Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hansol Vernon Chwe (born February 18, 1998), known mononymously as Vernon (Korean: 버논), is a South Korean [1] and American [2] rapper, singer and songwriter. He is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen under Pledis Entertainment. [3] Vernon released his first solo mixtape, Black Eye, on December 27, 2022. [4]
Rudy Ray Moore, known as "Dolemite", is well known for having used the term in his comedic performances.While signifyin(g) is the term coined by Henry Louis Gates Jr. to represent a black vernacular, the idea stems from the thoughts of Ferdinand De Saussure and the process of signifying—"the association between words and the ideas they indicate."
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the French-born British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Having experienced rejection with his earlier publication attempts, Vian marketed I Spit on Your Graves as a "translation" of an original work by a certain Vernon Sullivan, allegedly an African-American writer of hardboiled fiction —a genre very popular at the time.
Barbara Smith's 1977 essay "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism" argues that Toni Morrison's Sula is a work of Black feminism, as it presents a lesbian perspective that challenges heterosexual relationships and the conventional family unit. Smith states, “Consciously or not, Morrison's work poses both lesbian and feminist questions about Black ...
Anastasia Blackwell, The House on Black Lake (2010) Algernon Blackwood, The Willows (1907) Robert Bloch, Black Bargain (1942) and Psycho (1959) Petrus Borel, Champavert, contes immoraux (1833) Marjorie Bowen, Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist (1909) Ray Bradbury, The Fog Horn (1951) Ivo Brešan, Cathedral (2007) [2]
Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortune of a handful of unnamed characters who are among the first to be stricken with blindness, including an ophthalmologist, several of his patients, and assorted others, who are thrown together by chance.