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Allusions

Author : MS B
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663208298
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Allusions written by MS B and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smoke from the barrel of the Glock 9mm filled the air as the screams of a woman echoed in the background. The club which was once filled with trap music and loud patrons was now suffocated with clouds of gun smoke and splatters of blood. Behind the black leather chair against the wall which once was covered with the green Jamaican flag, now was drenched in bloody back matter. In the chair now scrunched over a body. Shot once in the head and twice in the chest. The shooter turned to the dark brown skinned girl screaming in the corner clutching her half naked body and immediately saw the fear in her eyes. You always knew working for a club could get you fucked up but never thought it would cost you your life. “I’m sorry” she screamed out as the shooter who was only standing 5’3 got closer in proximity to where the smell of the burnt metal was in her face. No remorse, no sympathy and no sorrow for the woman’s cries and pleads. Only thing was for certain was that revenge had to be taken and a point had to be proven. “POP” one shot to the head and her body lumped to the side with eyes wide open. Looking around at their destruction the shooter tucked the Glock and calmly exited the back-escape door. What’s done was done and for good reasons. Welcome to Allusions the hottest strip club in the Southeast. In the stripclub game its all about reaching the top and Kappo had it all figured out. He employed some of the baddest of the baddest the city had to offer and had his hands in the pockets of the biggest movers and shakers in the city. With the drug game on lock and making the most revenue in the city, Kappo was on top of his shit. In this industry its all about chess not checkers and Kappo played the game well....until jealousy and envy crossed his path in a dangerous way.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions

Author : Elizabeth Webber
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
ISBN 13 : 9780877796282
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Allusions written by Elizabeth Webber and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to references commonly used in speech and writing. Explains more than 900 allusions. Entries include examples from todays leading media. A must for serious readers, language lovers, and ESL students.

Allusions in Ulysses

Author : Weldon Thornton
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807840894
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Allusions in Ulysses written by Weldon Thornton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive list of allusions found in James Joyce's modern classic, Ulysses, is in itself a classic and is a feat of literary scholarship of unprecedented magnitude. In brief, this book is a copiously annotated list of Joyce's allusions in such areas as literature, philosophy, theology, history, and the fine arts. So awesome an undertaking would not have been possible without the prior work of such persons as Stuart Gilbert, Joseph Prescott, William York Tindall, M.J.C. Hodgart, Mabel Worthington, and many others. But the present list is more than a compilation of previously discovered allusions, for it contains many allusions that have never been suggested before, as well as some that have only been partially or mistakenly identified in earlier publications. In preparing this work, the author has kept its usefulness to the reader foremost in mind. He often refreshed the reader's memory in concerning the context of an allusion, since its context, in one sense or another, is always the guide to its function in the novel. The entire list is fully cross-referenced and keyed by page and line to both the old and new Modern Library editions of Ulysses. In addition, the index is prepared in such a way that it indexes not only the List but also the novel itself. The purpose of allusion in a literary work is essentially the same as that of all other types of metaphor -- the development and revelation of character, structure, and theme -- and, when skillfully used, it does all of these simultaneously. Joyce's use of allusion is distinguished from that of other authors not by its purposes, but by its extent and thoroughness. Ulysses involves dozens of allusive contexts, all continually intersecting, modifying, and qualifying one another. Here again Joyce's uniqueness and complexity lie not in his themes or characters, nor in his basic methods of developing them, but in his accepting the challenge of an Olympian use of his chosen methods. The value of this volume to Joyce scholars and students is obvious; however, its usefulness to anyone who reads Ulysses is as great, if not greater. It can truly be the key to this difficult but rewarding novel.

Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion

Author : Andrew Delahunty
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199567468
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion written by Andrew Delahunty and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allusions are a marvelous literary shorthand. A miser is a Scrooge, a strong man a Samson, a beautiful woman a modern-day Helen of Troy. From classical mythology to modern movies and TV shows, this revised and updated third edition explains the meanings of more than 2,000 allusions in use in modern English, from Abaddon to Zorro, Tartarus to Tarzan, and Rambo to Rubens. Based on an extensive reading program that has identified the most commonly used allusions, this fascinating volume includes numerous quotations to illustrate usage, drawn from sources ranging from Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens to Bridget Jones's Diary. In addition, the dictionary includes a useful thematic index, so that readers not only can look up Medea to find out how her name is used as an allusion, but also can look up the theme of "Revenge" and find, alongside Medea, entries for other figures used to allude to revenge, such as The Furies or The Count of Monte Cristo. Hailed by Library Journal as "wonderfully conceived and extraordinarily useful," this superb reference--now available in paperback--will appeal to anyone who enjoys language in all its variety. It is especially useful for students and writers.

Optical Allusions

Author : Jay S Hosler
Publisher : Active Synapse
ISBN 13 : 9780967725529
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Optical Allusions written by Jay S Hosler and published by Active Synapse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optical Allusions is for those people seeking a painstakingly researched, scientifically accurate, eye-themed comic book adventure! Wrinkles the Wonder Brain has lost his bosses eye and now he has to search all of human imagination for it. Along the way, he confronts biology head on and accidentally learns more about eyes and the evolution of vision than he thought possible. And, as if a compelling story with disembodied talking brains, shape-changing proteins, and giant robot eyes wasn't enough, each tale is followed by a fully illustrated, in-depth exploration of the ideas introduced in the comic story. Designed to be a hybrid college text book/comic book, Optical Allusions is suitable for advanced readers with an interest in evolution and real science. 127 pages.

2300 Steps to Word Power

Author : Edward C. Gruber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810311244
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book 2300 Steps to Word Power written by Edward C. Gruber and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media

Author : Svitlana Malykhina
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739178458
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media written by Svitlana Malykhina and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media builds on a growing body of work concerning post-Soviet media culture during the last, transformative decade. Making sense of the literary allusions in media discourse, Svitlana Malykhina reminds us that allusions can serve as a primary marker of identity—national and cultural—and may also be a way of negotiating the gap between what has to be reported and what can be banned by censorship. Malykhina presents the changes and continuities between rhetoric strategies of Soviet-style media and postcommunist Russian media, identifying the key literary and historical references in public discourse, which are then picked up by the media. The book analyzes the political, cultural, and social factors at play in the development and expansion of these allusions in both official and alternative discourses. Examining the rise of the Internet, which has remained wholly uncensored in Russia, Malykhina reveals that the Russian Internet media began to function as alternative mass media. Yet, the success of the Internet media has also brought complex and unintended consequences. Malykhina offers an empirically rich examination of conventional classical allusions in media discourse, focusing mainly on the rhetorical techniques by which subversive meanings of these references were generated.

Lord of the Flies

Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571290582
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Lord of the Flies written by William Golding and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.

The Language of the American South

Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820331236
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Language of the American South written by Cleanth Brooks and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. He writes of the language's unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of the classical allusions and Addisonian locutions once favored by the gentry; and of the more earthbound eloquence, rooted in the dialect of England's southern lowlands, that is still heard in the speech of the region's plain folk. It is this rich spoken language, Brooks suggests, that has always been the life blood of southern writing. The strong tradition of storytelling in the South is reflected in the tales told by Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus and in the obsessive retellings that structure William Faulkner's novels and stories. But even more crucially, the language of the South--firmly rooted in the land but with a tendency to reach for the heavens above--has shaped the literary concerns and molded the complex visions to be found in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren and John Crowe Ransom; the stories of Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, and Eudora Welty; and the novels of Warren, Allen Tate, and Walker Percy.

Biblical Allusions

Author : Lindsay Bacher
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1629697877
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Allusions written by Lindsay Bacher and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the role and theme of Biblical allusions in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Matrix, Lord of the Flies, and The Lion King. It features four analysis papers that consider Biblical allusions, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme. Critical thinking questions, sidebars highlighting and explaining each thesis and argument, and other possible approaches for analysis help students understand the mechanics of essay writing. Features include a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Belles and Poets

Author : Julia Nitz
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174610
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Belles and Poets written by Julia Nitz and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references to literary texts. Nitz finds that many diarists incorporated allusions to poems, plays, and novels, especially works by Shakespeare and the British Romantic poets, in moments of uncertainty and crisis. While previous studies have overlooked or neglected such literary allusions in personal writings, regarding them as mere embellishments or signs of elite social status, Nitz reveals that these references functioned as codes through which women diarists contemplated their roles in society and addressed topics related to slavery, Confederate politics, gender, and personal identity. Nitz’s innovative study of identity construction and literary intertextuality focuses on diaries written by the following women: Eliza Frances (Fanny) Andrews of Georgia (1840–1931), Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut of South Carolina (1823–1886), Malvina Sara Black Gist of South Carolina (1842–1930), Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan of Louisiana (1842–1909), Cornelia Peake McDonald of Virginia (1822–1909), Judith White Brockenbrough McGuire of Virginia (1813–1897), Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone of Louisiana (1841–1907), and Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas of Georgia (1843–1907). These women’s diaries circulated in postwar commemoration associations, and several saw publication. The public acclaim they received helped shape the collective memory of the war and, according to Nitz, further legitimized notions of racial supremacy and segregation. Comparing and contrasting their own lives to literary precedents and fictional role models allowed the diarists to process the privations of war, the loss of family members, and the looming defeat of the Confederacy. Belles and Poets establishes the extent to which literature offered a means of exploring ideas and convictions about class, gender, and racial hierarchies in the Civil War–era South. Nitz’s work shows that literary allusions in wartime diaries expose the ways in which some white southern women coped with the war and its potential threats to their way of life.

“I Will Walk Among You”

Author : G. Geoffrey Harper
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646020545
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book “I Will Walk Among You” written by G. Geoffrey Harper and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-known parallels between Genesis and Leviticus invite further reflection, particularly in regard to the rhetorical and theological purpose of their lexical, syntactical, and conceptual correspondences. This volume investigates the possibility that the final-form text of Leviticus is an indirect reference to Genesis 1–3 and examines the rhetorical significance of such an allusion. The face of Pentateuch scholarship has shifted dramatically in the last forty years, resulting in the questioning of many received truths and the employment of a host of new, renewed, and often competing methodologies by biblical scholars. This study sits at the intersection of these recent interpretive trends. G. Geoffrey Harper uses insights from the fields of intertextuality, rhetorical criticism, and speech act theory to create a methodological framework, which he applies to three Leviticus pericopes. Chapters 11, 16, and 26 are examined in turn, and for each the assessment of potential parallels at lexical, syntactical, and conceptual levels reveals a complex web of interconnected allusion to the creation and Eden narratives of Genesis 1 and 2–3. Moreover, Harper probes the theological and rhetorical import of these intertextual connections and explores how Leviticus ought to be understood in its Pentateuchal context. This comprehensive study of the connections between these two sections of the Hebrew Bible sheds light on both the literary artistry of these ancient texts and the persuasive purposes that lie behind their composition.

Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music

Author : Jacquelyn Sholes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253033160
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms's Instrumental Music written by Jacquelyn Sholes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously known musical references in works such as the B-Major Piano Trio, the D-Major Serenade, the First Piano Concerto, and the Fourth Symphony, among others, Sholes demonstrates how a historical reference in one movement of a work seems to resonate meaningfully, musically, and dramatically with material in other movements in ways not previously recognized. She highlights Brahms's ability to weave such references into broad, movement-spanning narratives, arguing that these narratives served as expressive outlets for his complicated, sometimes conflicted, attitudes toward the material to which he alludes. Ultimately, Brahms's music reveals both the inspiration and the burden that established masters such as Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and especially Beethoven represented for him as he struggled to emerge with his own artistic voice and to define and secure his unique position in music history.

Allusion

Author : Allan H. Pasco
Publisher : Rookwood Press
ISBN 13 : 9781886365216
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Allusion written by Allan H. Pasco and published by Rookwood Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994, this pioneering study looks empirically at the way allusion works in specific fictions and affects the reading process. Clear, concise definitions and distinctions are illustrated by close readings of Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet.

Dorothy Must Die

Author : Danielle Paige
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062280694
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Dorothy Must Die written by Danielle Paige and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling first book in a dark series that reimagines the Oz saga, from debut author Danielle Paige. Start at the beginning and discover your new series to binge! My name is Amy Gumm—and I'm the other girl from Kansas. I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. I've been trained to fight. And I have a mission: Remove the Tin Woodman's heart. Steal the Scarecrow's brain. Take the Lion's courage. And—Dorothy must die. I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know? Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There's still a road of yellow brick—but even that's crumbling. What happened? Dorothy. They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.

Allusions in Omeros

Author : Maria McGarrity
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813061009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Allusions in Omeros written by Maria McGarrity and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omeros is considered the masterwork of Caribbean-born poet and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. McGarrity, an expert on Joyce and Caribbean literature, has written a definitive and needed high-quality reading guide for this important piece of postcolonial Caribbean literature.

Hardy’s Use of Allusion

Author : Marlene Springer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349063894
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Hardy’s Use of Allusion written by Marlene Springer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: