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Author | : Abdelfattah Kilito |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-11-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0811224945 |
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A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a Borgesian flair for riddles, stories, and subtle scholarly distinctions, Kilito presents an assortment of discussions related to Adam’s tongue, including translation, comparative religion, and lexicography: for example, how, from Babel onward, can we explain the plurality of language? Or can Adam’s poetry be judged aesthetically, the same as any other poem? Drawing from the commentators of the Koran to Walter Benjamin, from the esoteric speculations of Judaism to Herodotus, The Tongue of Adam is a nimble book about the mysterious rise of humankind’s multilingualism.
Author | : Derek Bickerton |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0809022818 |
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One of the world's leading researchers into the evolution of language argues that the acquisition of words changed the structure of early human's brains, which set into motion the limitless creativity that allowed people to make the world that exists today.
Author | : Abdelfattah Kilito |
Publisher | : Darf Publishers Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2018-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1850773114 |
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The Clash of Images is a sweet, Borgesian mix of bildungsroman memoir, family history, short-story collection, fable, and literary criticism. Written in a graceful and charming style, Kilito’s story takes place in an unnamed coastal city of memories where a child experiences first-hand the cultural clash of text and image in a changing, modern society. It is a time when the old Arabic world of texts and oral traditions is making way for something new: the era of the image, the comic book, photo IDs, and the cinema. The stories form a kaleidoscopic memoir of growing up in two worlds, a brilliant mixture of cultural and family history. Here are tales of first kisses and first reads, Tintin and the Prophet Muhammad, fantasies of the Wild West, the inferno of the bathhouse, and the lost paradises of childhood. The Clash of Images is a celebration of the pleasures of storytelling, a magic lantern that delicately reveals how the world of books intimately connects with the world outside their pages.
Author | : Adam Thirlwell |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1429963867 |
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Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste, where he will teach English to the Italian novelist Italo Svevo. Back in Paris, Joyce asks Svevo to deliver a suitcase containing notes for Ulysses, a novel that will be viscerated by the expat Gertrude Stein, whose first published story is based on one by Flaubert. This carousel of influence shows how translation and emigration lead to a new and true history of the novel. We devour novels in translation while believing that style does not translate. But the history of the novel is the history of style. The Delighted States attempts to solve this conundrum while mapping an imaginary country, a country of readers: the Delighted States. This book is a provocation, a box of tricks, a bedside travel book; it is also a work of startling intelligence and originality from one of our finest young writers.
Author | : Adam Rex |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books LLC |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 145218190X |
Download On Account of the Gum Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On Account of the Gum is a book about how the best intentions lead to some of the worst (and funniest) ideas! Serious humor abounds in this story about one kid's hilarious misadventures with gum, and the cumulative buildup of stuff stuck in hair. From the madcap mind of Adam Rex comes a book about the improbable, downright bizarre remedies for a problem kids have faced since the creation of gum. • Features hilarious text with unexpected turns and fun rhymes • Wacky suggestions make this prime for constant giggles and repeat reading • Author Adam Rex has a funny, smart, and relatable style How do you get gum out of your hair—a pair of scissors? Butter? The cat? Call your aunt, she'll know what to do. She doesn't? Try the fire department! With each page turn, this situation—relatable to any family—grows stickier and more desperate. • A wonderful blend of light wordplay, zany humor, and a timeless topic • Perfect for fans of The Day the Crayons Quit and If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don't! • Great for parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and educators who are looking for a funny, relatable tale to read out loud • You'll love this book if you love books like We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins, The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors by Drew Daywalt, and The Bad Seed by Jory John.
Author | : Derek Bickerton |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1429930306 |
Download Bastard Tongues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical accidents have made normal transmission almost impossible. The story focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all—Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. The story is told by Derek Bickerton, who has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. A published novelist, Bickerton (once described as "part scholar, part swashbuckling man of action") does not present his findings in the usual dry academic manner. Instead, you become a companion on his journey of discovery. You learn things as he learned them, share his disappointments and triumphs, explore the exotic locales where he worked, and meet the colorful characters he encountered along the way. The result is a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer, appealing to anyone who has ever wondered how languages grow or what it's like to search the world for new knowledge.
Author | : Adam Smith |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2017-04-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781545276204 |
Download Tongue Twister (+300 Funny, Tricky, Tough Tongue-Twisters for Kids and Adults) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A tongue twister is a phrase that's supposed to be difficult to articulate properly. Often times, they take practice to say correctly. Tongue twisters are good practice for children as they learn to form words, phrases, and vowels. It's hard to say a tongue twister without a smile on your face. Kids will be entertained with these tongue twisters for hours. Also if you want to become a better voiceover actor, singer, or public speaker this book is for you and contains fun and challenging tongue twisters and vocal warm-ups that prepare you to read commercial, promo, narration, trailer, and animation copy with the proper energy and vocal dexterity.
Author | : Shelli Stevens |
Publisher | : Entangled: Select Contemporary |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1640630457 |
Download Tempting Adam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Christy Wallace is a buttoned-up Spanish teacher by day and a salsa dance instructor by night. When she promises one of her friends she’ll pose as his girlfriend, she doesn’t think a little game of pretend would be too complicated. Adam Young is all cowboy. He’s also the owner of Adam’s Apples, the fastest-growing cider business in eastern Washington. But that’s something he doesn’t share with people he meets, including the hot dance instructor he’s been fantasizing about. But he realizes he’s not the only one with a few secrets when Christy walks in to a family event on the arm of his brother. Each book in the Seattle Steam series is STANDALONE: * Grounds for Seduction * Tempting Adam * Seducing Allie
Author | : Edmund Shaftesbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Adam-man (Artificial language) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert G. Brown |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2007-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1430322454 |
Download The Book of Lilith Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The book of Lilith tells the real story of creation. Lilith is the first human to be given a soul by God following a thirteen billion year process of mechanical, soulless evolution. Her job is to give souls to all things and awaken them to the Watcher that watches the watcher, watching the world. The first person she grants a soul to is Adam, who is given a job of his own: to invent the definition of sin, create a moral sense in a world that utterly lacks one, and hence bring about the rule of law in a compassionate society. Unfortunately, Adam has a hard time accepting the fact that he was given his soul second, instead of first, and by Lilith, not God. The conflict this engenders leads to the destruction of Eden, the creation of Eve, and a voyage of self-discovery that spans a world"--P. [4] of cover.