10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AVUNCULARITY»
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avuncularity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
avuncularity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and ...
Avuncularity, like so many features attributed to early Germanic culture and
society, is based on a passage in Tacitus's Germania,4 but its actual importance
is a matter of doubt: there are literary examples showing the special position of
the ...
Graham D. Caie, Carole Hough, Irené Wotherspoon, 2006
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Issues in Behavioral Psychology: 2013 Edition
University Of Lethbridge: Relationship StatuS and elevated avuncularity in
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According to ...
Mme de Villeparisis would seem to provide a peculiar exception to Richard
Goodkin's compelling argument about "avuncularity" and homosexuality in
Around Proust, since she is at once eminently auntly and relentlessly
uncomprehending of ...
AS PETER BROOKS points out, “paternity is a dominant issue time and other
things, would transform the issue of paternity into an issue of avuncularity.3 In
Proust the paternal relation that dominates the nineteenth-century novel4 is not
so ...
5
From Whitney to Chomsky: Essays in the history of American ...
For the avuncular relationship, the one discussed at greatest length in the article,
although its value differs greatly from culture to culture, nevertheless We see that
avuncularity, to be understood. must be treated as a relationship interior to a ...
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Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural ...
His absence motivated a large-scale search of the surrounding area. But happily
the event turned out safely. 2 'Avuncularity' is here defined as a relation in which
men and boys are orientated to a common task, outside the immediate context ...
It is this unconscious, and its relation to catastrophe, that make the tone Auden is
best known for, that slightly campy tone that can slide into an irritating
avuncularity, or what he called, accusing himself, “the preacher's loose immodest
tone” ...
Christopher S. Nealon, 2011
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The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: ...
... fraternal equivalence to professional “benevolent” control as this period's
symbolic fathers and brothers are represented in terms of matrilineal avuncularity
and cousinage. Hallet is a “distant kinsman” of Clara's mother and Cambridge is
the ...
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Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals: Babbitt Jr. Vs. the ...
Today in America the ritualistic kind of liberal will never again burble merrily
about the benign avuncularity of "Joe" Stalin. Today no liberal would accept such
capitalist apologies for Stalin as Mission to Moscow, the influential best seller by
...
10
The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold
Avuncularity had effects at the level of ideology in particular, as a means of
insertion and alienation of slaves. Through the creation of fictitious, incomplete
and degraded kinship links, slaves were associated both with the class of
masters and ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AVUNCULARITY»
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avuncularity is used in the context of the following news items.
The Week in Radio: We'll leave it there so
And while many voices, on many stations, were highlighting how that very warmth and avuncularity contributed to O'Herlihy's popularity and ... «Herald, May 15»
Darth Wader, the Gardener
So when the Premier called the election with a grinning shoulder-heaving avuncularity declaring that it would fall on “Stars Wars” day, and “May ... «The Guardian Charlottetown, Apr 15»
Benjamin Britten: flame of boyhood
It is in the letters to his young friends that he comes alive, an enthusiastic, boy's-own avuncularity shining through in long, newsy letters from ... «The Australian Financial Review, Apr 15»
Somaliland: Hidden Charms, Wild Roads, and Abiding Mysteries
Yet, for all the definitions, Somaliland's rise as a solitary symbol of peace is something Somalilanders, sometimes with avuncularity, sometimes ... «Geeska Afrika, Mar 15»
David Oyelowo is electrifying as Martin Luther King in Ava …
Wilkinson's jowly avuncularity can jar in some American films, but this is the best use of him in years. By the end, after the flare-ups in Selma ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 14»
'Gravity's Rainbow,' Read by George Guidall
He turns out to do it in a slow and deep-voiced manner, beneath whose calm avuncularity you can detect anxiety, even mania, bubbling but ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
Bill Cosby, David Letterman, and Blackmail
But then the Jello Pudding commercials rebuilt his popularity on the basis of avuncularity, from which he segued into his immensely popular ... «VDARE.com, Nov 14»
The Children in Need 2014 hosts. Photo: BBC
Fronting proceedings were Sir Terry Wogan – his avuncularity stream-rolled all before it – and Tess Daly, delivering the unintentionally ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»
Tom Menino forged his own political party
His deft alternation between avuncularity and menacing would have recommended him well to certain exiled Florentine political scientists. «Boston Globe, Oct 14»
The Scottsboro Boys review: not to be missed
... the cast as a Colonel Sanders/Uncle Sam-type entrepreneur or "Interlocutor" who runs the troupe with condescending Southern avuncularity, ... «Express.co.uk, Oct 14»
