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The Logic of Social Practices by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

2.4 Amartya Sens Logic of Preferences and His Notion of “Social Choice Function” Formally, Sen’s contribution to the discussion consists in a rigorous clarification of what “preferences/evaluations among alternatives” (e.g., ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2020 )
Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe by L'Estrange Elizabeth; More Alison;
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:L'Estrange, Elizabeth; More, Alison;

Hypsicratea was the wife of Mithridates the Great, who filled with a mighty heart, upon seeing her husband subjugated and banished by Pompey in this fashion, went off […] to ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2020 )
The Word on the Streets by Hefner Brooks E.;
epub |eng | | Author:Hefner, Brooks E.;

The “American language” of Hammett’s fiction, Chandler writes (channeling Mencken), “only looks like speech,” but is in fact a language that can communicate more than one realizes. In much the ...
( Category: United States March 26,2020 )
East-West Exchange and Late Modernism by Qian Zhaoming;
epub |eng | | Author:Qian, Zhaoming;

“The earthly paradise over Lijiang is real,” Paul Fang confirmed in a follow-up interview in September 2007. Starting from 1972, with the normalization of the United States-China relations, he traveled ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2020 )
Stages of Dismemberment by Margaret E. Owens
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret E. Owens

The doubled impersonation of ethnicities that we find in the military pageant in Travels warrants identification as a case of "racial cross-dressing," a phenomenon which Robert L. A. Clark and ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2020 )
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Bishop

October 24, 1959 … “Helena Morley” is going to appear in Japanese. They are using both Portuguese and English texts, so I’ll get about $100 advance for that. Did I ...
( Category: Poetry March 26,2020 )
Patience and Fortitude by Scott Sherman
epub |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:Scott Sherman [Sherman, Scott]

Our division has been dissolved. Our reading rooms have been closed. Our librarians have been reassigned … In theory, we continue as collections, the Asian and the Baltic, but I’m ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration March 26,2020 )
Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in their Own Words by Tony Leuzzi
epub | | | Author:Tony Leuzzi

I loved the poem “Akhmatova and I: Boleros.” What prompted this poem? It seems like there’s a great story behind it. I have always been drawn to her. And I ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2020 )
Motion(less) Pictures by Justin Remes
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Justin Remes

We categorize So Is This as a film because we know the tradition in which Snow is working. It fits into an ongoing conversation about the nature of cinema. If ...
( Category: Film & Video Art March 26,2020 )
Looking at Lysistrata by Stuttard David;
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Stuttard, David;

7 On Misunderstanding the Lysistrata, Productively Martin Revermann (The women, in a circle, place their right hands together.) Lampito Keep it zipped till they flip! Women Keep it zipped till ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 26,2020 )
Dreaming of Cinema by Adam Lowenstein
epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Adam Lowenstein

LOS OLVIDADOS Luis Buñuel, cinema’s foremost surrealist, started out as an entomologist. Or at least this was his initial ambition when he left his parents’ home in Zaragoza, Spain, to ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2020 )
Crimes of the Future by Rabate Jean-Michel;
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Rabate, Jean-Michel;

The primacy of architectural style among the things that characterize an epoch is a very curious phenomenon. But, in general, so is the uniquely privileged position that plastic art has ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2020 )
aka Marcel Duchamp by Anne Collins Goodyear
epub |eng | 2014-12-29 | Author:Anne Collins Goodyear [Goodyear, Anne Collins]

Acknowledgments I thank the editors for the opportunity to develop this topic for the Smithsonian Duchamp symposium, as well as for their numerous suggestions in revising and expanding the talk. ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2020 )
Giacomo Leopardi’s Search For A Common Life Through Poetry by Rosengarten Frank
epub |eng | | Author:Rosengarten, Frank

NOTES 1. Harvey, ed., 406–7. 2. Roberta Smith, “Playing the Renegade with Eroticism or Rage,” New York Times Weekend Arts, November 12, 2010, C25. 3. Luti, 36. 4. On October ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2020 )
The Liberation of the Camps by Dan Stone
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Dan Stone

Rebuilding Lives Abraham Levent, who was taken to Feldafing after being liberated near Dachau, recalled: ‘And after a while you start – even right after the liberation – people start ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2020 )

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