Wordstruck: A MemoirViking, 1989 - 230 sider MacNeil's autobiography re-creates the world of his youth and the experiences that were opened up to him through his love of words. His delight and passion for the music and magic of language, have enabled MacNeil to transmute it into a work of art. Photos. |
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... characters like the Micawbers , who deceive themselves but not us ; characters like Dr. Strong , who are deceived by others with the reader aware ; characters like the Murdstones and Uriah Heep , who proclaim motives transpar- ently ...
... characters like the Micawbers , who deceive themselves but not us ; characters like Dr. Strong , who are deceived by others with the reader aware ; characters like the Murdstones and Uriah Heep , who proclaim motives transpar- ently ...
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... character a deep - though pos- sibly unconscious - spiritual significance . . . . When the land dips astern , wind and sun and great expanse of water provide life's background with a vigour and wholesomeness denied most people who have ...
... character a deep - though pos- sibly unconscious - spiritual significance . . . . When the land dips astern , wind and sun and great expanse of water provide life's background with a vigour and wholesomeness denied most people who have ...
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... character until the sound of his name was fixed in my ear . If I couldn't hear the name , the character couldn't move on the stage of my imagination . We forget perhaps that human language is primarily speech . It has always been and it ...
... character until the sound of his name was fixed in my ear . If I couldn't hear the name , the character couldn't move on the stage of my imagination . We forget perhaps that human language is primarily speech . It has always been and it ...
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Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse Gisli Palsson Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1993 |