Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 16:00:32 -0500 From: rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu (Reg Lilly) Subject: Re: PLC: Henry Miller and the Academy Who Doesn't Read Him >>hh >> >>PS You haven't heard much from me or Chris lately because we've both been >>engaged in an interprogram battle here at George Mason. We're hoping >>to turn the cultural studies program here into a cultural studies program. >>And that has been absorbing our time. >> >Aside from irony, does anyone else have a rhetorical phrase to describe >what Howard is doing in the above? Does Shaw's comment that the only thing >wrong with Christianity was that it had never been tried participate in >this device? I would be most grateful. Also what is the word used to >describe brand names that have become generic (kleenex, xerox, etc.) I don't know the answer to the first, unfortunately (definitely clue the rest of us in when you find out), but I believe "eponymous" is what you're looking for in the second (though I don't have a dictionary handy to check), though now that I think of it, that's for words taken from people's names, such as a diesel engine or a bowie knife. Ciao, Reg --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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