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Celestina and the Ends of Desire by Gerli E. Michael.;
epub |eng | 2011-02-26 | Author:Gerli, E. Michael.; [Gerli, E. Michael]

¡Anda, bova, dile, no me indignes con tu tardança! LUCRECIA: Celestina, hablando con reverencia, es su nombre. ALISA: ¡Hy, hy, hy! Mala landre te mate si de risa puedo estar, ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 27,2020 )
Dead as Doornails by Anthony Cronin
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Anthony Cronin [Cronin, Anthony]

6 BRIAN O’NOLAN was a small man whose appearance somehow combined elements of the priest, the baby-faced Chicago gangster, the petty bourgeois malt drinker and the Dublin literary gent. The ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Frank Kermode

And: I therefore apprehend and do attach thee For an abuser of the world, a practicer Of arts inhibited and out of warrant. (I.ii.77–79) There is another trace of the ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
Existentialists and Mystics by Iris Murdoch
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Iris Murdoch

Essay in Yale Review, December 1959. Against Dryness The complaints which I wish to make are concerned primarily with prose, not with poetry, and primarily with novels, not with drama; ...
( Category: Victorian February 27,2020 )
The Word According to Eve by Cullen Murphy
epub |eng | | Author:Cullen Murphy

suggests that women in ancient Judaism in fact lived lives similar to their Gentile counterparts, and that a monolithic view of Jewish women’s experience based on a few sources is ...
( Category: Christian Theology February 27,2020 )
The Wicked Wit of Charles Dickens by Shelley Klein
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Shelley Klein

I Am Miserable: Husbands and Wives That Dickens’s own marriage to Catherine Hogarth was not an entirely happy one is a well-documented fact. However, they did spend twenty-two years together ...
( Category: Humor February 27,2020 )
The Art of Objects by Cottini Luca.;
epub |eng | | Author:Cottini, Luca.;

Chapter Seven * * * Toys, Clothes, Furniture, and the Aesthetic Power of Play In the spring of 1919 the Futurist painter Fortunato Depero opened an art house (Casa d’Arte) ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
Dictionary of the Undoing by Valeria Luiselli
epub |eng | | Author:Valeria Luiselli

Police We cannot live without law enforcement. Some people will simply break the law until stopped. So our societies must deputize some people to stop, detain, and arrest those who ...
( Category: Politics February 27,2020 )
A Study Guide for Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History by Gale Cengage Learning
epub |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:Gale, Cengage Learning

( Category: Movements & Periods February 27,2020 )
Perspectives on Ayn Rand's Contributions to Economic and Business Thought by Ed Younkins
epub |eng | 2012-02-26 | Author:Ed Younkins

“Blood, Whips and Guns—or Dollars” One of the most provocative sections of Francisco’s speech is the final paragraph, particularly the last three sentences: “When money ceases to be the tool ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 27,2020 )
An Introduction To Post-Colonial Theory by Childs Peter;Williams Patrick.;
epub |eng | 1997-02-26 | Author:Childs, Peter;Williams, Patrick.;

Further reading Young, Robert, ‘Discovering Orientalism’ in White Mythologies, London: Routledge, 1990. A stimulating discussion centred, as the title suggests, on Orientalism. Sprinker, Michael (ed.), Edward Said: A Critical Reader, ...
( Category: History & Theory February 27,2020 )
General Intellects by McKenzie Wark
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:McKenzie Wark [Wark, McKenzie]

The missing concept there for me is information. It is no accident that neoliberalism has its moment in the postwar period, when the infrastructure of command and control through information ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory February 27,2020 )
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
epub |eng | 2012-10-25 | Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

IX THE MARKS OF A GOOD GOVERNMENT The question “What absolutely is the best government?” is unanswerable as well as indeterminate; or rather, there are as many good answers as ...
( Category: History & Theory February 27,2020 )
The Poem by Don Paterson
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Don Paterson [Don Paterson]

Self-reflexivity Self-reference, the declaration by the text that it is text, is a mise en abyme because the paradox of the feedback loop (i.e. that the p-text allusion is an ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
9781787803756 by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2019-01-16 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

The most wonderful thing connected with the cosmopolitan merchandise displayed in the Lowther Arcade is the apparent recklessness with which the commodities are exposed to the touch of the passers-by, ...
( Category: Relationships February 27,2020 )

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