enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. The Mermaids Singing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mermaids_Singing

    First edition (publ. HarperCollins) The Mermaids Singing is a crime novel by Scottish author Val McDermid. [1] The first featuring her recurring protagonist, Dr. Tony Hill, [2] it was adapted into the pilot episode of ITV1's television series based on McDermid's work, Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris.

  3. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

    Borogove: Following the poem Humpty Dumpty says: " 'borogove' is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop." In Mischmasch borogoves are described differently: "An extinct kind of Parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials: lived on veal."

  4. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_devices

    Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions in the setting the tone, mood, and atmosphere of a poem to convey the poet's intention.

  5. Mark Stevenson - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Stevenson

    Stevenson's lecture "The Future and What to do About It" at QED 2016. Mark Stevenson (born 1971) is a London-based British writer, businessman, public speaker and 'reluctant' futurologist, as well as a semi-professional musician and former comedian.

  6. Frank Cottrell-Boyce - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Cottrell-Boyce

    This is Manchester. We do things differently. This is the second act” which Cottrell-Boyce has stated was due to criticism of the script not following the three act structure. [16] In addition to original scripts, Cottrell-Boyce has also adapted novels for the screen and written children's fiction.

  7. Reader-response criticism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader-response_criticism

    "Both [may] be looking at the same collection of stars, but one will see the image of a plough, and the other will make out a dipper. The 'stars' in a literary text are fixed, the lines that join them are variable." [18] The Iserian reader contributes to the meaning of the text, but limits are placed on this reader by the text itself.

  8. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com/?rp=webmail-std/en-us/basic

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

  9. Deconstruction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction

    Here, the meaning of a text does not reside with the author or the author's intentions because it is dependent on the interaction between reader and text. [46] Even the process of translation is also seen as transformative since it "modifies the original even as it modifies the translating language".