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A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities by J. C. McKeown
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:J. C. McKeown [McKeown, J. C.]

The rise of Christianity did very little to curb slavery. Even St. Augustine, in the 5th century, thought it acceptable for slaves to be obtained by kidnapping, provided the kidnapping ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 19,2020 )
Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature by Nathaniel Mills
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Nathaniel Mills

The Practice of Politics: Decatur and the Lumpen-Folk Figure Ellison’s theory of revolutionary political action revises two concepts and figures: the lumpenproletariat and the folk. His memory of black Oklahoma ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Women and Romance by Laurie Langbauer
epub |eng | 2017-12-27 | Author:Laurie Langbauer

The erring woman, alone in her carriage, emphasizes the inherently sexual nature that Dickens’s work accords to woman’s independent motion, but the distinctive suggestion of this tableau is this woman’s ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 19,2020 )
Virgil's Double Cross by Quint David
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Quint, David [Quint, David]

1. On the larger issue of poetic fame and its various paradoxes, see Hardie, 2012. 2. Romulus, but Aeneas perhaps not so much. The deification in store for Aeneas announced ...
( Category: Poetry January 19,2020 )
The Cruft of Fiction by Letzler David;
epub |eng | 2017-04-13 | Author:Letzler, David; [Letzler, David]

As with most speech throughout the scene, the dialogue communicates nothing to anyone: Feasley and the Argentine simply repeat phrases they have thrown at each other for the past forty ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 19,2020 )
Darwin's Bards: British and American Poetry in the Age of Evolution by John Holmes
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Holmes [Holmes, John]

As Cecil D. Eby (1987, 42–43) has observed, these lines recall the conclusion of The War of the Worlds. Once the Martians have perished and the exiled masses have returned, ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 19,2020 )
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature by John Whittier Treat
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:John Whittier Treat [Treat, John Whittier]

On 1 January 1946, Hirohito publicly renounced his divinity in a statement that said in part, “I am one of the people like you, with the same interests as you, ...
( Category: Asian January 19,2020 )
Jane Austen: A Brief Life by Fiona Stafford
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Fiona Stafford [Stafford, Fiona]

MANSFIELD PARK AND EMMA 1813–15 The intensity of Jane Austen’s preoccupation with her writing cannot be overstated. Although her nephew’s recollections conjure up a picture of the modest aunt quickly ...
( Category: Women Authors January 19,2020 )
The Mary Daly Reader by Mary Daly & Linda Barufaldi & Mary Daly
epub |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Mary Daly & Linda Barufaldi & Mary Daly

Traveling Companions Readers of Gyn/Ecology will recall that its Journey was/is a work of Hag-ography, a whirl through the time/space of Hag-ocracy, the Otherworld (Background) inhabited by Hags, Crones, Harpies, ...
( Category: Feminist January 19,2020 )
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll by Casey Rae
epub, pdf |eng | 1959-01-15 | Author:Casey Rae [Rae, Casey]

Bunkers, Punkers, and Junkies Since music is registered with the whole body it can serve as a means of communication between one organism and another. . . . Agent attends ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Quelling the Demons' Revolt: A Novel From Ming China by Guanzhong Luo
epub |eng | 2017-09-05 | Author:Guanzhong Luo

11 PELLET PRIEST SPIRITS AWAY MARSHAL WANG’S MONEY; SEVEN SAINTS DU CUTS OFF HIS SON’S HEAD WITH MAGIC. POEM: Varied is the magic of the Dark Goddess; Study it—you’ll have ...
( Category: Chinese January 19,2020 )
Maurice Blanchot by Bident Christophe;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Bident, Christophe;

CHAPTER 51 Characters in Thought How Is Friendship Possible? (1958–1971) After the friendships of the 1930s and the exceptional encounters with Emmanuel Levinas and Georges Bataille, Blanchot’s life progressed into ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

The power and uncertainty of these [vampire] stories—no one knew exactly what Europeans did with African blood, but people were convinced that they took it—makes them an especially rich historical ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories by Arthur Machen & Aaron Worth
epub |eng | 2017-11-22 | Author:Arthur Machen & Aaron Worth

and his face flushed with fortune and the lust of the hunter. He turned at once to the first leaf of the pocket-book, and proceeded to read with rapt interest ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 19,2020 )
Oxford World’s Classics by Émile Zola & Valerie Pearson Minogue
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Émile Zola & Valerie Pearson Minogue

( Category: History & Criticism January 19,2020 )

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