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Backward Glances
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Backward Glances

Focusing upon gay street life in London and New York, Mark Turner presents this gay urban history of male street cruising.

The Origin of Ideas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

The Origin of Ideas

Humans are unique among all other species in having one cognitive attribute-the ability, almost without conscious effort, to engage in blending. This is the first book that brings the theory of blending to a wide audience and shows how blending is at the heart of the origin of ideas.

Clear and Simple as the Truth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Clear and Simple as the Truth

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recog...

The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the collection features essays on virtually every topic relevant to Trollope research, including the law, gender, politics, evolution, race, anti-Semitism, biography, philosophy, illustration, aging, sport, emigration, and the global and regional worlds.

Turner-Turner-Turner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Turner-Turner-Turner

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995-02-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Way We Think
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

The Way We Think

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-08-06
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition -- the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive science is increasingly focused on the more mysterious, creative aspects of the mind. The Way We Think is a landmark synthesis that exemplifies this new direction. The theory of conceptual blending is already widely known in laboratories throughout the world; this book is its definitive statement. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that all learning and all thinking consist of blends of m...

The Forest of Symbols
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

The Forest of Symbols

Collection of 10 articles previously published on various aspects of ritual symbolism among the Ndembu of Zambia; p.83-4; brief mention of C.P. Mountford on Aboriginal colour symbolism; Primarly for use in cultural comparison.

Reading Minds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Reading Minds

The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, Mark Turner offers a vision of the central role that language and the arts of language can play in that adventure.

The Literary Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

The Literary Mind

Turner argues that story, projection, and parable precede grammar, that language follows from these mental capacities as a consequence. Language, he concludes, is the child of the literary mind.