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commonplace book n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc., that catch the owner's attention are entered ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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For example, Shakespeare and his contemporaries learned to compose "by combining bytes of data known as sententiae--loci or loci communes that, as useful phrases, were kept in individual commonplace books, stringing them into orations and even dialogue" (37). We have "official" histories of the twenty-four dynasties and we have the "unofficial" tales spun in commonplace books (biji, drama, fiction and romance, and in histories gleefully titled outre (wai), "secret" (mi), or "wild" (ye). Fox traces the route of these forms from biblical and humanist sources through such genres as "proverb plays" and literary dialogues, and into everyday conversation, commonplace books, and assorted forms of cheap print or even handwriting on the painted cloths hanging in inns, alehouses, and homes. |
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