10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNREADABLENESS»
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unreadableness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unreadableness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Language for Men of Affairs
The Certain Remedy for Unreadableness " Many are called/' says the Scripture, "
but few are chosen." Some irreverent Yankee paraphrased the saying as: "Many
are called but few get up." The new version is profoundly applicable to success ...
2
Narrative Theory: Major issues in narrative theory
Here description approaches the fantastic - the unknown is used to obscure the
known.32 Type HI Here the author accepts a certain amount of unreadableness
in his description, combining a specialized lexicon of technical terms and a series
...
3
Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400
The text, surviving as a “workshop draft” consisting of “a hodgepodge of scraped
out letters, belated additions and cancelled passages,” is known for its
idiosyncratic orthography and its unreadableness.52 The former characteristic,
which ...
The alleged unreadableness of Finnegans Wake, Butor argues, forbids the
illusion of a complete reading, exposing, in consequence, how illusory such a
reading always is, even when less forbidding books are involved. The
unreadableness ...
James Frederick Mason, Hélène Josephine Harvitt, 1978
5
Philosophical Tales: Being an Alternative History Revealing ...
... the same objection should not lie, he could stop nowhere short of utter
unreadableness, and after all attained no more accuracy than is compatible with
opinions as imperfect and one-sided as those of any poet or sentimentalist
breathing.
6
Hours with the mystics: a contribution to the history of ...
... from condign sentence of unreadableness. It is obvious, after all, that the good
man's inspiration was not born of the mania Plato describes as ' divine transport ;'
that it was akin rather to that morbid activity which is but ' human distemper.
Robert Alfred Vaughan, Wycliffe Vaughan, 1880
It is useless after all to enter into minute criticism of a work, of which the capital
offence is its utter unreadableness : of a work which, pretending to combine
instruction and amusement, can have. no effect but that of wearying the reader in
the ...
8
Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical and ...
In trying to write in a manner against which the same objection should not lie, he
could stop nowhere short of utter unreadableness, and after all attained no more
accuracy than is compatible with opinions as imperfect and one-sided as those ...
9
Persuasive Fictions: Feminist Narrative and Critical Myth
Insofar as reading involves the pinning of the text into its generic place, then the
unreadableness is an intentional effect. Lorde's text exists in a multiplicity of
relations to genres and to institutional structures of criticism. It thus replicates the
...
Mr. Cunningham considers himself ill treated by a paragraph which we some
time ago printed, concerning his Paul Jones, and the unreadableness and
unreasonableness of the same. He opinee> that neither as an author, nor as a
man, does ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNREADABLENESS»
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Wiliam Morris Exhibit at the Central Library
His intention, he said, was “to redeem the Gothic character from the charge of unreadableness which is commonly brought against it.” Morris was a protean ... «Artvoice, Nov 10»
