Studies in WordsHarper Collins, 05/11/2013 - 100 من الصفحات 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 analyzing 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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... poet, we are deceiving ourselves. If we reject as 'mere philology' every attempt to restore for us his real poem, we are safeguarding the deceit. Of course any man is entitled to say he prefers the poems he makes for himself out of his ...
... poet, we are deceiving ourselves. If we reject as 'mere philology' every attempt to restore for us his real poem, we are safeguarding the deceit. Of course any man is entitled to say he prefers the poems he makes for himself out of his ...
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... poetry which is so written that it cannot be fully received unless all the possible senses of words are operative in the reader's mind. Whether there was any such poetry before the present century—whether all old poetry thus read is ...
... poetry which is so written that it cannot be fully received unless all the possible senses of words are operative in the reader's mind. Whether there was any such poetry before the present century—whether all old poetry thus read is ...
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... poetry, we can use their definition as evidence of what the word really meant when they wrote. The fact that they define it at all is itself a ground for scepticism. Unless we are writing a dictionary, or a textbook of some technical ...
... poetry, we can use their definition as evidence of what the word really meant when they wrote. The fact that they define it at all is itself a ground for scepticism. Unless we are writing a dictionary, or a textbook of some technical ...
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... poets. The curious expression 'a scientific fact' may originally have meant a fact that is literally scientific or 'sciencemaking'—a key fact whose discovery makes possible a wide range of further discoveries. But most modern users, I ...
... poets. The curious expression 'a scientific fact' may originally have meant a fact that is literally scientific or 'sciencemaking'—a key fact whose discovery makes possible a wide range of further discoveries. But most modern users, I ...
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... poetry on the assumption that it was realised, such a man offers a critique—and an unconscious critique—of the court's actual ethos, which no one can resent. It is not flattery, but it flatters. As they say a woman becomes more ...
... poetry on the assumption that it was realised, such a man offers a critique—and an unconscious critique—of the court's actual ethos, which no one can resent. It is not flattery, but it flatters. As they say a woman becomes more ...
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Sad with Gravis | |
Wit with Ingenium | |
Free with Eleutherios Liberal Frank etc | |
Sense with Sentence Sensibility and Sensible | |
Simple | |
World | |
Life | |
Dare | |
At the Fringe of Language | |
Notes | |
About the Author | |
Also by C S Lewis Copyright About the Publisher | |
Conscience and Conscious | |
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actual adjective aion already become beginning believe better branch centuries certainly character comes common conscience conscious consciring context contrast course criticism dangerous dare describe distinction doubt earth emotion English examples exist expression fact feel finally give Greek hand Hence human idea important kind knowledge kosmos language later Latin learned less linguistic live man’s mean meant merely mind moral nature nature d.s. never noticed object once opposite originally particular passage perhaps period phusis poet poetry possible present probably question reader reason reference says seems semantic sense sensible sensus shows simple sometimes sort speaker speaks suggest sure talk tell term things thought translate true turn universe usage usually villain whole word writes