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No Sex Please, We're Brutish!: The exploits of a Greek student in Britain
| AUTHOR | Doikas, Spiros |
| PUBLISHER | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform (03/27/2013) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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No Sex Please, We're Brutish is a study on British culture through the eyes of a Greek student who spent five years living and studying in Britain. It is largely based on personal experiences, which are presented in a satirical, and often, caustic manner. In that respect, it could also be described as an approach to the cultural anthropology-or pathology-of the British people. Its points are further illustrated by using excerpts from newspapers, magazines, student prospectuses, books and a variety of other unlikely sources. Thus, it retains the formality of an academic thesis in the vein of social anthropology and field research, with the obvious necessity of substantiating facts, alongside a humorous and creative presentation. I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made privy to one of the most arcane of their utterings. The time was ripe for that major epiphany, my initiation into the sacred knowledge-or should I say the gnosis?-of that all-important, quintessentially Brutish slang term, the word that endless hours of scholastic education by renowned mentors, plus years of scrupulous scrutiny into scrofulous texts, had disappointingly failed to impart to me, leaving me with that deep sense of emptiness begotten by hemimathy; the time was finally ripe for me to be transported by the velvety feel of the unvoiced palato-alveolar fricative, the lan of the unpronounceable and masochistically hedonistic front open-rounded vowel, and, last but not least, the (admittedly short) ejaculatory quality of the voiced velar stop: all three of them combined together to form that miraculous lexical item, the word shag.
-From the book You can read more about the book on its website: www.sex-british.com
-From the book You can read more about the book on its website: www.sex-british.com
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ISBN-13:
9781482640830
ISBN-10:
148264083X
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Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
290
Carton Quantity:
30
Product Dimensions:
5.51 x 0.61 x 8.50 inches
Weight:
0.74 pound(s)
Country of Origin:
US
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No Sex Please, We're Brutish is a study on British culture through the eyes of a Greek student who spent five years living and studying in Britain. It is largely based on personal experiences, which are presented in a satirical, and often, caustic manner. In that respect, it could also be described as an approach to the cultural anthropology-or pathology-of the British people. Its points are further illustrated by using excerpts from newspapers, magazines, student prospectuses, books and a variety of other unlikely sources. Thus, it retains the formality of an academic thesis in the vein of social anthropology and field research, with the obvious necessity of substantiating facts, alongside a humorous and creative presentation. I remember the very day, sometime during the first two weeks of my five-year amorous sojourn in Brutland, when I was made privy to one of the most arcane of their utterings. The time was ripe for that major epiphany, my initiation into the sacred knowledge-or should I say the gnosis?-of that all-important, quintessentially Brutish slang term, the word that endless hours of scholastic education by renowned mentors, plus years of scrupulous scrutiny into scrofulous texts, had disappointingly failed to impart to me, leaving me with that deep sense of emptiness begotten by hemimathy; the time was finally ripe for me to be transported by the velvety feel of the unvoiced palato-alveolar fricative, the lan of the unpronounceable and masochistically hedonistic front open-rounded vowel, and, last but not least, the (admittedly short) ejaculatory quality of the voiced velar stop: all three of them combined together to form that miraculous lexical item, the word shag.
-From the book You can read more about the book on its website: www.sex-british.com
-From the book You can read more about the book on its website: www.sex-british.com
Show More