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Fantasy by Attebery Brian;
epub |eng | 2022-01-30 | Author:Attebery, Brian; [Attebery, Brian]

7 Gender and Fantasy Employing Fairy Tales A significant chunk of the work of fantasy has to do with its being employed as a road map for journeys of growth ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 1,2023 )
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
epub, pdf |eng | 1986-01-15 | Author:M. M. Bakhtin

Notes 1. “National unity of language” is a shorthand way of referring to the assemblage of linguistic and translinguistic practices common to a given region. It is, then, a good ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
The Woman Beyond the Attic: the V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman
epub |eng | 2022-02-02 | Author:Andrew Neiderman

chapter eight Leaving the Attic IN ILLUSTRATION OF HOW Virginia Andrews’s fame had crossed the ocean ahead of her, we have the letter from the secretary to the deputy master ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
How Literature Works by John Sutherland;
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:John Sutherland;

27 Bricolage Bricolage is an idea put into general circulation by the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in his work on myth and pensée sauvage (loosely, “the primitive mind”). The term has ...
( Category: Reference January 1,2023 )
Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 1 by P. M. Kean;
epub |eng | 1972-01-15 | Author:P. M. Kean;

4 Troilus and Criseyde The House of Fame, whenever we date it and however we understand it, forms an interlude in Chaucer’s exploration of the theme of love. In the ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
The Anatomy of Genres by John Truby
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:John Truby

Comedy Mind-Action Story View Along with Myth, Comedy may be the oldest recognizable story form. Yet in the evolution of genres as expressions of the human mind in Action, Comedy ...
( Category: 21st Century January 1,2023 )
David Jones and Rome by Jasmine Hunter Evans;
epub |eng | 2022-01-04 | Author:Jasmine Hunter Evans; [Hunter Evans, Jasmine]

Yet there is more depth to Jones’s ‘associations’ in this passage. In taking the quotation not from Homer’s Greek Iliad but from Aeneas’s vision within Virgil’s Latin Aeneid, Jones also ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective January 1,2023 )
The Hyacinth Girl by Lyndall Gordon
epub |eng | | Author:Lyndall Gordon

In 1943, the year Eliot put the Quartets together as a book, he returned to the issue of their papers, declaring his sole motive was to archive her letters ‘as ...
( Category: Poetry January 1,2023 )
Introduction to the Bible by Hayes Christine Elizabeth
epub |eng | | Author:Hayes, Christine Elizabeth.

Davidic Covenant In 2 Sam 7:8–17, the prophet Nathan transmits Yahweh’s promise of a covenant to David—a covenant that became the basis for the centuries-long belief in the eternity of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 1,2023 )
The Ink in the Grooves by Florence Dore
epub |eng | | Author:Florence Dore

SE: Yeah, it’s like [makes thumping sound]. That’s an iamb. An iamb’s not a beat, it’s a beat and the space after the beat. It’s just like in haiku. If ...
( Category: 20th Century January 1,2023 )
Samuel Beckett in Confinement: the Politics of Closed Space by James Little
epub |eng | | Author:James Little

‘From self estranged’: Learning to say ‘I’ As is the case with Beckett’s decision to write in French, his move from the predominantly third-person narratives of the prewar prose to ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Photo Poetics by Shengqing Wu;
epub |eng | 2020-10-03 | Author:Shengqing Wu;

FIGURE 5.14 Wang Dunqing, Photograph of the Spirit of Zhu Taoshan, Shanghai Manhua 8 (1936):14. Photography is proclaimed to be quintessentially “a medium of the spirit.” 100 This assertion resonates in ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
Managing Emotion in Byzantium by Margaret Mullett;Susan Ashbrook Harvey; & Susan Ashbrook Harvey
epub |eng | 2022-08-08 | Author:Margaret Mullett;Susan Ashbrook Harvey; & Susan Ashbrook Harvey [Harvey, Susan Ashbrook]

8 An Early Christian Understanding of Pride Robin Darling Young DOI: 10.4324/9780203710661-8 Historians usually date the modern investigation into the emotions from the publication of Darwin’s The Expression of the ...
( Category: Renaissance January 1,2023 )
Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts by Liam Lewis;
epub |eng | 2022-01-25 | Author:Liam Lewis;

1 Bibbesworth also composed a tençon or debate poem with the Earl of Lincoln, Henry de Lacy, during the time of the 1270 Crusade in which the former took part, ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )
The Mind of the Book by Fowler Alastair;
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Fowler, Alastair; [Fowler, Alastair]

(Poly-Olbion, Song XX, lines 104–9) Title The upper cartouche frames the title, poly-olbion. Olbion is a variant of Albion, the ancient Greek name for Britain. Poly- suggests ‘Variety’ or ‘Profusion ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 1,2023 )

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