scare quotes or scarequotes

Clip source: scare quotes scare quotes (idea)See all of scare quotes, no other writeups in this node.(idea)by Ashigaru(3.3 mon)Rep: 16 ( +17 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Fri Mar 11 2005 at 0:49:18 Scare quotes are quotation marks used to distance the speaker from the words in question, rather than to mark a direct quotation. Scare quotes are usually used to connote a tone of sarcasm or suggest that the opposite of what the quoted words suggest is the actual truth, implying that these are "their wor...

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Kyle Smith on writing and joking - National Review 1 Aug 2022 print edition

Contemporary English Homers - Homer in Print - The University of Chicago Library

Contemporary English Homers During the second half of the twentieth century and continuing into the twenty-first, poets, classicists, and others have produced an astounding number of distinguished English translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This may be surprising at first, since the study of Greek and of the Homeric te...

Robert Burns

RB is also Roast Beef and Roland Barthes! -zas Jun 2022 Robert Burns (person) See all of Robert Burns, there is 1 more in this node. (person) by Gone Jackal (2.9 mon) Rep: 51 ( +52 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jan 15 2001 at 17:32:42 A short, oversimplified biography: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759 in Alloway, a village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to a poor but educated farmer. Since the village was too poor to afford a school master, he was educated by his fath...

Story idea from Dream Log - 17 Aug 2000

Just an idea: make this into a real fiction story? Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Dream Log: August 17, 2000 (thing) See all of Dream Log: August 17, 2000, there are 3 more in this node. (thing) by abiessu Thu Aug 17 2000 at 13:42:15 This dream was about coffee (thanks, knifegirl! no, I'm not mad about it, it was an interesting dream . . . [this reference is from a chatterbox conversation earlier in which knifegirl mentioned coffee in some way tha...

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Highlights from our Gold exhibition - Medieval manuscripts blog

Highlights from our Gold exhibition Our new exhibition Gold opens this week. It explores the use of gold in books and documents across twenty countries, seventeen languages, and five major world religions. We show how people have used gold to communicate profound value, both worldly and spiritual, across cultures and time periods. All 50 of the objects in the exhibition are star items. But to whet your appetite, here are some of our highlights: The Harley Golden Gospels The exhibition be...

Ignasi Ribó's “Prose Fiction” published in Persian - Tehran Times

TEHRAN – "Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative" by Catalan writer Ignasi Ribó has been published in Persian. Siahrud is the publisher of the book translated by Vafa Miah. This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analyz...

There is a Hidden Way to Tell a story Best - your job as author is to find it

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (Courtesy: Netflix) When Richard Linklater was in second grade, he became enthralled by the historical moment that was happening right in his Houston backyard as NASA prepared for the Apollo moon landing. Decades later, it occurred to Linklater that he was probably the only filmmaker who remembered the excitement of that moment and was also that geographically close to NASA, a realization that led to his latest feature as writer-director, Apol...

Planetary Symbols

☿ is the symbol of the planet Mercury. It is a reference to the Roman god Mercury who was known for wielding caduceus, a staff with two twin snakes wrapped around it.♀is the symbol of the planet Venus. Its origin is disputed with the two most common theories being that it's either a modification of the letter Φ (Phi) or it's meant to be a hand mirror in reference to the love and beauty goddess Venus. You may have noticed that it's also the female symbol in biology which is no coincidence as t...

Also starring a telephone as The Telephone

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Also starring a telephone as "The Telephone" (idea) See all of Also starring a telephone as "The Telephone", no other writeups in this node. (idea) by RalphyK Thu Oct 10 2002 at 22:13:54 You know it when you see it. It's a classic device to increase tension in a movie. The hero goes to see a friendly person who might have information for him. After much questioning, the friendly person denies knowing anything, so eventually the...

Prosopography

Prosopography (idea) See all of Prosopography, no other writeups in this node. Prosopography From the Greek prospon, character and graphy, writing. Prosopography has been defined as the historical study of individuals as groups and groups as individuals.1 an independent science of social history embracing genealogy, onomastics and demography.2 a study that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or li...

Edith Wharton on How to Write a Vivid First Line ‹ Literary Hub

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An Examination of the Trauma Plot

At The New Yorker, Parul Sehgal reflects on the trauma plot and how it has come to dominate stories both on the page and on screen. Sehgal argues that "The trauma plot flattens, distorts, reduces character to symptom, and, in turn, instructs and insists upon its moral authority. The solace of its simplicity comes at no little cost. It disregards what we know and asks that we forget it, too—forget about the pleasures of not knowing, about the unscripted dimensions of suffering, about the odd a...

Lantern (idea) by m_turner - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Lantern (idea) See all of Lantern, there is 1 more in this node. (idea) by m_turner Sun Oct 29 2000 at 21:04:27 A five line poem similar to that of a lune. It has a word count of 1,3,5,3,1. The name of the form is that of the shape of the poem. If you say life is easy, then you must not have known love author unknown I like it! Aristotle's lantern Lune Lantern Night Pinocchio: Chapter 21 Haddon Hal...

Alchemis - The - Things You Might Not Know

Clip source: 15 Things You Might Not Know About ‘The Alchemist’ | Mental Floss 15 Things You Might Not Know About The AlchemistBY Alvin Ward February 25, 2016 (Updated: March 15, 2021) Valerie Hinojosa, Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0 Brazilian author Paulo Coelho’s allegorical novel of a Spanish shepherd has inspired millions of readers to set out searching for their own personal treasures. Here are a few things you may not know about the literary blockbuster. Sponsored 1. Paulo Coelho only neede...

halieutuc - HAL and Ovid and salty fish

halieutic (adj.) "pertaining to fishing," 1854, from Latin halieuticus, from Greek halieutikos "pertaining to fishing," from halieuein "to fish," from hals "the sea," literally "salt" (from PIE root *sal-"salt"). Halieutics "writing on the art of fishing" is from 1640s (Latin Halieutica was the title of a poem on fishing by Ovid).

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From TLS 10 Dec 2021 print edition: page 9:

Best descriptions of winter weather in literature

Oh, the weather outside is frightful! But the reading is so delightful… Weather (sorry) or not you love the snow—blanketing your driveway, stalling your subway lines—it’s hard to deny that there have been some pretty darn good descriptions of it in literature, the kind that make you want to curl up by the fire (or, in my case, the space heater). Personally, I think I like winter weather best when it’s on the page and not the thing standing between me and the closest bar or the corner bodega w...

K as symbol for baseball strikeout - and O as a richly layered historical letter

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I'm Tired of Queer Book Lists Without Context

 Opinion I’m Tired of Queer Book Lists Without Context Danika Ellis | 3 days ago This content contains affiliate links. When you buy throu...

Act of Smelling- The - Camphor and Petrichor

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Isabella Hermann, Artificial intelligence in fiction: between narratives and metaphors - PhilPapers

Artificial intelligence in fiction: between narratives and metaphors Isabella Hermann AI and Society:1-11 (forthcoming) Abstract Science-fiction has become a reference point in the discourse on the ethics and risks surrounding artificial intelligence. Thus, AI in SF—science-fictional AI—is considered part of a larger corpus of ‘AI narratives’ that are analysed as shaping the fears and hopes of the technology. SF, however, is not a foresight or technology assessment, but tell...