Name Dropping: Darwinian Struggles, Oedipal Feelings, and Kafkaesque Ordeals---an A to Z Guide to the Use of Names in Everyday Language

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ISBN-10:

0312377398

ISBN-13:

9780312377397

Author(s): GOODEN, PHILIP
Edition: First Edition
Released: Feb 19, 2008
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages

Description:

Have you ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower, perhaps?) or met someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? What exactly do we mean when we describe a scene as Dickensian, or when we call a politician€™s style Churchillian or Thatcherite? What would you call a romantic, brooding, dangerous, and untamed person? Heathcliffian? Byronesque? How about a situation that is nightmarish, torturously bureaucratic, and impossible to escape from? Kafkaesque, maybe? Is Nixonian or Gandalf-like part of your vocabulary? There are hundreds of words derived from real people who are famous---or infamous---enough to give their stamp to a movement, a way of thinking or acting, a style or even a mood. Name Dropping is the essential guide to the better known or more intriguing of these terms from figures in politics, sports, and the arts, as well as history and the classics. It is both for those readers looking for definitions or simply browsing for plea

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