A Passion for Diphthongs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4868840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chandak Sengoopta (0000-0001-5315-7878, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 263-270 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/57.1.263 |
| OpenAlex | W1999134194 |
| Language | EN |
I wish this piece could begin like Orhan Pamuk's novel The New Life: 'I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.This was the kind of light within which I could recast myself; I could lose my way in this light; I already sensed in the light the shadows of an existence I had yet to know and embrace'.My historic passion (such as it is) did not, alas, announce itself with any grandeur.I was pushed, to be sure, into 'an existence I had yet to know and embrace' but by numerous unpredictable encounters
Diphthong · Linguistics · Passion · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Samuel Beckett and Modernism · Social Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |