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Author | : George Orwell |
Publisher | : Renard Press Ltd |
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Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1913724271 |
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author | : Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : Charles Mills Gayley |
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Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : English drama (Comedy) |
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Author | : Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1851 |
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Author | : Ben Blumson |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-09-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783740728 |
It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait’s resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance. It’s natural to contrast the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance, which emphasises the differences between depictive and descriptive representation, with an extremely close analogy between depiction and description, which emphasises the similarities between depictive and descriptive representation. Whereas the platitude emphasises that the connection between my portrait and me is natural in a way the connection between my name and me is not, the analogy emphasises the contingency of the connection between my portrait and me. Nevertheless, the second aim of this book is to defend an extremely close analogy between depiction and description. The strategy of the book is to argue that the apparently compelling objections raised against the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance are manifestations of more general problems, which are familiar from the philosophy of language. These problems, it argues, can be resolved by answers analogous to their counterparts in the philosophy of language, without rejecting the platitude. So the combination of the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance with a close analogy between depiction and description turns out to be a compelling theory of depiction, which combines the virtues of common sense with the insights of its detractors.
Author | : John Henry Fowler |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : English essays |
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Author | : Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1873 |
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Author | : Susan Birrell |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781555534301 |
A look at power relations in sports along the axes of gender, race, class, and sexuality.
Author | : Charles Mills Gayley |
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Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : English drama (Comedy) |
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Author | : Flint Schier |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1986-10-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521320429 |
This book presents an original theory of the nature of pictorial representation. The most influential recent theory of depiction, put forward by Nelson Goodman, holds that the relation between depictions and what they represent is entirely conventional. Flint Schier argues to the contrary that depiction involves resemblance to the things depicted, providing a sophisticated defence of our basic intuitions on the subject. Canvassing an attractive theory of 'generativity' rather than resemblance, Dr Schier provides a detailed account of depiction, showing how it illuminates and resolves many of the enigmas of pictorial representation while remaining true to our basic intuitions on the subject. Philosophers, psychologists and art theorists will find this a sophisticated and stimulating treatment of one of the central topics in aesthetics.