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Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion
Ilan Stavans
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Description for Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion
hardcover. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: CFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 320.
A dictionary, despite its heroic efforts to pin down language, is destined for failure the moment a single word is printed; for language, with its eternal mutations, is forever uncontainable. Award-winning essayist Ilyan Stavans explores the human need to isolate meaning: owner of hundreds of dictionaries, he follows a fascinating, zigzagging lexicography across many languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Cyrillic. A fabulous selection of strange inconstancies, unusual origins and extraordinary anecdotes.
A dictionary, despite its heroic efforts to pin down language, is destined for failure the moment a single word is printed; for language, with its eternal mutations, is forever uncontainable. Award-winning essayist Ilyan Stavans explores the human need to isolate meaning: owner of hundreds of dictionaries, he follows a fascinating, zigzagging lexicography across many languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Cyrillic. A fabulous selection of strange inconstancies, unusual origins and extraordinary anecdotes.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
MN, United States
ISBN
9781555974190
SKU
V9781555974190
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99-15
About Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latino Studies at Amherst College.
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