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The Dehumanization of Art: And Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature by José Ortega y Gasset
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:José Ortega y Gasset

DECLINE AND PERFECTION The conditions so far mentioned merely define the level at which the novel begins; they mark the waterline, as it were, of its continent. In the following ...
( Category: European March 13,2020 )
Silence is a Scary Sound by Clint Edwards
epub |eng | 2019-09-28 | Author:Clint Edwards

I should probably admit that the second leg of our trip wasn’t quite as bad as the first. Tristan was all out of poop and not feeling well, so he ...
( Category: United States March 13,2020 )
Death at the Inn by R. Austin Freeman
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:R. Austin Freeman [Freeman, R. Austin]

* * * X. — MR. WEECH DISAPPROVES AS we came out of the entry into the courtyard, we became aware of our old acquaintance, Mr. Weech, the porter of ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 13,2020 )
The Practice of Misuse by Malewitz Raymond
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Malewitz, Raymond [Malewitz, Raymond]

5 Ritual, Play, and Neoliberal Rugged Consumerism Giorgio Agamben dedicates a chapter of his book Infancy and History (1978) to the relationship between ritual and play. Following Lévi-Strauss, he initially ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales March 13,2020 )
The Art of Return by James Meyer
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:James Meyer

Museums, like asylums and jails, have wards and cells—in other words, neutral rooms called “galleries.” A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 13,2020 )
The Bible as it was by Kugel James L
epub |eng | 1997-03-12 | Author:Kugel, James L

THE RED SEA ♦ 345 founded (wayyahom): This word means a plague, as it says "And He will throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed" [Deut. 7'2.3] • ...
( Category: Old Testament March 13,2020 )
Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930 by Jonathan Taylor
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Taylor

( Category: History & Criticism March 13,2020 )
The Expositions On The Psalms by St. Augustine of Hippo
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:St. Augustine of Hippo [Hippo, St. Augustine of]

20. “Because my heart was delighted” (ver. 21). He is saying with what things he is tempted: “because my heart was delighted,” he saith, “my reins also were changed.” When ...
( Category: Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) March 13,2020 )
The Many Lives of Catwoman by Tim Hanley
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Tim Hanley

The change went over poorly with Catwoman readers. Despite creative shifts elsewhere in the industry, Balent had developed a significant fan base, and sales dropped noticeably when he left the ...
( Category: Performing Arts March 13,2020 )
Northrop Frye on Myth by Russell Ford
epub |eng | | Author:Russell, Ford.

First Stage According to Frye, the first stage in Jung’s individuation process is that “the ego must come to terms with the shadow and recognize its essential continuity with it” ...
( Category: Ancient & Controversial Knowledge March 13,2020 )
Ridiculous Critics by Smallwood Philip; Wild Min; & Min Wild
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Smallwood, Philip; Wild, Min; & Min Wild [Smallwood, Philip & Wild, Min]

Notes 1. For a modern printing see The Adventures, ed. Malcolm Kelsall (London: Oxford University Press, 1969), 82–91. 2. The third is not specified—presumably, the good and true ones. 1749: ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 13,2020 )
Alliterative Revivals by Chism Christine;
epub |eng | | Author:Chism, Christine;

Moses’ victory over Pharoah has been claimed by the Christians and inverted. The next day, the Romans plunder the bodies and glean enormous riches. Then they pile the bodies into ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 13,2020 )
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987 - 2007 by Nick Land
epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Nick Land [Land, Nick]

Those of us who have contributed to the new science of cybernetics stand in a moral position which is, to say the least, not very comfortable. We have contributed to ...
( Category: Ideologies & Doctrines March 13,2020 )
Manuscripts Don't Burn by J. A E Curtis
epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:J. A E Curtis [CURTIS, J. A. E.]

6 1936–1940 Yelena Sergeyevna began her diary entry for 9 March 1936, when Bulgakov’s play Molière was taken off, with a quotation from the play: ‘Here I will enter a ...
( Category: Russian March 13,2020 )
Longfellow in Love by Cifelli Edward M
epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Cifelli, Edward M.

She took a deep breath, suddenly realized how negative her letter had been, and shifted her ground. She thanked God that since the wedding her “feelings have attained a less ...
( Category: Poetry March 13,2020 )

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