10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEOTERIST»
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neoterist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
neoterist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
A neoterist is someone who favors new words and expressions. A phlyarologist is
someone who 'talks nonsense'. A querulistis someone who complains (a lotis
implied). We would all like to feel that we are antisocordists, opponents of sloth or
...
Though Ovid claims, in typically neoterist fashion, 14 to be citing a tradition (fertur
), it does not follow that he merely reflects the thought of his source. Certainly in
no other classical author do we find sexual intercourse intervening so decisively
...
3
China in Transformation
As a result, a new frame of mind has been formed among the Chinese intellectual
elite which may be called the neoterist mentality, a mentality obsessed with
change, with what is new. This mentality is best described in the vivid words of
the ...
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Ideology, Power and Text: Self-representation and the ...
A notion that China could not join the modern world or even survive in it without a
"total demolition of the tradition" — "a neoterist mentality" as Ying-shih Yu terms it
— had been formed among the Chinese intellectual elite, "a mentality ...
Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, 1998
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Conservatism in America Since 1930: A Reader
The radical, when all is said, is a neoterist, in love with change; the conservative,
a man who says with Joubert, Ce sont les crampons qui unissent une generation
a une autre — these ancient institutions of politics and religion. Conservez ce ...
Gregory L. Schneider, 2003
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A reader for writers: a critical anthology of prose readings
13 So much for preliminary delineation. The radical, when all is said, is a
neoterist, in love with change; the conservative, a man who says with Joubert, Ce
sont /es crampons qui unissent une generation a une autre — these ancient ...
Jerome Walter Archer, Joseph Schwartz, 1971
2. avant-gardist, trend-setter, pacesetter, innovator; neologist, neoterist; precursor
, bannerman, forerunner, pioneer, trailblazer, pathfinder. 3. modernizer, reformer,
transformer, innovationist; schismatic, apostate, maverick, Inf. young Turk.
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
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The University Bookman, a Quarterly Review
What's certain is that the New Car ritual has fostered a tremendously neoterist
habit of mind in the body impolitic, complementing the swarm of other neoterist
influences that have devolved from other institutions, including the myth of
Progress, ...
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Every-day English: A Sequel to "Words and Their Uses"
eminent; while, on the other hand, it is not had merely because it is a new word, a
neologism, or a " neoterism," as a " neoterist " — shall I say ? — has chosen to
call such things. But I must withhold myself from expressing the feeling which the
...
Richard Grant White, 1908
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Enemies of the permanent things: observations of abnormity ...
We speak, long later, of an "Age of Milton," an "Age of Dryden," an "Age of
Johnson" — not an age of this or that neoterist. The little dogs and all, Tray,
Blanch, and Sweet-heart, will bark at Eliot; he is feared and disliked by those "
intellectualists" ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEOTERIST»
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The Moral Imagination of Russell Kirk
... heritage of “metaphysical realism,” including hallowed “self-evident truths,” for nominalist and neoterist detail. As G. M. Young lamented in his ... «National Review Online, Sep 14»
