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Grotesque (The New Critical Idiom) by Justin Edwards & Rune Graulund
azw3 |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Justin Edwards & Rune Graulund [Edwards, Justin]

FREAKS AND MISFITS Freaks and misfits populate the fiction of the American author Flannery O'Connor. One of the most consistent practitioners of twentieth-century grotesque fiction, her short story ‘A Good ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 23,2018 )
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges
azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-07-21 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges [Borges, Jorge Luis]

CLASS 17 THE VICTORIAN ERA. THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS. THE NOVELS OF CHARLES DICKENS. WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, BY DICKENS. NOVEMBER 25, 1966 When we ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 23,2018 )
Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-05-05 | Author:Marjorie Perloff

Figure 20. Elias Canetti’s birthplace, Ruse, Bulgaria, Slavianska Street 12 (built 1902). Wikimedia Commons. Photograph: Trygve W. Nodeland (September 2009). Prior to World War II, Bulgaria was home to forty-eight ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 21,2018 )
Comedy by Henri Bergson
epub |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:Henri Bergson

( Category: Humor November 20,2018 )
The Poetry of Punk by Gerfried Ambrosch
epub |eng | | Author:Gerfried Ambrosch

—Good Riddance, “Waste,” 1998182 It has been observed that “Vegetarianism and animal rights have become staples of the concerned Punk’s political philosophy.”183 For ethical reasons, many punks strongly object to ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 19,2018 )
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism by Regina Mara Schwartz
epub |eng | 2011-07-28 | Author:Regina Mara Schwartz

The bride of Christ pleases God most when she gives to most; in this sense, “betrayal” is completely transvalued to become liberality. At her best, the bride of Christ is ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 19,2018 )
James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity by Aaron Ngozi Oforlea
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-20 | Author:Aaron Ngozi Oforlea [Oforlea, Aaron Ngozi]

• The griot symbolizes how all human ancestry goes back to some place, and some time where there was no writing. Then the memories and the mouths of ancient elders ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 19,2018 )
The Gulag Archipelago (Vintage Classics) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-11-02 | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr]

Chapter 8 Women in Camp And how could one not think of them, even back during interrogation? One day, one of the Butyrki jailers was fussing with a lock, and ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 19,2018 )
Literary Landscapes by John Sutherland
epub |eng | 2018-11-12 | Author:John Sutherland

LOS ANGELES, USA RAYMOND CHANDLER THE LONG GOODBYE (1953) In postwar Los Angeles, private detective Phillip Marlowe’s search for justice sets him against crooked cops, brutal racketeers, and the entire ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 18,2018 )
Mastering Fear by Rikke Schubart
epub |eng | 2018-04-30 | Author:Rikke Schubart

The Magic Circle and the Moral Circle Let us return to the question my German colleague asked, why we should watch extremely disgusting horror. In Chapter 1, I mention sociologist ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 18,2018 )
Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry by John Steen
epub |eng | | Author:John Steen

6 Aaron Kunin’s Line of Shame As the arena of this study’s concern moves into the twenty-first century with readings of recent books by Aaron Kunin and Claudia Rankine, it ...
( Category: Poetry November 18,2018 )
On Whitman by Williams C. K
epub |eng | 2010-11-17 | Author:Williams, C. K. [Williams, C. K.]

† I can’t resist comparing a well-known passage from “Four Quartets,” a quotation from Julian of Norwich, one of Eliot’s esoteric Christian sources, to a passage of Whitman’s. Eliot, in ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 18,2018 )
Making Sense of the Bible by Adam Hamilton
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-11-16 | Author:Adam Hamilton

( Category: Bible Study & Reference November 17,2018 )
Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature by Corey McCall Nathan Ross & Nathan Ross
epub |eng | | Author:Corey McCall,Nathan Ross & Nathan Ross

Adorno on Don Quixote and Sancho Panza In a lecture dated 29 January 1965 (the eighteenth and final lecture Adorno gave on the topic of Metaphysics: Concepts and Problems), Adorno ...
( Category: Philosophy November 16,2018 )
In Praise of Disobedience by Oscar Wilde
epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Wilde

Part II. With some remarks on the importance of discussing everything A DIALOGUE Persons: The same. Scene: The same. ERNEST: The ortolans were delightful, and the Chambertin perfect, and now ...
( Category: British & Irish November 15,2018 )

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