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| Author | : Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780300089196 |
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned. "It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biographies of the twentieth century, as its subject was one of the finest human beings of the nineteenth." --Anthony Burgess "A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." --Times (London) "A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself--grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship." --Time "In her vivid biography, Murray's granddaughter brings his remarkable personality to life, and provides an unexpectedly fascinating account of the OED's long and difficult birth." --Times Literary Supplement "A gripping, engaging story; endearing, too. The daily round of a big Victorian family, with its jokes, games, and treasured seaside holidays, is entrancingly evoked." --Sunday Times (London)
| Author | : Katharine Maud Elisabeth Murray |
| Publisher | : New Haven : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780300021318 |
An account of the life and scholarly career of the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and of the writing of the Dictionary itself
| Author | : K. M. Murray |
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| Release | : 1977 |
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| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 1979 |
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| Author | : Lynda Mugglestone |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300106992 |
Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.
| Author | : Lindsay Rose Russell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2018-04-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316953548 |
Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.
| Author | : M. Banta |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2011-11-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230370810 |
Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society.
| Author | : Mark Vaz |
| Publisher | : Del Rey |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2009-03-25 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0307517047 |
The Spider-Man 2 Dream Machine—from original idea to final cut— unmasking the creative genius at work in the blockbuster movie The epic adventure of one of the greatest superheroes of all time explodes on the silver screen as never before. Now, in this captivating journey behind the scenes and into the imagination, fans can discover how the myth and magic became real in Spider-Man 2, as they plunge deeper into Spider-Man’s world to meet the characters, explore the environments, and follow the storyline in a stunning visual journey. Packed with hundreds of amazing production illustrations, prepared by many of the most talented illustrators in Hollywood, Caught in the Web features • Original sketches, artwork, and doodles that became the inspirations for characters, sets, and computer–generated imagery • Climactic scenes from the movie as they first appeared in conceptual art • Design work used to develop costumes and visual effects—as well as blueprints and architectural drafts used in the construction of both physical and virtual environments • Unique insights into the genesis of Doc Ock—revealing how he evolved from his comic-book origins • An intimate behind-the-scenes look at the full creative process for Spider-Man 2 Enter the amazing realm where dreams come true and discover how the epic adventure was created as you immerse yourself in the action and atmosphere of Spider-Man 2, from the first rough sketches to the final on-screen adventure.
| Author | : Jessica Evans |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780415208703 |
Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading cultural thinkers to ask what role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.
| Author | : Geoffrey Hill |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 827 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0199234485 |
The Collected Critical Writings gathers more than forty years of Hill's published criticism, in a revised final form, and also adds much new work. It will serve as the canonical volume of criticism by Hill, the pre-eminent poet-critic whom A. N. Wilson has called "probably the best writer alive, in verse or in prose." In his criticism Hill ranges widely, investigating both poets (including Jonson, Dryden, Hopkins, Whitman, Eliot, and Yeats ) and prose writers (such as Tyndale, Clarendon, Hobbes, Burton, Emerson, and F. H. Bradley). He is also steeped in the historical context - political, poetic, and religious - of the writers he studies. Most importantly, he brings texts and contexts into new and telling relations, neither reducing texts to the circumstances of their utterance nor imagining that they can float free of them. A number of the essays have already established themselves as essential reading on particular subjects, such as his analysis of Vaughan's "The Night", his discussion of Gurney's poetry, and his critical account of The Oxford English Dictionary. Others confront the problems of language and the nature of value directly, as in "Our Word is Our Bond", "Language, Suffering, and Value", and "Poetry and Value". In all his criticism, Hill reveals literature to be an essential arena of civic intelligence.
