Brewer's Curious Titles

CROFTON, Ian (compiler)

ISBN 10: 0304361305 / ISBN 13: 9780304361304

Verlag: U.K / Cassell, 2002

Beschreibung

This tells the often intriguing, and sometimes surprising, stories behind an array of titles of works of literature, music and the visual arts. Arranged in simple A-Z order by title, it explains the meanings of, and reasons for, the titles of more than 1500 famous and not-so-famous novels, films, poems, plays, paintings and works of classical music. Embracing titles as diverse and as baffling as Flann O'Brien's AT SWIM TWO-BIRDS and Salvador Dali's ATMOSPHERIC SKULL SODOMIZING A GRAND PIANO, BREWER'S CURIOUS TITLES serves up a feast of explanation, allusion, quotation and hidden meaning that will satisfy the appetite of the most inquisitive of cultural magpies. This is a 1st edition paperback in fine condition. (548 pages & 9 pages of introduction).

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6972

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Brewer's Curious Titles
• Verlag: U.K / Cassell
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0304361305
• ISBN-13: 9780304361304
• Einband: Soft cover
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • MUSIC
  • DICTIONARY & REFERENCE
  • LITERARY BIOGRAPHY & ASSORTED

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Inhaltsangabe

BREWER'S CURIOUS TITLES tells the often intriguing, and sometimes surprising, stories behind an array of titles of works of literature, music and the visual arts. Arranged in simple A-Z order by title, it explains the meanings of, and reasons for, the titles of more than 1500 famous and not-so-famous novels, films, poems, plays, paintings and works of classical music. Embracing titles as diverse and as baffling as Flann O'Brien's AT SWIM TWO-BIRDS and Salvador Dali's ATMOSPHERIC SKULL SODOMIZING A GRAND PIANO, BREWER'S CURIOUS TITLES serves up a feast of explanation, allusion, quotation and hidden meaning that will satisfy the appetite of the most inquisitive of cultural magpies.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ian Crofton is a freelance writer and editor. His publications include A DICTIONARY OF MUSICAL QUOTATIONS (with Donald Fraser) and A DICTIONARY OF ART QUOTATIONS, and he was editor-in-chief of THE GUINNESS ENCYCLOPEDIA. He contributed entries on history, music and art to BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF MODERN PHRASE AND FABLE, and has written articles for a number of other children's and adults' reference books.