1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456827603321

Autore

Dupriez Bernard Marie <1933->

Titolo

A dictionary of literary devices : gradus, A-Z / / Bernard Dupriez ; translated and adapted by Albert W. Halsall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

1-282-01156-1

9786612011566

1-4426-7030-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (566 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

803

Soggetti

Rhetoric - French

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Gradus : les procédés littéraires.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Extracts from the Original Introduction -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Common-sense,' the Romantic critics told us, was all that was needed to understand and interpret literary texts. Today, we know this is not generally true. Modern criticism has joined with pre-Romantic criticism to expose common-sense as appropriate (because simple-minded), inadequate to comprehend and interpret verbal structures which are frequently 'non-[common]sensical,' anti-commonsensical, or even nonsensical. The difference between readers today and their earlier counterparts is that we have lost the full vocabulary of criticism and the consciousness of the literary and rhetorical devices with which texts are created. Yet these devices are still available to us, still practised even if unwittingly and on an impoverished scale. "Gradus," originally published in French in 1984, was designed to make good that loss, to reanimate those skills. Comprising some 4000 terms, defined and illustrated, it calls upon the resources of linguistics, poetics, semiotics,



socio-criticism, rhetoric, pragmatics, combining them in ways which enable readers quickly to comprehend the codes and conventions which together make up 'literarity.' Skilfully translated into English, and adapted for an English-language audience with illustrations taken from an astonishing range of contemporary texts, literary and popular, drawn from literature, radio, television, and the theatre, "Gradus" will be a constant source of information and delight.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463745203321

Titolo

Fanning the sacred flame [[electronic resource] ] : Mesoamerican studies in honor of H. B. Nicholson / / edited by Matthew A. Boxt and Brian Dervin Dillon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012

ISBN

1-4571-1698-7

1-4571-1173-X

1-60732-161-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (574 p.)

Collana

Mesoamerican worlds

Altri autori (Persone)

BoxtMatthew A. <1951->

DillonBrian D

Disciplina

972/.01

Soggetti

Aztecs - History

Olmecs - History

Mayas - History

Indians of Mexico - History

Indians of Central America - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword and Reminiscence; Introduction; 1. H. B. Nicholson and the Archaeological Bug; Part 1: The Olmec and Their Neighbors; 2. The Middle Formative Period Stelae of Chalcatzingo; 3. Isla Alor; 4. Aquí Nació El Mundo; Part 2: The Maya and Their Neighbors; 5. Kingship in the Cradle of MayaCivilization; 6. Yaxchilán



Structure 23; 7. Santa Rosa, Chiapas; 8. Pipil Archaeology of Pacific Guatemala; 9. Under Ground in Ancient Mesoamerica; Part 3: Central Mexico; 10. The Mixteca-Puebla Tradition and H. B. Nicholson; 11. Obsidian Butterfly and Flowery Tree; 12. Nick at Night

13. The Xipe Tótec Cult and Mexica Military PromotionPart 4: Ethnohistory; 14. Prehispanic K'iche-MayaHistoriography; 15. Connecting Nahua and Mixtec Histories; Part 5: The Colonial Period; 16. The Final Tribute of Tenochtitlan; 17. Feathered Serpents, Pulquerías, and Indian Sedition in Colonial Cholula; 18. The Posthumous History of the Tizoc Stone; 19. The Real Expedición Anticuaria Collection; Part 6: Ethnography; 20. Yucatec Maya Agricultural Ritual Survivals; 21. Mesoamerican Indian Clothing; Contributors