Name: Studies in Words (Canto Classics)
SKU: 50823899
Price: 28.06 EUR
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Author: C. S. Lewis
ISBN: 9781107688650

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Type

Physical Book

Author

C. S. Lewis

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x13.7x2 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9781107688650

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "Studies in Words (Canto Classics) "

Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analysing their functions. It doubles as an absorbing and entertaining study of verbal communication, its pleasures and problems. The issues revealed are essential to all who read and communicate thoughtfully, and are handled here by a masterful exponent and analyst of the English language.

C. S. Lewis

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Clive Staples Lewis was a critic, academic, and English novelist, considered one of the finest writers of children's and young adult literature in English. A friend and colleague of Tolkien, both had a sharp intellect, a solid education, and a passion for Norse mythology that would mark their major works: the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, in Tolkien, and The Chronicles of Narnia (1950), in CS Lewis. With Narnia, a fantastic and allegorical work about the eternal struggle between good and evil, Lewis inaugurated a genre that would make him a founder and an essential reference in current fantasy narrative.

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