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About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known by Peggy Rowe
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Peggy Rowe

POO-DINI A WOMAN APPROACHED ME AT a social gathering and asked if it was true that I was the mother of that Dirty Jobs guy. I said that I was ...
( Category: Memoirs April 24,2020 )
On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
epub |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]

LECTURE V. THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. [May 19, 1840.] Hero-Gods, Prophets, Poets, Priests are forms of Heroism that belong to the old ages, make their ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2020 )
The Abandonment of the West by Michael Kimmage
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Michael Kimmage [KIMMAGE, MICHAEL]

Ghana, Zambia, Tanganyika and Nigeria are so busy fighting their own battles against poverty, illiteracy and the subversive influence of neo-colonialism that they offer little hope to Angola, Southern Rhodesia ...
( Category: Diplomacy April 23,2020 )
The Great Detective by Zach Dundas
epub |eng | | Author:Zach Dundas

Against his grim backdrop, Conan Doyle turns The Hound of the Baskervilles into a philosophical battle of reason versus unreason. From the beginning, there’s a debate on: could the hound ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective April 22,2020 )
Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman by Dennis M. Weiss
epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Dennis M. Weiss

Then The historic design pattern known as grottesche illustrates the extent to which an organic or inorganic context for disfigurement can make the difference between perceiving such forms as horrific ...
( Category: Movements & Periods April 22,2020 )
What Is the Grass by Mark Doty
epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Mark Doty

WHILE NO ONE WOULD WANT to read a lot of that, there’s something engaging about seeing Whitman tumble over himself, his thinking snarled up in qualifications, in this lurching, going-nowhere ...
( Category: Nature April 22,2020 )
A Preface to Sartre by LaCapra Dominick;
epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:LaCapra, Dominick;

5 Autobiography and Biography: Self and Other Homo. Say “Ecce homo!” on the arrival of any person one is expecting. Idiot. Those who differ with you. Idolaters. Are cannibals too. ...
( Category: European April 21,2020 )
Dead Land by Sara Paretsky
epub |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:Sara Paretsky

31 Everyone Joins the Chase Over dinner, I told Peter about finding Simon Lensky’s body, talking some of the horror of the murder out of my system. I told him, ...
( Category: Murder April 21,2020 )
The Experience of Poetry by Derek Attridge
epub |eng | 2019-01-13 | Author:Derek Attridge

( Category: Medieval April 21,2020 )
Revolutionary Subjects: German Literatures and the Limits of Aesthetic Solidarity with Latin America by Trnka Jamie H
epub |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:Trnka, Jamie H. [Trnka, Jamie H.]

Both Wallerstein and Zea conclude that liberty-equality must ultimately be treated as a single concept, but fraternity presents a more difficult challenge.541 In overlaying the French and Russian Revolutions, Müller ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 20,2020 )
Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate
epub |eng | 2020-03-06 | Author:Jonathan Bate [Bate, Jonathan]

EXCURSION The downfall of the French school of poetry has of late been increasing in rapidity; its cold and artificial compositions have given way, like so many fantastic figures of ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic April 20,2020 )
Shakespeare's Tragedies by Stanley Wells
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Stanley Wells

And, noble signor, If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. (1.3.288–90) The malice and evil-spiritedness of Iago are firmly established in his opening ...
( Category: Renaissance April 19,2020 )
The Roman History by Cassius Dio
epub |eng | 1987-04-18 | Author:Cassius Dio

6. While these events were in progress, Augustus visited Sicily to settle affairs in that island and in other territories, and travelled as far as Syria. While he was still ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
Metamorphosis by Ovid
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Ovid

Book 9 Hercules is the key figure in the next group of stories. Acheloüs and Hercules (1–97) is a lively account of how the river-god fought with the hero for ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
epub |eng | 2003-04-18 | Author:Aristophanes

[Flute music.] CHORUS: Listen, you men down there in the half–light! Shadowy, impalpable, dreamlike phantoms: feeble, wingless, ephemeral creatures of clay, dragging out your painful lives till you wither like ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )

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