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Definitions of miscellany in various dictionaries:
noun - a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
noun - an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
A collection of various items, parts, or ingredients, especially one composed of diverse literary works.
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| a group or collection of different items a mixture. |
| A group or collection of different items a mixture. |
| A collection of various items, parts, or ingredients, especially one composed of diverse literary works. |
| A publication containing various literary works. |
| an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. |
| a collection containing a variety of sorts of things |
| a mixture of different things: |
| a book containing a collection of pieces of writing either by different writers or by one writer on different subjects: |
| Miscellany description |
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| A miscellany is a collection of various pieces of writing by different authors. Meaning a mixture, medley, or assortment, a miscellany can include pieces on many subjects and in a variety of different forms. In contrast to anthologies, whose aim is to give a selective and canonical view of literature, miscellanies were produced for the entertainment of a contemporary audience and so instead emphasise collectiveness and popularity. Laura Mandell and Rita Raley state:* This last distinction is quite often visible in the basic categorical differences between anthologies on the one hand, and all other types of collections on the other, for it is in the one that we read poems of excellence, the "best of English poetry," and it is in the other that we read poems of interest. Out of the differences between a principle of selection (the anthology) and a principle of collection (miscellanies and beauties), then, comes a difference in aesthetic value, which is precisely what is at issue in the d |
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