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The B Text of the Old English Bede by Raymond J.S. Grant;
pdf | | 2022-06-18 | Author:Raymond J.S. Grant;

( Category: Medieval January 1,2023 )
Questions of Poetics by Barrett Watten
epub |eng | 2016-07-23 | Author:Barrett Watten [Watten, Barrett]

Conceptual Writing The emergence of conceptual writing, and its twin movement Flarf, over the last decade has been cause for celebration within avant-garde poetics.26 For one thing, questions of the ...
( Category: Poetry January 1,2023 )
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
epub |eng | 2022-04-12 | Author:Margo Jefferson [Jefferson, Margo]

* * * — The pity I would teach my students must be clinical and unsparing. Not like Desdemona’s pity for Othello, born of sympathy and erotic fascination. No, my ...
( Category: Feminist January 1,2023 )
Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and His World by Subha Mukherji;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Subha Mukherji;

*** Emilia’s first appearance in the play is in a scene that “bristles” unyieldingly. This is the opening scene of the second act in Cyprus—a long scene of desultory conversation ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Leibniz on Binary by Lloyd Strickland
epub |eng | | Author:Lloyd Strickland

So the last digit of the ternary number is a, that is to say the same as the last digit of the natural number, namely 01, or indeed 010101 etc. ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
The Comic Tales of Chaucer by T. W. Craik;
epub |eng | 1964-01-15 | Author:T. W. Craik;

and the theme has become unbearable to everyone, Knight, Host, pilgrims and readers alike: Youre tale anoyeth al this compaignye. The courteous Knight begs for comedy, comedy in its widest ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
The Aesthetic Cold War by Peter J. Kalliney
epub |eng | 2022-07-05 | Author:Peter J. Kalliney

Space Fiction Lessing’s interest in what she called space fiction, or what might be called speculative fiction nowadays, has been difficult for literary historians to satisfactorily explain. For many fans ...
( Category: Politics January 1,2023 )
Theodor SEUSS Geisel by Donald E. Pease;
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Donald E. Pease;

DR. SEUSS’S REUNION In the early 1950s Geisel felt that he needed to make amends for the anti-Japanese vitriol in his PM cartoons and in the film Know Your Enemy—Japan, ...
( Category: Children's Literature January 1,2023 )
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien by Nick Groom
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Groom

How Many Rings? While the Tolkien industry did not go exactly into hibernation after the BBC radio dramatization – there was a Russian TV film of The Hobbit in 1985, ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology January 1,2023 )
Norito by Donald L. Philippi
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Donald L. Philippi

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN WORKS CONSULTED ‘Ancient Japanese Rituals’ (The Satow-Florenz translations) Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan I. GRAIN-PETITIONING FESTIVAL (Tosi-gohi no maturi) Hear me, all of you assembled ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 by Misty Krueger;
epub |eng | | Author:Misty Krueger;

THE POWER OF SENSIBILITY TO REFORM MEN After Emma leaves England in pursuit of Henry, it is increasingly Robert Raymond who reports, journal-style, to Charles Corbett what Emma says and ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Belief and Cult by Jacob L. Mackey;
epub |eng | 2022-03-28 | Author:Jacob L. Mackey;

And horizontal transmission is exemplified by, for example, Lucretius’s vates, whose terrifying utterances lead their contemporaries astray in their thinking about the gods.93 Both of these modes of transmission are ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Here Comes Everybody by Anthony Burgess
epub |eng | 2019-07-18 | Author:Anthony Burgess

… Cuchulin, Conn of hundred battles, Niall of nine hostages, Brian of Kincora, the Ardri Malachi, Art MacMurragh, Shane O’Neill, Father John Murphy, Owen Roe … Henry Joy McCracken, Goliath, ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Starting from Scratch by Andrea Marcolongo
epub |eng | 2022-02-25 | Author:Andrea Marcolongo

* * * Virgil’s genius was that he knew right away that the question to ask wasn’t “Where to start?” but “Where to start over?” And to that question the ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology January 1,2023 )
James Purdy by Michael Snyder
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Michael Snyder

14 Elijah Thrush In the spring of 1971, Purdy conjured I Am Elijah Thrush, his allegorical fantasy originally inspired by Paul Swan. This surreal short novel explores race, power, identity, ...
( Category: United States January 1,2023 )

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