File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9712, message 155


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




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