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Three decades after the reawakening of feminism, no field of scholarship remains unexamined by feminist analysis, a process rhetorician Gay D. Claiborne has defined as an effort to deconstruct the patterns of thinking that lead to a world-view of reality as consisting of oppositional, hierarchically-ordered pairs of things.
Claiborne persevered, however, learned French, changed the laws, and brought his carping constituents into the American fold as citizens of the new State of Louisiana, even though it was very much unlike any other US state.
Companies like Liz Claiborne and MAST Industries are essentially current versions, although their operations are much larger than those of jobbers in the past.
Readers should be familiar with Robert Claiborne's earlier books, especially Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the English Language . One might say that subtitling the present book “A Book of Lost Metaphors” is an example of a loose canon [sic] — unless metaphor is taken in its broadest sense—but one is unlikely to find red herrings here: the etymologies of a few hundred words and phrases are given, many not readily findable in standard works of reference.
Claiborne investigates and reports on expressions like sow one's wild oats , about which he tells us little or nothing: the modern Latinate designation Avena fatua came too many centuries after the original expression to have any relevance to it, so why bring up the information that fatua is Latin for `foolish': it was also Latin for `wild,' which might be more to the point.
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