Eric Partridge (1894–1979)
Autor/a de Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English
Sobre l'autor
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Also wrote novels as Corrie Denison.
Crèdit de la imatge: G88keeper
Obres de Eric Partridge
Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: From a Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric… (1989) 363 exemplars
A dictionary of catch phrases, American and British, from the sixteenth century to the present day (1977) 143 exemplars
Slang today and yesterday: With a short historical sketch and vocabularies of English, American, and Australian slang (1933) 50 exemplars
From Sanskrit to Brazil;: Vignettes and essays upon languages (Select bibliographies reprint series) (1952) 14 exemplars
Name into Word - Proper Names That Have Become Common Property: A Discursive Dictionary (1949) 10 exemplars
The world of words : an introduction to language in general and to English and American in particular (1970) 8 exemplars
Three personal records of the war — Autor — 7 exemplars
An original issue of "The Spectator" together with the story of the famous English periodical and of its founders (1939) 5 exemplars
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 4 exemplars
What's the meaning? 3 exemplars
Gentle Art of Lexicography: As Pursued and Experienced by an Addict (Classic Reprint) (2015) 3 exemplars
A dictionary of abbreviations : with especial attention to war-time abbreviations (2015) 3 exemplars
English: a course for human beings Book II 2 exemplars
Christmas and New Year greetings 1927 1 exemplars
Christmas and New Year Greetings 1952-1966 1 exemplars
Dictionary of Effective Speech 1 exemplars
The Partisan Review 1 exemplars
Pirates, highwaymen and adventurers 1 exemplars
A book of essential quotations 1 exemplars
The scene is changed 1 exemplars
Précis writing : passages judiciously selected with an introduction on the art of précis (2015) 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Partridge, Eric
- Altres noms
- Denison, Corrie (pseudonym)
Vigilans
Ray, James - Data de naixement
- 1894-02-06
- Data de defunció
- 1979-06-01
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- New Zealand
- Lloc de naixement
- Waimata Valley, New Zealand
- Lloc de defunció
- Moretonhampstead, Devon, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
England, UK - Educació
- University of Queensland
University of Oxford (Balliol College)
Toowoomba Grammar School, Australia - Professions
- lexicographer
expert on slang - Organitzacions
- Australian Army (WWI)
British Museum Library
Scholartis Press - Biografia breu
- Eric Partridge was born on the North Island of New Zealand. In 1907, the family moved to Australia, where Partridge studied first classics and then French and English at the University of Queensland. During this time, he also taught for three years before joining the Australian infantry during the World War I. Partridge returned to university between 1919 and 1921, when he received his BA. He then became Queensland Travelling Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He then taught briefly in a grammar school in Lancashire, and held lectureships at the Universities of Manchester and London. In 1923, he began work at the British Museum where he stayed for the next 50 years. In 1925 he married Agnes Dora Vye-Parminter, with whom he had a daughter. In 1927 he founded the small private Scholartis Press. During World War II, he served in the Army Education Corps and the RAF's correspondence department, before returning to his desk at the British Museum.
- Nota de desambiguació
- Also wrote novels as Corrie Denison.
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 76
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 3,616
- Popularitat
- #7,002
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 30
- ISBN
- 183
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 4
So, top marks for Partridge for putting together a glossary that finds some remarkably obscure dirty words in Shakespeare. Love it.
The opening essay is more of a mixed bag, to be honest. One-third is great, just in justifying Shakespeare's use of smut (nowadays, as we know more about theatre production and can equate it with the 17th century, we need this less). One-third is really just a recap of the glossary, since clearly Partridge is feeling pretty defensive. The other third is... more pretentious. And unpleasant. It's Partridge's overly psychologically telling explanation of why Shakespeare was expressly heterosexual. Now, don't get me wrong, I believe Shakespeare was at most bisexual, and ultimately it doesn't matter. But Partridge - while certainly "tolerant" of the deviant homosexuals he sees everywhere around him - directly appeals to his heterosexual readers to show less bias and to appreciate that only a straight man would make so many vagina jokes while writing a play for a mainstream audience. Um, Eric? Half of my friends are homosexual writers and/or comedians, and very few of them are afraid to discuss the pudenda. At length. But, thanks for playing.
So, his contributions far outweigh his puzzling psychological tells, but this book is probably outdated nonetheless.… (més)