10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TENDENCIOUS»
Discover the use of
tendencious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tendencious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic
Our Soviet literature is not afraid of the charge of being "tendencious." Yes, Soviet
literature is tendencious, for in an epoch of class struggle there is not and cannot
be a literature which is not class literature, not tendencious, allegedly ...
2
Radical Representations: Politics and Form in U.S. ...
Lunacharski signified by "tendencious" the process by which the writer "seeks to
organize his material toward a definite end." Zhdanov claimed that "Soviet
literature is tendencious, for in an epoch of class struggle there is not and cannot
be a ...
3
Vocabulary Building for a Masters Degree
TENDENCIOUS. • The editorials inthis periodical aretendentious rather than truth
seeking. • Tendentious (adj): marked bya tendency in favor of a particular point of
view: biased. • : having an aim; biased; designed.
Idoniboye B. Bagshaw, 2014
4
Arab Attitudes to Israel
It should be noted that this criticism is, in the main, tendencious, as it aims at
stimulating the Arabs to reform and national unity. Sometimes such things are
said, not out of conviction of their truth but in order to achieve extrinsic aims or
score off ...
5
Indians of the Andes: Aymaras and Quechuas
Whether a writer is or is not tendencious in either direction has little to do with his
reliability as a source. Sarmiento, although outstandingly tendencious, is a most
useful historical source. I shall now give a brief description of a few of the more ...
6
Indo-European Folk-tales and Greek Legend
To this class belong all foundation legends. No doubt a great many may contain
some elements of real fact, but all have been worked over for tendencious
purposes until there is little means of discerning what is fact and what deliberate
fiction.
William Reginald Halliday, 1933
7
Humor in the Advertising Business: Theory, Practice, and Wit
... full comedy Aggressive Freud Nontendencious wit Tendencious wit
Tendencious wit Catanescu and Tom Toncar Comparison, personification,
exaggeration, pun, silliness, surprise Pun, understatement, joke, ludicrous, irony,
satire Sarcasm ...
8
A history of the German novelle from Goethe to Thomas Mann...
treatment of the genre had no real or lasting influence upon its development,
except in so far as it revealed to the Jung Deutschland writers the possibility of
using the Novelle form for their own tendencious purposes. In spite of certain ...
9
The Economic and Social Foundations of European Civilization
In this connection the remarkable amount of archaeological information scattered
among the scanty contents of the Gena is no longer harmless, but becomes an
expedient deliberately introduced to support an all too obvious tendencious ...
10
Rereadings: Eight Early French Novels
... which it calls etre amoureux and which are, in Valmont's perspective, a ridicule.
"Mon coeur trop plein ne put retenir ni ses discours ni ses larmes" (36) and
numerous other such evocations are tendencious in that they participate in a
rhetoric ...
