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Seller notes: “Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Throughout his notable career as a novelist, poet, and ... “Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Throughout his notable career as a novelist, poet, and literary critic, Kingsley Amis was often concerned - the less understanding might say obsessed - with the use and abuse of English. -- Do we know what the words we employ really mean? Do we have the right to use them if we dont? Should an exciting new program be allowed to hit your television screen? Is disinterest a word, or is it ignorance? And just when is one allowed to begin a sentence with and? The enemies of fine prose may dismiss such issues as tiresome and pedantic, but Kingsley Amis, like all great novelists, depended upon these very questions to separate the truth from the lie, both in literature and in life. -- A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in postwar British fiction, The Kings English is the late Kingsley Amiss last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than Fowlers Modem Usage, lighter than the Oxford English Dictionary, and”

EAN: 9780312186012

ISBN: 0312186010

Genre: Studium & Wissen

Thema: Sprache & Literatur

Verlag: New York: St. Martin's Press

Erscheinungsjahr: 1998

Autor: Amis, Kingsley

Sprache: Englisch

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