10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIPOGRAMMATISM»
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lipogrammatism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lipogrammatism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Affixes in Their Origin and Application: Exhibiting the ...
Ax is preferable to axe. Glue is for French glu, tmd /mlsc is for pouls, German and
old English puls. Obs. Written English is subject to the freaks of lipogrammatism,
in forbidding certain letters to occupy their proper place. Thus 'v' ] 36 SUFFIXES ...
Samuel Stehman Haldeman, 1871
2
The Origin and History of the English Language: And of the ...
The pedantry of individuals may, no doubt, as the same affectation has done in
Germany and Holland*, carry puristic partialities to a length as absurd as
lipogrammatism in literature, but the general familiarity of literary men with classic
and ...
George Perkins Marsh, 1862
3
"Cast in Later Grecian Mould", Quintus of Smyrna's Reception ...
... Odyssey on their own poetic turf; unlike Philostratus' Heroicus or Lucian's True
History, for instance, these texts made use of same meter as their Homeric
hypotexts. Nestor's and Triphiodorus' lipogrammatism re-created the Homeric
poems ...
Vincent Edward Tomasso, 2010
4
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...
In his first novel, Alphabetical Africa, Abish employs the technique of
lipogrammatism, a form of authorial self-constraint in which the author decides
arbitrarily to avoid the use of one or more letters (so Oulipo writer Georges Perec
has written ...
Joel Shatzky, Michael Taub, 1997
5
Against Language?: Dissatisfaction with Language as Theme ...
Of older exclusion patterns, lipogrammatism, the exclusion of a letter, seems to
correspond most closely. But lipogrammatic poems (like Nestor of Laranda's Iliad
in which each book omits one particular letter)54 always seem mainly playful ...
6
Chambers English-Hindi Dictionary
(few) iw fertír^?, $сцц fafa fefa; НЧГГСТТ ЩЩ; adj. lipgram- matic AraWr; ns.
lipogrammatism feffer; lipogrammatist ^"ГРн^Ч+к; lipography ($T«ï 47 згят) fertTi
lippen v.l. & i. зтгат ^пглт; (Scot.) feiRT ЩГХЩ; anfacT Çfe; a^'. lippen- ing (Scott)
...
Sureśa Avasthī, Indujā Avasthī, 1981
... See Mycenaean Greek lipogrammatism, 152n. 18 liquid letters, 52, 55 lisping,
141 f. Longfellow, Henry W., 41 "Longinus," 18, 78 long syllables. See quantity
long words, mimesis by, 105 loudness. See intensity of sound Lucian, 18, 58, 6gn
.
William Bedell Stanford, 1967
8
Lectures on the English Language
In these, a particular letter or letters are excluded, and an ancient poetaster made
himself notorious by a paraphrase of the entire Iliad, which rejected alpha or a,
from the first book, beta or 5 from the second, and so of the rest. Lipogrammatism
...
George Perkins Marsh, 1887
9
The City of Dreaming Books
Take the chapter in which he dispenses with the letter E for a hundred and fifty
pages - a brilliant feat of lipogrammatism! Remember Sir Ginel's jovial little
drinking song?' The Nocturnomath cleared his throat and quoted: 'Come,
landlord, ...
10
The Ladies' Repository
The pedantry of individuals may, no doubt, as the same affectation has done in
Germany and Holland, carry puristic partialities to a length as absurd as
lipogrammatism in literature, but the general familiarity of literary men with classic
and ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIPOGRAMMATISM»
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Lebanese academic writes 109-page novel free of letter 'e'
The technical word for Helou's achievement is "lipogrammatism," which means deliberately omitting a certain letter when writing. The novel ... «Daily Star - Lebanon, Feb 09»
