Studies in Words - Brossura

Lewis, C. S.

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ISBN 10: 1107688655 ISBN 13: 9781107688650

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Riassunto

Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analysing their functions. It doubles as an absorbing and entertaining study of verbal communication, its pleasures and problems. The issues revealed are essential to all who read and communicate thoughtfully, and are handled here by a masterful exponent and analyst of the English language.

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Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature.

Contenuti:

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Nature; 3. Sad; 4. Wit; 5. Free; 6. Sense; 7. Simple; 8. Conscience and conscious; 9. World; 10. Life; 11. I dare say; 12. At the fringe of language; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107688655
• ISBN 13: 9781107688650
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 352