10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOSTROPHIC»
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apostrophic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
apostrophic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A New System of English Grammar: By the Study of which ...
Ancestor, being in the possessive ease, should have an apostrophic .t, if one
ancestor is meant; but if more than one ancestor is meant, it should hhve an
apostrophe only, agreeably to Note 1st. — Xhus, "Thy ancestor's virtue is not
thine;" or ...
Starling Tattoo describes a conversion-like experience she has attending a festival at a farm-life rescue in upstate New York, where she hears a favorite band play and feels a strengthened connection to the earth.
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Poetry's Touch: On Lyric Address
But the context has generated lingering confusion about how much this poem
shares "the time of the apostrophic now" (153) or other features of apostrophes to
inanimate or abstract beings, which Culler sees as invocatory attempts to
interrupt ...
William Addison Waters, 2003
4
Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen ...
The. Puzzle. of. Apostrophic. Form. in. the. 1819. “To. ————. ” William
Wordsworth composed the thirty-nine-line blank verse poem “To ———” in 1819
and published it by that simple, spare title in the volume The River Duddon in
April 1820.
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Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity
Archaic lyric could, of course, be epigrammatic or apostrophic also, but not
necessarily and not always or even usually. The point is that, under an
Aristotelian poetic, a relatively open-ended range of rhetorical possibilities is
exchanged for one ...
Jeffrey Walker Professor of English Emory University, 2000
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Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry
Nothing need happen in an apostrophic poem, as the great Romantic odes
amply demonstrate. Nothing need happen because the poem itself is to be the
happening. The tension between the narrative and the apostrophic can be seen
as the ...
7
"Bad Snow-Whites" Israeli Women's Poetry of the 1960's: The ...
634 According to Jonathan Culler there are two major impulses in poetry: the
narrative impulse and the apostrophic impulse, while the latter dominates the
lyric poem. Culler, 1981, 135-154. I thank Nurit Buchweitz for this observation
which is ...
8
New Definitions of Lyric: Theory, Technology, and Culture
The apostrophic lyric can only re-embody, echo, or duplicate what its "knowers"
feel already, so long as it is denied the rhetorical means to persuade them into
new belief and valuation: the discursive force of argument, backed by the "charm"
...
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The works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron;: containing ...
containing English bards, and Scotch reviewers; The curse of Minerva, and the
Waltz, an apostrophic hymn Baron George Gordon Byron Byron. WALTZ : AN
APOSTROPHIC HYMN. r to THE PUBLISHER. SiH, I am a country gentleman,
Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, 1820
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Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook
These may be described as follows: (a) apostrophic refrains; (b) echoor parrot
refrains; (c) complementary refrains; (d) exclamatory words; (e) theme or topical
refrains; (f) onomatopoeic refrains; (g)ideophonic refrains;and (h)lyrical refrains.
Margaret Read MacDonald, 2013
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «APOSTROPHIC»
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apostrophic is used in the context of the following news items.
You Should Read Frederick Douglass's Funny, Fiery, Still Relevant …
... Taylor evoked Columbia, goddess of liberty, in a newly composed National Ode that was apostrophic enough to induce a case of the vapors. «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
Dark Side of the Spoon: The Moods and Recipes of Nigel Slater
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Chicken” was, apparently, written with a total lack of irony. It includes a stanza full of apostrophic plea to meat ... «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
Beachcomber: 98 years old and STILL as authentic as brass
That date is highly significant in British apostrophic history, as 1595 was the year in which Queen Elizabeth I created the role of Apostropher ... «Express.co.uk, Jun 15»
98 years old and STILL politically punctuated ...
And how can they claim to be in favour of grammatical rectitude when they refuse to do anything about the Law of Apostrophic Conservation ... «Express.co.uk, Apr 15»
Is this the ultimate spam fail?
We couldn't decide if we were more offended by the insults or by the spammers' apostrophic abuse. But the prize for our drollest example of ... «Naked Security, Mar 15»
Rudy Giuliani, American Soviet
People focused on the insult to Obama, but just as interesting was the apostrophic address to a conspiratorial and exclusive you and me ... «RollingStone.com, Feb 15»
98 years old and STILL punctilliously punctuated
To accompany Sir D'Anville's tribute, the Department for Apostrophic Affairs has issued the information sheet 500 Glorious Years of ... «Express.co.uk, Feb 15»
'Gravity's Rainbow,' Read by George Guidall
... often switching to the apostrophic/interrogative, climaxes in a burst of monumental allegory). It's entirely fitting that the character we first meet, ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
Vancouver's indie musical crop dishes on their greatest ever …
Colin O'Hearn makes haunting, atmospheric electronica under the name apostrophic. His new EP, FLA, finds beauty in sadness, the producer ... «Straight.com, Oct 14»
All the Days and Nights review – Niven Govinden's beautifully brief …
The book is in apostrophic form, written in the voice of a wildly successful, if markedly eccentric artist, Anna Brown, to her partner, the absent ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
