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Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Book of Snobs.

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et unexamined, but "[t]he national mind is wakened to the subject of snobs" (p. 527). The author dismisses the Snobbish system and states that is the business of the Punch (the name of the magazine in which this series of essays first appeared) to la

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, Tale and Epilogue" from The Canterbury Tales.

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Prologue" The Pardoner introduces his favourite theme with a Latin quotation saying that greed is the root of all evil. He proceeds to describes his business, explaining that he uses supposedly holy relics to enhance people's religious devotion. He

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales.

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iller : physically strong and tough, rough also in character. Deceives his customers, loves drinking and telling ribald tales. The Manciple (i.e. the business agent of a community of lawyers): uneducated but more foxy than most of the lawyers he serv

(28) American Puritanism and Colonial Literature.

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sent Captain Miles Standish & co. to arrest him and deport to En.: 2 x deported, eventually imprisoned in Boston for 2 y. W o r k : - an adventurous businessman and author of travel writings and satires The New English Canaan (1637): - mingles prose

(18) The Birth of Modernism at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.

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graph, ‘Only connect!’: a subject to a narrative play, forms and unforms a series of connections btw characters, and btw antipathetic cultures of business and the intellect x but: aware of its being more easily said than done - incl. an awkward s

(12) New Trends and Genres within Realism of the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.

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nto an establ. and wealthy family; st. Oxford (a barrister, though never practised law) - travelled extensively to look after the family’s shipping business interests - met and befriended J. Conrad on a South Sea voyage - married the ex-wife of one

(6) Victorian Poetry.

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thetic demerits: excessive reliance on italics instead of on meter, frequent prosy flatness x or over-elaborated similes when attempting ‘the grand style’ The Strayed Reveler (1849): his 1 st coll. Also wrote following poems of distinction: “Em

(3) Second Wave of Romanticism.

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ietzsche’s (1844 – 1900) concept of the Superman P o e t r y : = associated with the ‘Satanic School’ (a) old-fashioned lyrics in neo-classic style: “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos”: in the gentlemanly mode of witty extempor

(17) Adverbs.

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ion of Adverbs (1) ADV of manner - formed by -ly : carefully , wisely , easily - formed by -wards/-wise : backwards , clockwise - formed by -fashion/-style /-ways : Indian-fashion , American-style , lengthways - N + PREP idioms: by heart , head over

(47) The Lost Generation and the Jazz Age: Experiment, Myth, and Tradition.

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Paradise to win lit. and financial success to persuade Z. to marry him - married Z. (1920): led a glamorous, extravagant, and emotionally stormy life style - spent 2 y. at a Fr. Riviera seaside resort (1922 – 24): drank to excess, spent more than e

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