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Studies in Words
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Studies in Words (1960) (edit title/settings)

Nature Sad Wit Free Sense Simple Conscious Conscience

by C. S. Lewis (Author) (edit contributors)

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Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast... read more

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This book is based on lectures given at Cambridge during the last few years and is primarily addressed to students.

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Preface

1. Introduction
2. Nature (with Phusis, Kind, Physical etc.)
3. Sad (with Gravis)
4. Wit (with Ingenium)
5. Free (with Eleutherios, Liberal, Frank etc.)
6. Sense (with Sentence, Sensibility and Sensible)
7. Simple
8. Conscience and Conscious
9. World
10. Life
11. I Dare Say
12. At the Fringe of Language

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  1. C. S. Lewis (Author)

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Publication Date: 1960
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