Unreliable narrator. An unreliable narrator is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised.[1] The term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C.
Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction.[1][2] While unreliable narrators are almost by definition first-person narrators, arguments have been made for the existence of unreliable second- and third-person narrators, especially within the context of film and televison. 12 Lonely Negative Words. Are you disgusted, disgruntled and disheveled? Well, unfortunately you’re never going to be gusted, gruntled or sheveled. Disgusted, disgruntled and disheveled are what you might call “lonely negatives.” They’re negative words whose positive partners have vanished or never existed in the first place. 1.
50 Old British Dialect Words to Incorporate into Conversation. In 1905, the Oxford University Press published the sixth and final volume of The English Dialect Dictionary, a compilation of local British words and phrases dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The EDD set out to record all those words used too sparsely and too locally to make the cut in the Oxford English Dictionary, and by 1905, more than 70,000 entries from right across the British Isles had been compiled, defined, and explained. The entire enterprise was personally overseen (and, in its early stages at least, partly funded) by Joseph Wright, a self-taught linguist and etymologist who went from attending French and Latin night classes while working in a textiles factory to becoming Professor of Philology at Oxford University. Although Wright published a number of other works during his lifetime, The English Dialect Dictionary is by far his greatest achievement, and is still regarded as one of the finest dictionaries of its type.
Helen Macdonald’s ‘extraordinary’ memoir wins Samuel Johnson prize. Pablo Neruda’s Extraordinary Life, in an Illustrated Love Letter to Language. By Maria Popova A swirling celebration of one of the greatest creative icons of the twentieth century.
Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda was not only one of the greatest poets in human history, but also a man of extraordinary insight into the human spirit — take, for instance, his remarkable reflection on what a childhood encounter taught him about why we make art, quite possibly the most beautiful metaphor for the creative impulse ever committed to paper. As a lover both of Neruda’s enduring genius and of intelligent children’s books, especially ones — such as the wonderful illustrated life-stories of Albert Einstein and Julia Child — I was instantly smitten with Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People (public library) by Monica Brown, with absolutely stunning illustrations and hand-lettering by artist Julie Paschkis.
Neftalí wasn’t very good at soccer or at throwing acorns like his friends, but he loved to read and discovered magic between the pages. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr. Learn how to write creative fiction, short stories, memoirs, and novels. Zadie Smith’s 10 Rules of Writing. What Books Do for the Human Soul: The Four Psychological Functions of Great L... It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver — because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
Literature is the greatest reality simulator — a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness. Literature performs the basic magic of what things look like though someone else’s point of view; it allows us to consider the consequences of our actions on others in a way we otherwise wouldn’t; and it shows us examples of kindly, generous, sympathetic people. Autumn is upon us. Autumn is upon us.
The air is refreshingly crisp as winter prepares to draw her first breath. Light chestnut brown and golden leaves gently clatter down the side of my shelter settling on the damp dewy grass. Andy Mackenzie sur Twitter : "@LilacLounge xxxx ❤️... Andy Mackenzie sur Twitter : "@LilacLounge xxxx... 12 Old Words that Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms. YourFry - A digital storytelling project for everyone. IndoEuropeanTree.svg. Cancel Edit Delete Preview revert Text of the note (may include Wiki markup) Could not save your note (edit conflict or other problem).
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My poetry pearl. Sue Carney sur Twitter : "@andymack1966 a beautiful poem by @StormBenedict brought a tear to my eye. It's exactly how I feel about us xxx ❤️ 30 Old (And Useful) Slang Names For Parts of the Body. Fingerprint words: Verbal tics that define us, and how they spread to others. 15 Words Plagued by Unusual Silent Letters. To the modern eye, it's often unclear what silent letters are doing in words, and learners sometimes simply have to memorize them.
But the silent letters are very often hidden remnants of how the words passed through different languages on their way to English. chthonic dwelling beneath the surface of the earth Greek-derived words often feature tricky consonant clusters that don't get pronounced that way in English. This word (from Greek kthon, meaning "earth"), tends to lose its initial "k" sound and ends up sounding like thonic. Origin of languages: Tower of Babel, proto-languages, and the brothers Grimm. The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (image via Wikimedia) The Tower of Babel story is a fanciful attempt to account for a very real question: What was the first language and why are there now so many of them?
The video below from TED Ed shows a brief history of how languages evolve, as speakers of the same language lose contact with each other in the centuries after migration and gradually drift linguistically in different directions. What's most interesting is not simply how we got multiple languages but rather how we determine, without the benefit of a time machine, which modern languages are related. The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin's Timeless Advice on Writing. AEIOU and sometimes Y: How many English vowels and what is a vowel anyway? Gretchen McCulloch How many vowels does English have?
Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Why I’m looking beyond the English lexicon for the word that doesn’t exist. Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writers. 13 Times Twitter's Literary Elite Got It Completely Right. Writing no longer buys a champagne lifestyle. Why Readers, Scientifically, Are The Best People To Fall In Love With. Ever finished a book? Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. Jacobsescape : Our souls didn't just touch they ... World Wide Words.
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Poetry. The Coming of the Toads. E.B. White’s Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity. The Perfect Essay. Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher. The challenge of translating Finnegans Wake. Lin Burrow reviews ‘Holy Shit’ by Melissa Mohr · LRB 26 September 2013. Is any word untranslatable? 'As a Dog Returneth To His Vomit', 'They All Lived', 'Psyche 101' and 'Born A...
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