Quotology

Author : Willis Goth Regier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803217522

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Quotology by Willis Goth Regier Pdf

Erasmus advised readers to learn quotations by heart and copy them everywhere: write them in the front and back of books; inscribe them on rings and cups; paint them on doors and walls, ?even on the glass of a window.? Emerson noted that ?in Europe, every church is a kind of book or bible, so covered is it with inscriptions and pictures.? In Arabic script as tall as a man, the Koran is quoted on the walls and domes of mosques. ø We quote to admire, provoke, commemorate, dispute, play, and inspire. Quotations signal class, club, clique, and alma mater. They animate wit, relay prophecies, guide meditation, and accessorize fashion. ø In Quotology Willis Goth Regier draws on world literature and contemporary events to show how vital quotations are, how they are collected and organized, and how deceptive they can be. He probes all these aspects, identifying fifty-nine types of quotations, including misquotations and anonymous sayings. Following the logic of quotology, Quotology concludes with famous last words.

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781906924331

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Why Do We Quote? by Ruth Finnegan Pdf

Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .

Author : Alexej Lochmatow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000958034

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Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland by Alexej Lochmatow Pdf

This book explores the public debates among scholars that took place in Early Cold War Poland. The author challenges the traditional narrative on the ‘Sovietisation’ of Central and Eastern European countries and proposes to see this process not as a spread of Marxist ideology or a Soviet institutional model, but as an attempt to force scholars to rapidly adopt new academic and civic virtues. This book argues that this project failed to succeed in Poland and shows how the struggle against these new virtues united both Marxist and non-Marxist scholars. While covering the arc of Polish scholarly debates, the author invites the reader to go beyond Poland and to use ‘virtues’ as a framework for reflections on both the foundations of scholarly practice and the ‘nature’ of authoritarian regimes with their ambition to teach scholars how to be ‘virtuous.’

Author : Claudia Stokes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812253535

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Old Style by Claudia Stokes Pdf

We celebrate innovation and experimentation, but Claudia Stokes reminds us that nineteenth-century American writers instead valued familiarity and traditionalism, which provided reliable markers of literary quality. Old Style examines the varied uses and expressions of unoriginality, which helped credential marginalized writers.

Author : Flavius Frasincar,Ashwin Ittoo,Le Minh Nguyen,Elisabeth Métais
Publisher : Springer
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319595696

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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems by Flavius Frasincar,Ashwin Ittoo,Le Minh Nguyen,Elisabeth Métais Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2017, held in Liège, Belgium, in June 2017. The 22 full papers, 19 short papers, and 16 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: feature engineering; information extraction; information extraction from resource-scarce languages; natural language processing applications; neural language models and applications; opinion mining and sentiment analysis; question answering systems and applications; semantics-based models and applications; and text summarization.

Author : Joseph M. Bochenski,Gerhart Niemeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015008355490

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Handbook on Communism by Joseph M. Bochenski,Gerhart Niemeyer Pdf

Text and pictures present families of different kinds of animals doing their ordinary activities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015014431970

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Soviet Studies; by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Academy of Political and Social Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Russia
ISBN : UCSC:32106000786225

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Russia Since Stalin: Old Trends and New Problems by American Academy of Political and Social Science Pdf

Author : American Academy of Political and Social Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Africa
ISBN : PSU:000030333260

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Russia Since Stalin by American Academy of Political and Social Science Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Political science
ISBN : UOM:39076000006804

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Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Laibman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791480854

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Deep History by David Laibman Pdf

Blends insights from several disciplines to offer a general theory of social evolution.

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691155302

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The Quotable Kierkegaard by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Kierkegaard quotations ever published "Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven—in the spring at the earth."—Søren Kierkegaard The father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection of some 800 quotations, the reader will find dazzling bon mots next to words of life-changing power. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a broad selection of his wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work. Organized by topic, this volume covers notable Kierkegaardian concerns such as anxiety, despair, existence, irony, and the absurd, but also erotic love, the press, busyness, and the comic. Here readers will encounter both well-known quotations ("Life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward") and obscure ones ("Beware false prophets who come to you in wolves' clothing but inwardly are sheep--i.e., the phrasemongers"). Those who spend time in these pages will discover the writer who said, "my grief is my castle," but who also taught that "the best defense against hypocrisy is love." Illuminating and delightful, this engaging book also provides a substantial portrait of one of the most influential of modern thinkers. Gathers some 800 quotations Drawn from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings Includes an introduction, a brief account and timeline of Kierkegaard's life, a guide to further reading, and an index

Author : J. M. Porter,Richard Vernon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000706659

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Unity, Plurality and Politics by J. M. Porter,Richard Vernon Pdf

First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as 'cultural'; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed 'political'. But culture and politics do not, therefore, comprise two wholly distinct zones or orders of experience, the one marked by unity, the other by plurality. Unity and plurality interpenetrate. These insights, which derive from the thinking of Herder, have been fundamental to the work of F. M. Barnard. In this volume a number of scholars contribute, in Barnardian vein, reflections on the tensions between unity and plurality in the history of ideas. The central underlying question is, in essence, ’what is the context of political life?’ The question remains of more importance than any single answer.

Author : Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : HMH
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547568928

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Louis Agassiz by Christoph Irmscher Pdf

“This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all.” —The New York Times Book Review Charismatic and controversial Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz took America by storm in the early nineteenth century, becoming a defining force in American science. Yet today, many don’t know the complex story behind this revolutionary figure. At a young age, Agassiz—zoologist, glaciologist, and paleontologist—was invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, and he never left. An obsessive pioneer in field research, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike—and entered into collaboration with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth, a science writer in her own right and first president of Radcliffe College. But there was a dark side to his reputation as well. Biographer Christoph Irmscher reveals unflinching evidence of Agassiz’s racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans at the time looked to men of science to mediate race policy. He also explores Agassiz’s stubborn resistance to evolution, his battles with a student—renowned naturalist Henry James Clark—and how he became a source of endless bemusement for Charles Darwin and esteemed botanist Asa Gray. “A wonderful . . . biography,” both inspiring and cautionary, it is for anyone interested in the history of American ideas (The Christian Science Monitor). “A model of what a talented and erudite literary scholar can do with a scientific subject.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Author : Benjamin E. Sax
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004680210

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Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation by Benjamin E. Sax Pdf

This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book searches for the recovery of concealed and lost meaning in the community of letters, sacred scripture, the collecting of books, storytelling, and the life of liturgy. It also explores how the legacy of Goethe can be used to develop new strata of religious and Jewish thought. We learn how quotation is the binding tissue that links language and thought, modernity and tradition, religion and secularism as a way of being in the world.