Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

View all terms

Showing results by Clare Hayes-Brady only

(noun) a low or downcast state; degradation / (noun) the act of making abject; humbling rejection

(noun) the act of renouncing or rejecting something; self-denial

the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement

the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement

(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation

(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation

(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine

lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide

a contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable; a paradox

art for art's sake

defined by Ricoeur as the balance of the idem and the ipse: one's belief in oneself, which cannot be verified by empirical evidence or extrinsic proof, but is based in confidence

(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"

(noun) a medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones / (noun) the sound of or as if of a clarion / (adjective) brilliantly clear / (adjective) loud and clear

extract the essence from (something) by heating or boiling it

a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments

the view that some statements can be both true and false simultaneously

pertaining to a dialogue; used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in his work of literary theory, The Dialogic Imagination

the process of interpreting a text or portion of text in such a way that the process introduces one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text

(noun) a state of equilibrium / (noun) counterbalance / (verb) to serve as an equipoise to / (verb) to put or hold in equipoise

(noun) cause, origin / (noun) the cause of a disease or abnormal condition / (noun) a branch of knowledge concerned with causes / (noun) a branch of medical science concerned with the causes and origins of diseases

relating to the writing of the lives of saints; (derogatory) adulatory writing about another person

a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other (see DeLillo, Pynchon, DFW, Zadie Smith)

(noun) the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life

just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary

an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)

Showing results by Clare Hayes-Brady only