Clichés

Clichés
Author: Nigel Fountain
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2012-09-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 184317796X

Entertaining and informative, this collection of clichés really is the best thing since sliced bread ...

Every Cliché in the Book

Every Cliché in the Book
Author: Peggy Rosenthal
Publisher: William Morrow
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780688061135

Presents well-known cliches under the headings: sentiments, situations, sources, and sounds.

A Deadly Cliche

A Deadly Cliche
Author: Ellery Adams
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101477296

While walking her poodle, Olivia Limoges discovers a dead body buried in the sand. Could it be connected to the bizarre burglaries plaguing Oyster Bay, North Carolina? At every crime scene, the thieves set up odd tableaus: a stick of butter with a knife through it, dolls with silver spoons in their mouths, a deck of cards with a missing queen. Olivia realizes each setup represents a cliché. And who better to decode the cliché clues than her Bayside Book Writers group?

The War Against Cliche

The War Against Cliche
Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2014-09-17
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1101910259

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection, Martin Amis, "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME), takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton, and more. "[Written] with intelligence and ardor and panache.... Speaks not just to a lifetime of reading but also to a fascination with individual writers." —The New York Times Here, Amis serves up fresh assessments of the classics and plucks neglected masterpieces off their dusty shelves. Above all, Amis is concerned with literature, and with the deadly cliches—not only of the pen, but of the mind and the heart. He tilts with Cervantes, Dickens and Milton, celebrates Bellow, Updike and Elmore Leonard, and deflates some of the most bloated reputations of the past three decades. On every page Amis writes with jaw-dropping felicity, wit, and a subversive brilliance that sheds new light on everything he touches.

Cliches

Cliches
Author: Betty Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1999-01-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312198442

An editor of "Roget's Thesaurus" has collected more than 1,500 of the world's favorite cliches, categorizing them according to origin and most common meaning.

The Dictionary of Cliches

The Dictionary of Cliches
Author: James T. Rogers
Publisher: New York : Facts on File
Total Pages: 305
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Anglais (Langue) - Mots et locutions
ISBN: 9780816010103

Over 2,000 common or amusing cliches, their meanings and origins.

What Was a Cliche Before It Became One?

What Was a Cliche Before It Became One?
Author: Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1515763951

An engaging way to introduce young readers to parts of speech, particularly idioms and cliches. Explains the differences, and how best to use--and not use--said parts of speech. Fulfills Common Core standard for literature.

Cliché and Organization

Cliché and Organization
Author: Luc Peters
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1443889601

Organizations are caught in clichés. This means that they do not think for themselves anymore, but rather simply copy pre-existing ideas. This is giving rise to a world which pretends to be knowable, predictable and mouldable, one in which clichés like efficiency, transparency, means-ends rationality, and the strong leader are used without further thought or critique. This is the reason why organizations come into conflict with themselves, and which causes a seemingly unresolvable crisis. Film, however, can show us a totally different world. It has a subversive potency that can wake up the viewer, making them think again, allowing them to see a world which cannot be perceived anymore. It can show the world as it really is again, and can enable us to break through clichés. This book adopts a unique viewpoint on organizations, through its use of film. With the help of philosophers like Deleuze, Heidegger and Sloterdijk, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers, Cronenberg, Antonioni and Tarkovsky and films like The Big Lebowski, eXistenZ, Stalker and Playtime, a world is revealed and explored. It shows the decisive role played by architecture, and why managers are manipulative and impotent at the same time.

Paris and the Cliché of History

Paris and the Cliché of History
Author: Catherine Eleanor Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0190681640

Paris and the Cliché of History traces the changing historical meanings of photographs of this city during a century marked by urban renovation, war, occupation, liberation, and visual documentation. Challenging the idea that photographs merely document the past, it calls for new methods of reading photos as material objects with histories of their own and sheds insight on the capital's reduction to an image in the twentieth century.