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The Critical Idiom
Tigger Comes to Breakfast
Book by A.A. MILNE
24 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1970
About the author
A.A. Milne
1,902 books3,792 followersAlan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.
A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.
Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.
After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."
He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted".
He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956.
A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.
Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.
After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."
He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted".
He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956.
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October 30, 2022
Sometimes even the most turgid tedious books contain a little gem of information, and this one told me that at the age of 75, Leo Tolstoy re-read ALL of Shakespeare's plays simply in order to confirm his personal opinion that Shakespeare was an awful, terrible writer! All his life he had been baffled by everybody and his uncle raving on about Shakespeare when he, Count Tolstoy, knew - KNEW - that Willie the Shake was a fraudster, a jackanape, a mangler of language and a thief of tales, the worst writer in all of history. Now here he is in his old age thinking well, I dunno, maybe, just maybe everybody is right and I am wrong.... So he re-read the whole lot again and found that in fact he was SO RIGHT!
the works of Shakespeare - borrowed as they are and externally, like mosaics, artificially fitted together piecemeal from bits invented for the occasion - have nothing whatever in common with art and poetry.
I'm thinking that being 75 in Russia in 1903 is the equivalent of being around 110 nowadays and I don't know any 110 year olds who would read through all of Shakespeare to prove a crackbrained theory, so big respect to the Count just for all that crazy reading.
Although the idea of plot in fiction is very interesting - why is there, frinstance, such a polarisation between Art (James Joyce, Faulkner, Infinite Jest - all that plotless maximalisation) and Commerce (soap operas, fantasy epics, Dan Brown - where telling a rattling good story is (Stephen) King) I cannot recommend the other 67 pages of this little book unless you are hot to read about mimesis, poesis, Kierkegaaaaard, Sir Philip Sydney, and a whole lot of other terminal dullards. Somebody needed to have spiked Elizabeth Dipple's tea with LSD. That's what they used to do in 1970 I think?
the works of Shakespeare - borrowed as they are and externally, like mosaics, artificially fitted together piecemeal from bits invented for the occasion - have nothing whatever in common with art and poetry.
I'm thinking that being 75 in Russia in 1903 is the equivalent of being around 110 nowadays and I don't know any 110 year olds who would read through all of Shakespeare to prove a crackbrained theory, so big respect to the Count just for all that crazy reading.
Although the idea of plot in fiction is very interesting - why is there, frinstance, such a polarisation between Art (James Joyce, Faulkner, Infinite Jest - all that plotless maximalisation) and Commerce (soap operas, fantasy epics, Dan Brown - where telling a rattling good story is (Stephen) King) I cannot recommend the other 67 pages of this little book unless you are hot to read about mimesis, poesis, Kierkegaaaaard, Sir Philip Sydney, and a whole lot of other terminal dullards. Somebody needed to have spiked Elizabeth Dipple's tea with LSD. That's what they used to do in 1970 I think?
August 27, 2025
چون به عنوان یه شروع میتونه خوب باشه دوستش داشتم. دقیقا همون نقطهای که من الان هستم توی حیطه پیرنگ. منظورم از اینکه برای شروع میتونه خوب باشه هم اینکه هم توی اصطلاح ها و بخشهایی که توی این بحث وجود دارند میتونه یه نقطه آغاز باشه و هم توی مراحل بعدی چون منبع خوبی هست از بابت ارجاع به کتابها جنبشهای مرتبط.
December 31, 2020
این کتاب برای کسانی است که میخواهند در مورد طرح اصلی داستان و پیرنگ و جزئیات آن بخصوص کشمکش و همچنین انواع پیرنگ در طول تاریخ که از زمان ارسطو مهم بوده تا قرن ۱۸ که در ایتالیا بی ارزش بوده و نویسندگان داستان های خود را بدون پیرنگ می نوشتند!
اگر زیاد نمیخواهید در موردش بدونید و یه توضیحات کلی در موردش بدونید همون کتاب عناصر داستان میرصادقی بهترین منبع هست!
نمره هم ۴ دادم بخاطر اینکه پیرنگ رو در طول تاریخ بخوبی توضیح و بررسی کرده.
اگر زیاد نمیخواهید در موردش بدونید و یه توضیحات کلی در موردش بدونید همون کتاب عناصر داستان میرصادقی بهترین منبع هست!
نمره هم ۴ دادم بخاطر اینکه پیرنگ رو در طول تاریخ بخوبی توضیح و بررسی کرده.
February 6, 2021
پیرنگ رو بیشتر تاریخی بررسی میکنه.
December 4, 2023
این کتاب برای من پیچیده بود. به جای این که در این کتاب روی واژه پیرنگ و موارد استفاده آن را در داستان بازگو کند. بیشتر سیر تاریخی آن را بررسی کرده است.
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