Hyphen Heaven.
This article presents a survey of hyphenated epithets, or "Homeric epithets," as the author calls them, found in the "Time" magazine online archives after they are made available for free. He categorizes descriptive phrases according to body part, such as teeth ("snaggle-toothed"), eyes ("racoon-eye...
| Publicado en: | Columbia Journalism Review Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 10 - 12 |
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Columbia Journalism Review
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| Sumario: | This article presents a survey of hyphenated epithets, or "Homeric epithets," as the author calls them, found in the "Time" magazine online archives after they are made available for free. He categorizes descriptive phrases according to body part, such as teeth ("snaggle-toothed"), eyes ("racoon-eyed"), etc. He attributes the magazine's style to the influence of founders Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. |
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