A Word in Your Ear
Title | A Word in Your Ear PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Rosenbloom |
Publisher | Eric Rosenbloom |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2005-04-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1419609300 |
'A sine qua non for Joyceans' (Clarence Sterling). 'Certainly the best intro to the Wake I've seen' (Andrew H. Blom). This lively and readable essay provides essential background information and helpful reading techniques.
A Word in Your Ear
Title | A Word in Your Ear PDF eBook |
Author | Monroe Spears |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2002-12-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780807127230 |
A Word in Your Ear brings together forty years of poetry by one of the most influential literary critics of our time. Monroe Spears, the first mentor to James Dickey, was an internationally renowned scholar of Modernism who in addition to writing his own many essays, reviews, and books brought distinguished poetry, fiction, and criticism into print as editor of the Sewanee Review. In this important collection, he demonstrates that his eye for discerning excellent poetry was paired with a remarkable talent for writing it. Employing a rich variety of verse forms and subjects, Spears reflects on the passage of time—specifically, the maturation from boyhood to old age—and its effect on his view of himself and the world. “To go from adult to old man / Is truly to change into another species, / Apart as a lame duck, having no space in the future.” Though gloomy in itself, this theme is often treated with levity, which makes the ominous secrets whispered in the ear not only bearable but also enjoyable. Spears’s poems reveal an often wry conversationalist whose voice ranges from public wit to private confidant. In “Pas de Deux,” the poet imagines a beautiful ballerina and her romantic dance partner behind the scenes: “Backstage, she’s horse-faced, duck-butted, hating men, / While he loves nothing else. They hate each other. / . . . Which of us would not rather / Believe them onstage? Their image there’s not false, / but twin / To what we all produce: illusion is our mother.” Because Spears did not devote himself solely to the practice of poetry, his body of work is regrettably small. But with his final collection, he confirms a truth confessed in the appropriately titled “A Poet Hidden”: “He always knew at heart he was a poet.”
A Word in Your Ear
Title | A Word in Your Ear PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Ross |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2014-04-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 144818746X |
A collection of creative stories from the imagination of Tony Ross. Inspired by memories from his wartime childhood and throughout his eventful life, Tony Ross’s short stories are full of curious places and mysterious characters. Each story is brought to life with his vivid pictures. From bullfighters to ghosts, sea captains to wanderers, Tony’s stories are brimful of spooky encounters and quirky moments, sure to have readers laughing one moment, and hiding under the covers the next!
A Word in Your Ear
Title | A Word in Your Ear PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Howard |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
As in Howard's other colletions, this book consists of witty and learned essays on various aspects of the English language.
A Word in Your Ear
Title | A Word in Your Ear PDF eBook |
Author | Ivor John Carnegie Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | |
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Title | Is That a Fish in Your Ear? PDF eBook |
Author | David Bellos |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2011-10-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0865478724 |
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes; we wouldn't even be able to put together flat-pack furniture. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. Among many other things, David Bellos asks: What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? But the biggest question Bellos asks is this: How do we ever really know that we've understood what anybody else says—in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty, and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about how we comprehend other people and shows us how, ultimately, translation is another name for the human condition.
A Word in Your Ear
Title | A Word in Your Ear PDF eBook |
Author | John Young |
Publisher | |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780905192406 |