is followed by a simple phonetic pronunciation guide, and disputed points of usage are clarified.
Attention authors! Are you sick of being stuck in a creative rut? The 7 Points of Write is the cure for what ails you. In The 7 Points of Write, you'll discover a totally unorthodox approach to unlocking your creative potential, which will allow you to take your ideas from concept to paper and hook your readers from page one! Learn to annihilate writer's block, and discover true secrets to tapping into your creative writing stream and a world of unlimited ideas for every genre of fiction possible. This is NOT another "writing guideline" book. You will not learn when/where to place commas or how to structure sentences.
