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Toward a Non-humanist Humanism by Spanos William V
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Spanos, William V. [Spanos, William V.]

6 It would be possible to extend this genealogy of bare life to include, in an indissolubly related way, such prominent contemporary post-poststructuralist theorists as Judith Butler, Alain Badiou, Slavoj ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 19,2020 )
City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut by Robyn Creswell
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Robyn Creswell [Creswell, Robyn]

Heretical Origins These questions can helpfully illuminate what is al-Hajj’s most memorable and puzzling qasidat al-nathr, “The Bubble of Origin, or the Heretical Poem” (see the English translation at the ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 19,2020 )
Laying Out the Bones by English Bridget;
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:English, Bridget;

Setting himself against religious and novelistic rules of dying, Malone seeks to narrate his dying process and to control the moment of his death. Yet as he soon realizes death ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 19,2020 )
Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Terry Eagleton [Eagleton, Terry]

Chapter 4 EXCHANGE AND EXCESS THE TRUE MARTYR is the one who seeks no return, and there are those who would see this unilateral venturing of the self as the ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation January 19,2020 )
Exotic Nations by Renata R. Mautner Wasserman
epub |eng | 2018-02-07 | Author:Renata R. Mautner Wasserman

* * * 1 Edward Said, for instance, is very annoyed by Chateaubriand’s account of the “Orient” but acknowledges his importance in creating an image of the Near East for ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 19,2020 )
Love As Human Freedom by Paul A. Kottman
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Paul A. Kottman [Kottman, Paul A.]

Lovemaking To make love, we can now say, is to experience our inability to ‘live out’—to carry out sexually—the social authority of sexual reproduction and of sexual domination. To make ...
( Category: Social Philosophy January 19,2020 )
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable by Eviatar Zerubavel
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Eviatar Zerubavel [Zerubavel, Eviatar]

Artistic Foregrounding Activists and academics, however, are not the only ones who try to subvert prevailing semiotic asymmetries by purposefully foregrounding the conventionally unmarked. So, indeed, do artists.100 After all, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 19,2020 )
Dante's Philosophical Life by Stern Paul;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Stern, Paul; [Stern, Paul;]

Dante’s Central Dream With the time for prophetic dreams approaching, the moon possessed an unusual brightness as it ran “along those paths which the sun inflames when the Roman sees ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 19,2020 )
Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century by Holub Robert C.;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Holub, Robert C.; [Holub, Robert C.;]

The Wagners were disconcerted by Nietzsche’s remarks, fearing that he was ruining his career. At first indirectly, then finally in blunt language, they advised their young acolyte to refrain from ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
The Year of Our Lord 1943 by Jacobs Alan;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Jacobs, Alan;

What lies at the heart of this “affinity”? “Both seek knowledge for the sake of power (in Bacon’s words, as ‘a spouse for fruit,’ not a ‘curtesan for pleasure’), both ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
Close Reading Without Readings by Booth Stephen
epub |eng | 2015-11-25 | Author:Booth, Stephen [Booth, Stephen]

10 Prelapsarian Eroticism Paradise Lost Milton is our most libidinous poet. And all readers are our most libidinous readers. In combination, Milton and any reader are thus a serious threat ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
Metamorphoses by Ovid; Melville A. D.; Kenney E. J
epub |eng | 1998-01-15 | Author:Ovid; Melville, A. D.; Kenney, E. J. [Ovid; Melville, A. D.; Kenney, E. J.]

VENUS AND ADONIS Time glides in secret and his wings deceive; Nothing is swifter than the years. That son, Child of his sister and his grandfather, So lately bark-enswathed, so ...
( Category: Medieval January 19,2020 )
With the Witnesses by Dale Tracy
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Dale Tracy [Tracy, Dale]

It is merely the broadness of the uncertain shape that indicates the buffalo here. That the shape of this “someone” or “something” is “uncertain” and dragging into a “jagged” and ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 19,2020 )
In the Alley of the Friend by Meskoob Shahrokh; Ghanoonparvar M. R.;
epub |eng | 2019-03-27 | Author:Meskoob, Shahrokh; Ghanoonparvar, M. R.;

i. “With woad, the world drew a crescent on the eyebrow of the feast / The crescent of the feast should be seen on the eyebrow of the beloved.” [From ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 19,2020 )
Mallarme and the Politics of Literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière by Robert Boncardo
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Robert Boncardo [Boncardo, Robert]

( Category: European January 19,2020 )

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