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LINGUISTICS, TERMINOLOGY, HISTORY OF LITERATURE:  

Esperanto - Terminologie und Terminologiearbeit.
By Wera Blanke

Collection of articles in English and German...

... about Terminological standardization, its roots and fruits in planned languages; i.a. about the influence of interlinguists and Esperanto speakers Eugen Wüster and Ernest Drezen on the development of international terminology standards.
Der vorliegende Band behandelt weitgehend unbekannte plansprachliche Aspekte der Terminologiewissenschaft sowie Ergebnisse terminologischer Aktivitäten in der Sprachgemeinschaft des Esperanto. More...

Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto.
By Geoffrey Sutton
Hardcover, dust jacket, 740 pages; 9" x 6".

This outstanding work of scholarly reference appears in English for the first time. No other such extensive descriptive work is available on this global cultural phenomenon. Esperanto is the only planned international language to have become the vernacular and literary medium of a widespread speech community. This work charts the evolution of its original literature from its humble beginnings in 1887 to its worldwide use in every literary genre in the present day. More...

The Critic as Artist:
Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything.
By Oscar Wilde

Essays

"Criticism is itself an art." – This is one of the singular arguments in what must be one of Oscar Wilde's most compelling critical dialogues ever published. The Critic as Artist explores Wilde's defense of criticism through sharp, witty dialogue and riveting, thoughtful arguments.

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Recollections of Oscar Wilde.
By André Gide et al.

Biographical texts / Memories

Three men of literature - Nobel Prize winner André Gide, the French Ernest La Jeunesse and the German Franz Blei - present their "Recollections" of the last years of Oscar Wilde. More...

   
 

 

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