Ordered By Words

William Faulkner created compelling worlds with his words, but he repeatedly used his characters to warn against words. Relying on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of language as both the creation of its user and a social construct, Judith Lockyer outlines Faulkner’s discovery of the power and danger in language. Five of Faulkner’s characters—Horace Benbow, Quentin Compson, Darl Bundren, Isaac McCaslin, and Gavin Stevens—were endowed with a desire for the absolute, inviolable word. Faulkner both shares that desire and argues against it, making the dialogue about language the subtext of all his novels. Here, this continuing dialogue is traced chronologically from Flags in the Dust (Faulkner’s third novel) to A Fable (a late novel here shown in a revealing new light). Lockyer also connects Faulkner’s ideas about language and narration to his social and thematic concerns, particularly to America’s legacy of racial strife. This is a coherent, convincing reading of Faulkner, from the time he finds his true voice and subject in the South through the late novels.

New edition of a pioneering work on word order, which originally appeared in French in 1844 (3rd ed., 1879), with an index.

200 Exercises for practicing your letter sequencing skills Sample This: Letter-Order: Exercise - 01 Rewrite the following words in correct letter-order: WRONG LETTER-ORDER 01. I A E N T U M I T G D 02. M E A M S R L 03. P O N C E D I E T 04. E H P L S A S 05. P T L Y L P F N I A 06. K E R C W G E A 07. U H L D D D E 08. N N C Y E D P E D E 09. N S A B T L U O I 10. R T D B E S T C A A 11. L E A W D D 12. A F L I I L 13. L E O C D D 14. U O N O C L L I S 15. A M I N T I I D T O N I 16. T I O I N N A I T V 17. M E Y S S 18. N Y A R E 19. M R A N I N T E E C E P 20. I A T E O F C C N S 21. T C T C O I S U V E N R 22. N I O N C O R O T A 23. O H R N G E A V 24. E R E N E D G A 25. Y A V V S ANSWERS TO THE EXERCISE 01 (CORRECT LETTER-ORDER) 01. unmitigated | 02. slammer | 03. deception | 04. hapless | 05. flippantly | 06. wreckage | 07. huddled | 08. dependency | 09. ablutions | 10. abstracted | 11. dawdle | 12. filial | 13. coddle | 14. collusion | 15. intimidation | 16. invitation | 17. messy | 18. yearn | 19. intemperance | 20. confiscate | 21. constructive | 22. coronation | 23. hangover | 24. renegade | 25. savvy Letter-Order: Exercise - 02 Rewrite the following words in correct letter-order: WRONG LETTER-ORDER 01. P E I N I N X D E T E 02. E E N I T N R I G D 03. P I N I S I D 04. L R E P E C D U 05. L S T O N Y I 06. E F A B L D 07. L O W B B E 08. I A R O E C L A T N M 09. L N T U F A T E L 10. Y C U S H 11. M Y W A M H 12. E D I R A T G U T 13. G S O U E C R 14. D I L A E D V R E 15. N P E L I E B A 16. H S E A T W 17. F C E E O M R I N R E N T 18. N B I I L N C I I V I T Y 19. E L M D D E 20. N S L O R Y V E U A 21. E T I J T S R 22. S S N R U T I E S 23. A O N I S T N C M O U S I 24. U U S B T N O O E 25. S I A S T S ANSWERS TO THE EXERCISE 02 (CORRECT LETTER-ORDER) 01. inexpedient | 02. ingredient | 03. insipid | 04. preclude | 05. stonily | 06. fabled | 07. wobble | 08. reclamation | 09. flatulent | 10. cushy | 11. whammy | 12. gratitude | 13. scourge | 14. daredevil | 15. plebeian | 16. swathe | 17. reinforcement | 18. invincibility | 19. meddle | 20. ravenously | 21. jitters | 22. rustiness | 23. sanctimonious | 24. bounteous | 25. stasis

In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers through poetry's mysterious twilight communiques. For this new second edition, Dobyns has added two new essays, one dealing with the idea of "beauty" in poetry and another dealing with the almost mystical way poets connect seemingly disparate elements in a single work.

The apostle Paul was a man of many journeys. We are usually familiar with the geographical ones he made in his own time. This volume traces others--Paul's journeys in our time, as he is co-opted or invited to travel (sometimes as abused slave, sometimes as trusted guide) with modern and recent Continental philosophers and political theorists. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Benjamin; Taubes, Badiou, Zizek, and Agamben--Paul journeys here among the philosophers. In these essays you are invited to travel with them into the regions of philosophy, hermeneutics, political theory, and theology. You will certainly hear the philosophers speak. But Paul will not remain silent. Above the sounds of the journey his voice comes through, loud and clear.