Stuart D Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5382425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart D Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart D |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9330-8770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The terrorist, the artist and the citizen: Oscar Wilde and Vera
This article links Oscar Wilde’s prose writings with his earliest drama Vera, or The Nihilists (1880, rev., 1883) and suggests how the idea of terrorism and political violence was a spectacle and threat that Wilde acknowledged and encompassed in his writing and thought. I discuss Wilde’s adoption of a Hegelian view of the development of civilisation and suggest that during his 1895 trials he cast himself self-consciously as at once agitator and s…
British-American Differentiations in Syntax and Idiom
I TIS FREQUENTLY said that the only important differences between British and American English are those in pronunciation and vocabulary. The proportionate space given to these subjects in Professor Krapp's English Language in America may, it seems fair to assume, be taken as representative of the usual belief that other variations are relatively negligible: 256 pages are devoted to vocabulary and kindred topics, 251 to pronunciation, 22 to spell…
Notes on The American Language
THE latest edition of Mr. Mencken's book The American Language has been greeted with most exceptional popular approval and critical praise. This reception, in the opinion of the present writer, the solid merits of the work thoroughly deserve. Nevertheless, it may be worth while to point out that the book is not quite the flawless masterpiece that some of the more enthusiastic reviewers have proclaimed it to be. The following comments do not attem…
The Development of Modern English
American Speech according to Galsworthy
MR. Galsworthy has often spoken with eloquence and sincerity of the extreme desirability of Anglo-American friendship and mutual understanding, to him an essential condition for the peace of the world. In an essay he wrote some fifteen years ago, and Briton,' he argued astutely that one of the difficulties is that we are definitely cousins-always an awkward relationship. . . . feel near he continued, yet far enough, to criticize and carp at point…
American Speech according to Galsworthy
MR. Galsworthy has often spoken with eloquence and sincerity of the extreme desirability of Anglo-American friendship and mutual understanding, to him an essential condition for the peace of the world. In an essay he wrote some fifteen years ago, and Briton,' he argued astutely that one of the difficulties is that we are definitely cousins-always an awkward relationship. . . . feel near he continued, yet far enough, to criticize and carp at point…
The Development of Modern English
Notes on The American Language
THE latest edition of Mr. Mencken's book The American Language has been greeted with most exceptional popular approval and critical praise. This reception, in the opinion of the present writer, the solid merits of the work thoroughly deserve. Nevertheless, it may be worth while to point out that the book is not quite the flawless masterpiece that some of the more enthusiastic reviewers have proclaimed it to be. The following comments do not attem…
British-American Differentiations in Syntax and Idiom
I TIS FREQUENTLY said that the only important differences between British and American English are those in pronunciation and vocabulary. The proportionate space given to these subjects in Professor Krapp's English Language in America may, it seems fair to assume, be taken as representative of the usual belief that other variations are relatively negligible: 256 pages are devoted to vocabulary and kindred topics, 251 to pronunciation, 22 to spell…
The terrorist, the artist and the citizen: Oscar Wilde and Vera
This article links Oscar Wilde’s prose writings with his earliest drama Vera, or The Nihilists (1880, rev., 1883) and suggests how the idea of terrorism and political violence was a spectacle and threat that Wilde acknowledged and encompassed in his writing and thought. I discuss Wilde’s adoption of a Hegelian view of the development of civilisation and suggest that during his 1895 trials he cast himself self-consciously as at once agitator and s…
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