PreDictionary - Softcover

Epstein, Mikhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1257831895 ISBN 13: 9781257831890

Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

MIKHAIL EPSTEIN "PreDictionary. Experiments in Verbal Creativity". Mikhail EPSTEIN is a literary scholar and critical thinker and Professor of Cultural Theory at Emory University (Atlanta, USA). PreDictionary is a dictionary of would-be words that are designed to fill gaps in language and generate new concepts and meanings. Focused on the creative potential of a neologism and a dictionary entry, this book is dedicated to both poetry and poetics. The main part of the book includes 150 entries in 14 thematic sections. All new words are supplied with definitions and examples of usage. "Amazing collection of coinages. Much more impressive than the pop proposals of Faith Popcorn. And what a wonderful word is "predictionary"!" --Allan METCALF, Professor of English at MacMurray College and Executive Secretary of the American Dialect Society.

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About the Author

Mikhail N. Epshtein is a literary theorist and critical thinker who moved from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1990. He is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and has conducted research on the future of humanities through Emory's Center for Humanistic Inquiry. He was founder and director of the Laboratory of Modern Culture in Moscow, and he maintains an array of interdisciplinary websites in the humanities, including (in English) InteLnet, Bank of Interdisciplinary Ideas, and Improvisations (Improvnet). He has authored 20 books and approximately 600 essays and articles, translated into 16 languages. He recent books in English include Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (with Ellen Berry, 1999), and Cries in the New Wilderness: From the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism (2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1257831895
• ISBN 13: 9781257831890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142