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The Discovery of a New World (Mundus Alter Et Idem)

Written Originally in Latin by Joseph Hall, Ca. 1605

Joseph Hall

Harvard University Press

The Antarctic Continent was inhabited, it seems, in the days of Queen Elizabeth by four main peoples, the crapulous folk of Tenter-belly, the vira-goes of Shee-landt, the morons of Fooliana, and the pirates and highwaymen of Theevingen. The author of this voyage pretends to have visited all these places, and records his impressions with the circumstantial pen of a journalist, and with an energy and relish barely surpassed by Rabelais himself. The result is unique, for it is the only authentic legend of the Antarctic, and yet it is also a fantasy, a burlesque, a satire, and an encyclopedia of learning, all in one salvo. The editor’s devoted but unobtrusive labors have made this first modern edition of an excessively rare text definitive, and it goes forth with the enthusiastic endorsement of the great explorer to whose achievement it is dedicated as a fitting token of homage.

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Prose Styles

Five Primary Types

Huntington Brown

University of Minnesota Press, 1966

Prose Styles was first published in 1966.How can one distinguish in any text between features answering to the timeless function of its type and those accountable to passing tendencies of periods, fashions, schools, and individual writers? This study is addressed to that general question, and, while it is not a writer’s manual in any sense, it should prove enlightening and helpful to anyone with a genuine interest in style.The author identifies, with concreteness as to detail and illustration, the styles of five broad types of non-metrical communication in spoken or written discourse that have been conspicuous in the culture or life of the western world from remote times. He names these styles the deliberative, the expository, the tumbling, the prophetic, and the indenture. In discussing each, he explains how each set of features is the virtually inevitable articulation of the purpose of a type of transaction the conditions of which have remained constant from age to age. He demonstrates, for example, that there are striking elementary affinities between such otherwise dissimilar works as the Sermon on the Mount and Lamb’s “Dissertation upon Roast Pig,” or between Beowulf and a modern-day newspaper sports column.Dudley Fitts comments: “This is a popular book for the literate public: no ‘easy,’ not ‘superficial,’ but clearly not recondite.”The book will be especially interesting to professional writers, as well as to students and teachers of literature.This is Volume 1, Minnesota Monographs in the Humanities, of which Gerhard H. Weiss is the series editor.

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Rabelais in English Literature

Huntington Brown

Harvard University Press

Traces those motives and modes of expression in English literature from the Elizabethans through the great masters of the eighteenth century which have been inspired or affected by the example of Gargantua and Pantagruel. The material presented is sure to interest both the student of the French Renaissance, as a notable memorial of the vitality of its greatest genius, and the student of English literature, as the makings of a tradition which is clearly in the ascendant today. Appendices include extracts from certain imitators and critics not readily accessible outside large libraries.

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