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Common and Uncommon Quotes: A Theory and History of Epigraphs
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Jared A. Griffin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-07 - Publisher: Vernon Press

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'Common and Uncommon Quotes: A Theory and History of Epigraphs' is a prolegomenon to the study of epigraphic paratextuality. Building on the work of Gerard Gene
Resilience
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Eric Greitens
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A masterpiece of warrior wisdom: how to be resilient, how to overcome obstacles not by "positive thinking" or self-esteem, but by positive action. The bestselli
Middlemarch
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Adam Roberts
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-31 - Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, bu
A Little History of the World
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: E. H. Gombrich
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in Engli
Why Do We Quote?
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Ruth Finnegan
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-01 - Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings