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A Guide to Poetics Journal by Hejinian Lyn Watten Barrett
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Hejinian, Lyn, Watten, Barrett

What Is the Status of Narrative in Your Work? Oh, the boats are large, are they not? Whatever gave you that idea? From looking at myself. You are introspective? I ...
( Category: Poetry March 22,2020 )
A Companion to Poetic Genre by Martiny Erik
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-28 | Author:Martiny, Erik

Poems for the Eye and for the Ear The attempt to capture the naturalness of everyday speech, and claim it as the American idiom, incited William Carlos Williams to resist ...
( Category: Poetry March 22,2020 )
Lolita Story of a Cover Girl by John Bertram & Yuri Leving
epub |eng | | Author:John Bertram & Yuri Leving [Bertram, John & Leving, Yuri]

2. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958. [Hardcover.] Nabokov obviously wanted to draw a line between highbrow and lowbrow products, and before Lolita was issued in paperback—a medium that ...
( Category: Decorative Arts & Design March 22,2020 )
Sex, Art, and American Culture by Camille Paglia
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Camille Paglia [Paglia, Camille]

April 26. Sukiya, the Japanese word for teahouse, means “the abode of emptiness.” It uses rugged, hard, deliberately irregular wood, rubbed by hand. Irregularity of this kind is so un-Western. ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
Finite Transcendence by Burr Steven A
epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Burr, Steven A.

After several days’ exile in this foreign city, Camus finally left for ‘safer’ and more familiar territory in Italy, “a land that fits my soul, whose signs I recognize one ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 22,2020 )
Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery by Nabil Matar
epub |eng | 2008-10-24 | Author:Nabil Matar

5. “Iqleem Misr.” Courtesy of Professor E. Birnbaum (copyright holder), University of Toronto. America was the Canaan or Palestine of the Western hemisphere. This “Canaan theme,” as Alfred A. Cave ...
( Category: European March 22,2020 )
Real Presences by George Steiner
epub |eng | | Author:George Steiner

8 There are grounds for rebuttal. I have already alluded to the self-serving jargon which infects all but the (rare) best of post-structuralist and deconstructive rhetoric. One can also advert ...
( Category: Criticism March 22,2020 )
Sounding Race in Rap Songs by Kajikawa Loren
epub |eng | | Author:Kajikawa, Loren

THE “MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION” CONNECTION Describing the Grammy Award–winning single in a 2010 retrospective, music critic Josh Tyrangiel mused, “‘Let Me Ride’ feels like dusk on a wide-open L.A. boulevard, full ...
( Category: Sheet Music & Scores March 22,2020 )
Miss Julie and Other Plays (Oxford World’s Classics) by August Strindberg
epub |eng | 2004-03-14 | Author:August Strindberg

ALICE [enters, wearing an apron]. What is it? KURT. I don’t know. Look at him! ALICE [calmly]. He goes off like that sometimes.— — —I’ll play something, that’ll soon wake ...
( Category: European March 22,2020 )
Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest by Greg Carlisle
mobi |eng | 2007-11-29 | Author:Greg Carlisle [Carlisle, Greg]

PLOT AND CHARACTER: Gately, Joelle, A.F.R. THEME: Recur, Cycles, Waste, Fear/Obsess, Inf/Reg The narrator of this section asks, “Has anybody mentioned Gately’s head is square?” which either implies that there ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Continental Anti-Realism by Sebold Richard
epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Sebold, Richard

The true world, unattainable for now, but promised to the man who is wise, pious, virtuous (‘to the sinner who repents’). (Progress of the idea: it gets trickier, more subtle, ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 22,2020 )
The New Russian Book by Birgitte Beck Pristed
epub |eng | | Author:Birgitte Beck Pristed

But was it rather the Soviet citizen’s notion of the “sweet life” in the West that Prostor’s publication of Chase actually encapsulated? Perhaps the Chase stories were read not only ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 22,2020 )
Nabokov's Shakespeare by Schuman Samuel;
epub |eng | | Author:Schuman, Samuel; [Schuman, Samuel]

For comparative purposes here, again, is the passage as Kinbote quoted it some 150 pages earlier, filtered through the translations of Conmal (Shakespeare’s English into Zemblan) and Kinbote (Conmal’s Zemblan ...
( Category: Russian March 22,2020 )
Very Little . . . Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature by Simon Critchley
epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Simon Critchley

Romantic poetry is progressive, universal poetry. Its aim isn’t merely to reunite all the separate species of poetry and put poetry in touch with philosophy and rhetoric. It tries to ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 22,2020 )
Post-Postmodernism by Nealon Jeffrey
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Nealon, Jeffrey

CHAPTER 5 Deconstruction POSTDECONSTRUCTIVE? NEGRI, DERRIDA, AND THE PRESENT STATE OF THEORY Nobody needs French theory. —JEAN BAUDRILLARD, 2005 It seems that we live in discouragingly posttheoretical, or even antitheoretical, ...
( Category: Postmodernism March 22,2020 )

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