note on Aristotle and the Organon
‘The original is unfaithful to the translation. — Borges, On Henley’s translattion of Beckford’s Vathek,...
‘The original is unfaithful to the translation. — Borges, On Henley’s translattion of Beckford’s Vathek,...
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. – Jorge...
Allegory A story or fable employed for its similarity and symbolic portent for a real-world situation. e.g An army of...
Preamble A civil war against the oppressor has been a success and the three revolutionary parties, each faction representing an...
Excursis (digressio, parecbasis) An aside or digression from the main thread of story or argument. Exouthenismos A statement aiming scorn...
Accumulatio Summing up in conclusion all the points contributing to an argument or put forward in a...
Alliteration A series of words beginning with the same letter or sound. Anadiplosis Repetition of the final word of one...
Hyperbole Exaggeration in a phrase or statement for effect, often to the point of absurdity. e.g The temperature...
Research on music and dvd industry sales released in September 2003 by US-based Forrester Research indicates global music piracy has...
For the purposes of a model for fictionality propositions, meanings and concepts are deployed as abstract, dimensionless, and absolute objects....