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Mooreeffoc
Mooreeffoc, also known as The Mooreeffoc Effect, denotes the queerness of things that have become commonplace, when they are seen suddenly from a new angle. The coinage is generally attributed to G K Chesterton, although the incident that led to it actually occurred to Charles Dickens. The word was first mentioned by Dickens in his autobiography. In a coffee room he visited regularly, he looked up at the glass window-sign from the inside and saw ''moor eeffoc''. He attributed profound significance to this trivial realization, and he related it to our ability to gain new perspective on familiar things that have become trite because of time or use. Chesterton, in his 1906 book '' Charles Dickens: a Critical Study'', commented that Dickens's writing shows this "elvish kind of realism...everywhere". J. R. R. Tolkien also used the word in the same sense in his essay ''On Fairy-stories''. See also *Nacirema Nacirema ("American" spelled backwards) is a term used in anthropology a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Fairy-stories
"On Fairy-Stories" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy story as a literary form. It was written as a lecture entitled "Fairy Stories" for the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, on 8 March 1939. The essay is significant because it contains Tolkien's explanation of his philosophy on fantasy and thoughts on mythopoeia. Moreover, the essay is an early analysis of speculative fiction by one of the most important authors in the genre. Alongside his 1936 essay " ''Beowulf'': The Monsters and the Critics", it is his most influential scholarly work. Literary context J. R. R. Tolkien was a professional philologist as well as an author of fiction, starting with the children's book ''The Hobbit'' in 1937; he had not intended to write a sequel. The Andrew Lang Lecture was important as it brought him to clarify for himself his view of fairy stories as a legitimate literary genre, rather than something intended exclusively for children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G K Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, '' Time'' observed: "Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as ''Orthodoxy'' and ''The Everlasting Man''. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin. Biography Early life Ches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years he returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, for education, and for other social re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Critical Study
''John Banville: A Critical Study'' is a 1991 book by Joseph McMinn, which deals with the work of major turn of the century writer John Banville. It is part of ''Gill's Studies in Irish Literature'' series. McMinn claims to take a different approach to the " formalist" Rüdiger Imhof, who had until that time been the only other writer to treat of Banville's fiction (in his 1989 book '' John Banville: A Critical Introduction''). As the book was published in 1991, it deals only with Banville's works as far as the late-1980s. Almost two thirds of the book focus on the novels ''Doctor Copernicus'', ''Kepler'', ''The Newton Letter'' and ''Mefisto'', while the remaining third focus on the short stories, the two early novels and the recently published work ''The Book of Evidence''. Gerry Dukes, reviewing McMinn's book for ''Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review'', described it as "not particularly distinguished... in that, while it promises much, it contrives to deliver very little of criti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nacirema
Nacirema ("American" spelled backwards) is a term used in anthropology and sociology in relation to aspects of the behavior and society of citizens of the United States of America. The neologism attempts to create a deliberate sense of self-distancing in order that American anthropologists might look at their own culture more objectively. "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" The original use of the term in a social science context was in "Body Ritual among the Nacirema", which satire, satirizes anthropological papers on "other" cultures, and the culture of the United States. Horace Mitchell Miner wrote the paper and originally published it in the June 1956 edition of ''American Anthropologist''. In the paper, Miner describes the Nacirema, a little-known tribe living in North America. The way in which he writes about the curious practices that this group performs distances readers from the fact that the North American group described actually corresponds to modern-day Americans of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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