History of the Word "novel," Including Such Related Words as "romance" and "history"

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The Romance of Words

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Download or read book The Romance of Words written by Ernest Weekley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romance of Words A Long and somewhat varied experience in language teaching has convinced me that there are still, in spite of the march of science, many people who are capable of getting intellectual pleasure from word-history. I hope that to such people this little book, the amusement of occasional leisure, will not be unwelcome. It differs, I believe, from any other popular book on language in that it deals essentially with the origins of words and makes no attempt to enforce a moral. My aim has been to select especially the unexpected in etymology, "things not generally known," such as the fact that Tammany was an Indian chief, that assegai occurs in Chaucer, that jilt is identical with Juliet, that brazil wood is not named from Brazil, that to curry favour, means to comb down a horse of a particular colour, and so forth. The treatment is made as simple as possible, a bowing acquaintance with Latin and French being all that is assumed, though words from many other languages are necessarily included. In the case of each word I have traced the history just so far back as it is likely to be of interest to the reader who is not a philological specialist. I have endeavoured to state each proposition in its simplest terms, without enumerating all the reservations and indirect factors which belong to the history of almost every word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Romance of Words (4th Ed. )

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Download or read book The Romance of Words (4th Ed. ) written by Ernest Weekley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Ernest Weekley A long and somewhat varied experience in language teaching has convinced me that there are still, in spite of the march of science, many people who are capable of getting intellectual pleasure from word-history. I hope that to such people this little book, the amusement of occasional leisure, will not be unwelcome. It differs, I believe, from any other popular book on language in that it deals essentially with the origins of words, and makes no attempt to enforce a moral. My aim has been to select especially the unexpected in etymology, "things not generally known," such as the fact that Tammany was an Indian chief, that assegai occurs in Chaucer, that jilt is identical with Juliet, that brazil wood is not named from Brazil, that to curry favour means to comb down a horse of a particular colour, and so forth. The treatment is made as simple as possible, a bowing acquaintance with Latin and French being all that is assumed, though words from many other languages are necessarily included. In the case of each word I have traced the history just so far back as it is likely to be of interest to the reader who is not a philological specialist. I have endeavoured to state each proposition in its simplest terms, without enumerating all the reservations and indirect factors which belong to the history of almost every word. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education

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Word Origins

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The Romance of Words

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A Dictionary of Medieval Romance and Romance Writers

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Medieval Romance and Romance Writers written by Lewis Spence and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the PREFACE. The term "romance" is so wide in its modern acceptance, and so loose in its application, that it will be well at the outset to attempt to formulate a definition of the word, which will also serve to define the scope of this work. Briefly, a romance may be described as a tale written at any period between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, which deals with the age of chivalry. The narrower meaning of the word can only be applied to such tales of chivalry and love as were written in the "Roman" (that is, in Old French). Jean Bodel, a French romancer who flourished in the twelfth century, sings- "Ne sont que trois matieres a nul home entendant, De France, de Bretagne, et de Home la grant." Thus the tales of Charlemagne, Arthur, and Rome (that is, of ancient history), alluded to in the verse, were held by Jean as the only themes which a contemporary poet might worthily sing of. But no such bounds can be set to the great Empire of Romance by its modern students. Since Bodel's day its frontiers have been extended into regions that he did not know of. But it is necessary to exercise care in fixing its limits in order that territory which does not rightly belong to it is not included; in other words, that only those bodies of literature which have been evolved from it, have affinities with it, or are of the same genre or class, should be included. Thus, the Celtic prototypes of the Arthurian romance deserve inclusion, as do those Italian and Spanish tales which were adapted in the Peninsulas from the romances of Arthur and Charlemagne. The British Isles also produced a wealth of Arthurian romance of their own, and examples of this have been included. As regards the great Teutonic cycles of story, it has been thought well to include these. They are of the same genre, and, at least, as much romantic in spirit, as the subjects of the Maliere de Bretagne, or, at any rate, that part of it which emanated from France. Many of the Icelandic saga-stories have also been included for a similar reason. A dividing line has been drawn where the tale is either purely historical or mythological in its purport. Such examples must be relegated to their proper sphere-that of pure myth: they have no place in a dictionary of romance. But wherever the elements or traces of myth have been observed in a romance, such a circumstance has not militated against its inclusion, and an effort has been made in each case to elucidate the mythological references and obscurities where these occur. Such being the scope of the work, the reader will look in vain through its pages for reference to such works as are included in the term " romance" in its more modern sense. Thus the "romances" of the school of Mile, de Bendery and the extravagant fictions of the later "romantic revival" are not represented. These are only romances inasmuch as they partook of the "prodigious " element of romance proper, and have nothing else in common with it. Moreover, such a lapse of time separates them from the older romances that they must be regarded as altogether a separate form of literature. Several of the articles will be remarked as more extended in scope than others. This applies to that on Guyot, whom I regard as important as being the probable originator of the Grail legend. The "Morte d'Arthur" I have also summarized at length, as being the greatest English example of the Arthurian legend, and a treasure-house of Arthurian lore...."

Annual Report of the President of the University

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Download or read book Annual Report of the President of the University written by Stanford University and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1913/15 contains reports of chancellor and treasurer; 1919/24, reports of treasurer and comptroller; 1924- reports of treasurer, comptroller, departments, committees and the publications of the faculty.

Annual Report of the President of Stanford University for the ... Academic Year Ending ...

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Dictionary of Word Origins

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ISBN 13 : 9781611450538
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Download or read book Dictionary of Word Origins written by John Ayto and published by Arcade. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover the hidden and often surprising connection between words. Written in a clear and informative style, the more than 8,000 articles reveal the origins of and links between some of the most common English-language words. What is the link between map and apron, acrobat and oxygen, zeal and jealousy, flour and pollen, secret and crime? Did you know that crimson originally comes from the name of tiny scale insects, the kermes, from whose dried bodies a red dyestuff is made? That Yankee began as a nickname for Dutchmen? That omelette evolved from amulette, “a thin sheet of metal,” and is a not-too-distant cousin of the word laminate? That jeans find their antecedent in jean fustian, meaning “a cotton fabric from Genoa”? They also contain an extensive selection of words whose life histories are intrinsically fascinating or instructive. This dictionary shows how modern English has developed from its Indo-European roots and how the various influences on the language—from migration and invasion to exploration, trade, technology, and scholarship—have intermingled. It is an invaluable addition to any English or linguistics library.

The Development of the English Novel (Classic Reprint)

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Download or read book The Development of the English Novel (Classic Reprint) written by Wilbur L. Cross and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Development of the English Novel The terms 'romance' and 'novel, ' which in them selves are a summary of the two conflicting aims in fiction, require at the outset brief historical and de scriptive definition. The former is in English the older word, being in common use as early as the fourteenth century. Our writers then meant first of all by the romance 8. Highly idealized verse-narrative of adventure or love translated from the French, that is, from a romance language; they also extended the term to similar stories derived from classic and other sources, or of their own invention. For a verse narrative approaching closer to the manners of real life -its intrigues and jealousies, - the Provencal poets had employed the word novas (always plural); for a like narrative in prose, always short, Boccaccio and his contemporaries were using the cognate word novella. Of stories of this realistic content, many were written in English in the fourteenth century, but they were called tales, -a word of elastic con notation, which Chaucer made to comprehend nearly all the different kinds of verse-stories current in his tune. During the two centuries following Boccaccio the Italians continued to compose books of novelle, and in very great numbers. In the age of Elizabeth they came into English 111 shoals, and with them the word 'novel, ' as applicable to either the translation or an imitation. It was a particularly felicitous make-believe designation, for it conveyed the notion that the inci dents and the treatment were new. It however had a hard struggle to maintain itself, for the Elizabethans preferred to it the word 'history, ' which they applied to all manner of fictions in verse and prose, as may be seen from such titles as 'the Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet' and 'the History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.' This, too, was a happy desig nation, for it implied a pretended faithfulness to fact. Richardson and Fielding, after some vacilla tion, settled upon the word 'history for their fictions, though they both refer to them as novels. From the invention of printing down to this time the word 'romance, ' by which our mediaeval writers denoted ad ventures in verse or in prose, had not been common in the titles and the prefaces of English fictions, though many romances had been written. But when in the last half of the eighteenth century wild and supernatural stories came into fashion, the word was often placed upon title-pages. At this time Clara Reeve, in an exceedingly pleasant group of dialogues, drew the line of distinction between the romance and the novel. She says in 'the Progress of Romance' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Greatest Historical Romance Novels of All Time

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Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800

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Download or read book The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones, Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques, French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels. These minor novels are not only interesting in their own right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. In the most comprehensive history of this period ever written, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. Though written for a general audience, The Novel, An Alternative History also provides the scholarly apparatus required by the serious student of the period. This sequel, like its predecessor, is a “zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of literary forms” (Booklist).

The Dictionary of Lost Words

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ISBN 13 : 1984820737
Total Pages : 417 pages
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70 Greatest Love Stories in Fiction (Historical Novels Edition)

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

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