Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
Londinismen Slang und Cant
Author: Heinrich Baumann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cant
Languages : de
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cant
Languages : de
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes
Author: James Joyce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131651594X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 993
Book Description
This edition offers everything needed by the newcomer to this famous but intimating text: images, maps, footnotes, and introductory essays by eighteen leading Joyceans.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131651594X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 993
Book Description
This edition offers everything needed by the newcomer to this famous but intimating text: images, maps, footnotes, and introductory essays by eighteen leading Joyceans.
Dictionaries
Author: K. Böddeker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Taalstudie
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
New Quotatoes: Joycean Exogenesis in the Digital Age
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900431962X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
New Quotatoes offers fourteen original essays on the genetic dossiers of Joyce’s fiction and the ties that bind the literary archive to the transatlantic print sphere of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900431962X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
New Quotatoes offers fourteen original essays on the genetic dossiers of Joyce’s fiction and the ties that bind the literary archive to the transatlantic print sphere of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Modernist Parody
Author: Sarah Davison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192849247
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf, the mode engendered revolutionary self-reflexive, critical, and creative practices that were crucial to the development of truly modern art. This book contends that the jauntiness, verve, and daring of high modernism is fundamentally parodic. It arguesthat parody is central to the whole modernist project. As a literary technique, parody provided the means for modernists of many stripes to learn their craft, sharpen their historical sense, definethemselves as post-Victorians, and respond to sources of inspiration while composing.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192849247
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Parody often stands accused of producing derivative art deficient in taste and skill. But in the hands of writers such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf, the mode engendered revolutionary self-reflexive, critical, and creative practices that were crucial to the development of truly modern art. This book contends that the jauntiness, verve, and daring of high modernism is fundamentally parodic. It arguesthat parody is central to the whole modernist project. As a literary technique, parody provided the means for modernists of many stripes to learn their craft, sharpen their historical sense, definethemselves as post-Victorians, and respond to sources of inspiration while composing.