10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARACHRONISM»
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parachronism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
parachronism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and ...
Parachronism. in. Cosmopolis. For DeLillo the collapse of the past into the
present is manifested in Packer's concern for the anachronistic quality of words
and concepts that describes phenomena ill-suited to his futuristic present. From
the ...
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Isms: From Autoeroticism to Zoroastrianism--an Irreverent ...
Parachronism: If you guessed this was dated correctly, you 00 10. were very
close. Rome was sacked by the Goths a century later, in A.D. 410. . Prochronism:
While we don't know whether King Arthur was a real monarch, most historians
agree ...
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Walker remodelled, a new critical pronouncing dictionary of ...
PARACHRONISM,. par-5ck'-ron-Tzm,. 87,. 1G3,. 158:*. (See Para-.) A deviation
out 0/ the true course of time, — an error in chronology. PARACHUTE, paY-d-
shoot", [Fr.] 170: *. (Sre Para-.) An instrument like an umbrella used in aerostation
for ...
Benjamin Humphrey Smart, John Walker, 1836
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Setting, Including: Alternate History, Anachronism, ...
This particular book is a collaboration focused on Setting.More info: Setting may refer to: * Set construction in theatrical scenery * Setting (fiction) in fiction * Campaign setting in role playing games * Typesetting * Set (music)
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The Presbyterian Quarterly Review
Here then is an apparent parachronism. How could Daniel have been taken and
sent into exile by king Nebuchadnezzar, educated three years, and then be
called to interpret a dream in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign ?
B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes, 1853
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Political Theory: Tradition and Diversity
This is what David Wootton has called 'parachronism', something he sees
modern historians prone to because of their fear of anachronism, 'prochronism' (
see Wootton 1994: 414). In one respect 'parachronism' is simply the other side of
the ...
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Dennis Normile, “Ecology: Getting at the Roots of Killer Dust Storms,” Science, 20
July 2007, at 317. amuck. See amok. amuse. See bemuse. an. See a (A). *
anachronic. See anachronistic. anachronism; *parachronism; prochronism;
archaism.
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Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World: A Comparative ...
... being; the plants acquired as a result the power to spring up after having been
cut down. The same seeming parachronism appears in the Nihon Sho-lei, San-
kishi Tanjo myth, Main Variant, which relates that Izana-ki's son, the deity Susa ...
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Mythical Stone: Mythological Essays
51 The same seeming parachronism appears in the Nihon Sho-hi, Sankishi
Tanjo myth, Main Variant, which relates that Izana-ki's son, the deity Susa no W0
“brought many of the people [hito husa] to an untimely end” (Aston 1956, I: 19).
Here then is an apparent parachronism. How could Daniel have been taken and
sent into exile by king Nebuchadnezzar, educated three years,, and then be
called to interpret a dream in the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign ?
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARACHRONISM»
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parachronism is used in the context of the following news items.
Students Spell Their Way To Success At Jungle Island
Some of the words students had to spell included: parachronism, multifarious, rubescent, etc. Jonathan Elisabeth, a 5th grader at Princeton ... «CBS Local, Mar 13»
Teachers Union and School Board Still at Impasse After Latest …
I know that is not “news” but sure it this must now be seen as an parachronism. Page 15: “Teachers assigned to a sixth period five days a week ... «Planet Princeton, Jan 12»
