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CHAPTER 9 SLAVERY MUST BE CLEANED OUT A YEAR BEFORE LEE surrendered at Appomattox, a Texas private predicted that Confederate victory was certain because “we are fighting for our property ...

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85 If Macbeth’s story is one of publicized privacy, Raskolnikov’s story is one of scrutinized privacy. God still exists, but he is not watching Raskolnikov—at least, not until the end ...

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Other people call it humor. It’s not sort of laughing away one’s troubles. . . . Laughter itself for Black people has nothing to do with what’s funny at all. ...

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CHAPTER FIVE A Typology of Conventions We must notice that the illocutionary act is a conventional act: an act done as conforming to a convention. —J. L. Austin, How to ...

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10 Prelapsarian Eroticism Paradise Lost Milton is our most libidinous poet. And all readers are our most libidinous readers. In combination, Milton and any reader are thus a serious threat ...

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epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Kathy Peiss

Chapter 6 Book Burning—American Style Even as American libraries expanded their collections through relationships with the military, the American occupation government faced its own problem of mass acquisitions. The Allies ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Natalia Kamovnikova

EVGENII WITKOWSKY: I am convinced that interlinear trots are harmful, but not absolutely harmful. Interlinear trots make sense when they go about translating from the language that very few people ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-21 | Author:Koury, Ronald;

A Pilgrimage to Santayana IRVING SINGER When historians in the twenty-first century assess the nature of twentieth-century philosophy from their own perspective, they may have some difficulty in placing the ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Tim Flannery

Oolacunta! 2004 I’M WRITING THESE words in 2003, on my way home from London where I’ve been studying some of Australia’s most interesting mammals. It’s been a sad pilgrimage, but ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lydia Davis

* * * 28. Learn at least one foreign language in your life, either on your own (it can be enjoyable) or in a class; read regularly in that foreign ...

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epub |eng | | Author:MacLeod, Kirsten;

At the same time, portraits of writers were a dominant feature of the magazine in this early period, and would remain so. These generally appeared in conjunction with an article ...

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