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June 30, 2016
in Literature

The Demanding Friend and Other Author-Reader Relationships

June 30, 2016
in Literature

Tim Parks— Critics talk a great deal of the contents of books, their style, scope, plot, rhythm, characters, descriptions, and so on, but rarely turn their attention to our reactions to them, and through the books to the authors. Authors are categorized by periods, by ideologies, by the genres they

May 31, 2012
in Humanities, Literature, Social Science

Submit to The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs

May 31, 2012
in Humanities, Literature, Social Science

When three heads are put together, the results can be shockingly revelatory. Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro have now compiled The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, the first proverb dictionary to be based on electronic research from full-text databases. With more than 1,400 entries, this exhaustive collection