The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology

University Alabama Press. New in New dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0817308814 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition with no discernible wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "In The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology by B. M. W. Schrapnel, Ph.D., the pseudonymous critic satirizes a variety of subjects in and out of academe. These adventurous essays include lampoons on writing, language, and literature, and the collection is a delightful spoof of much in contemporary culture- especially areas of intellectual pretension. Readers will be entertained by anachronistic allusions, improbable parodies, whimsical etymologies, tongue-in-cheek word play, and stunning purple prose- examples of just some of the liberties Schrapnel takes with the language. The eccentric Dr. Schrapnel includes a wide array of audience reactionsin the form of bogus letters from fictional readers, confirming that language and literature are everyone's business. He also offers anannual list of words that writers and speakers should use more often- a lexicographer's equivalent to the endangered species list- and coins terms such as prufrockery and grendelish."; 6 X 0.9 X 9 inches; 224 pages .