Ezra Pound's Cathay by Wai-lim Yip
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Wai-lim Yip's study of Ezra Pound's translation of the difficult Cathay poems also includes a discussion of the problems of translation from Chinese in general, and the effort by Pound in these poems in particular. Mr. Yip links Pound's principles of translation to his late pre-Raphaelite background, an ...Show more
Cathay - Ezra Pound's Orient by Ira Nadel
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
The English literati were fascinated by China at the turn of the century. London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde and modernist writers like Eliot, Yeats and Pound became infatuated--but only Pound set out to re-invent, re-connect and eventually "rethink the nature of an English poem." Publishe ...Show more
Meander, Spiral, Explode - Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 One of Poets & Writers' Best Books for Writers "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read. . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom ...Show more
The Conscious Style Guide: a flexible approach to language that includes, respects, and empowers by Karen Yin
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Thankfully, The Conscious Style Guide provides a roadmap for communicating with sensitivity and awareness - no matter how the world around us progresses. Readers will learn- How to identify biased language How to implement the overarching principles that guide us toward conscious language How to ad ...Show more
All We Have Is the Story - Selected Interviews (1973-2022) by James Kelman
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Kelman Library
ALL WE HAVE IS THE STORY collects fifty years of interviews, both published and unpublished, revealing James Kelman s thinking on a breadth of topics from writing and literature to class and race to sports and philosophy.
Un soir de décembreroman by Delphine de Vigan
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
La 4e de couverture indique : "Un livre peut-il porter à ce point la trace d'une femme ? Peut-on écrire seulement pour ça, pour se rapprocher de quelq'un ou de manière plus juste pour l'attacher à soi ? Lorsqu'il écrit son premier roman, Matthieu Brin, quarante-cinq ans, est marié, père de deux enfants ...Show more
Slogans Galore! - Gaelic Words in English by George McLennan
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A handy reference guide to Gaelic-derived words and expressions in common usage in English. Like George McLennan's previously successful book "Scots Gaelic - An Introduction to the Basics", "Gaelic and English - Their Common Origins" and "A Gaelic Alphabet - A Guide to the Pronunciation of Gaelic Letter ...Show more
Scottish Gaelic - A Comprehensive Grammar by WILLIAM. LAMB
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Scottish Gaelicː A Comprehensive Grammar is a definitive description of contemporary Gaelic.The volume presents a definitive description of modern Gaelic grammar, attending to both idealised usages - as typically taught in formal education - and more colloquial forms. Core chapters include useful observ ...Show more
Gaelic-English English-Gaelic Dictionary by Geddes and Grosset Staff; Waverley Editors (Editor)
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Once the national language of Scotland, Gaelic was gradually overtaken by Scots and in the 19th century its use was actively discouraged. The language is now enjoying a revival and this dictionary is a handy guide to the ancient Celtic language.
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues by Ross Perlin
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A captivating portrait of contemporary New York City, the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet, told through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages. Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never bee ...Show more
WRITING AS A WAY OF HEALING HOW TELLING OUR STORIES TRANSFORMS OUR LIVES by DESALVO LOUISE
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most s ...Show more
On Kim Scott: Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
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Category: Writing, Language & Reference
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more