History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Giorgio Agamben [Agamben, Giorgio]

Let us pause to consider these inarticulate and yet "writable" voices, these brekekeks and koi, which are so similar to Pascoli's onomatopoeias. What happens to the confused animal voice such ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-05 | Author:Giorgio van Straten [Giorgio van Straten]

Moscow, 1852: A Divine Comedy of the Steppes IN ALL OF THE CASES that I have dealt with thus far, the disappearance of the lost books in question could hardly ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Adam Zagajewski

5 Beginning to Remember Beginning to remember! While the person we know and admire is still alive—even if he lives far off—remembering remains peaceful, lazy, and pointillist. The memory doesn’t ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Princeton Review

More AP Info Online! We have put together even more goodies for a handful of AP Exam subjects. For short quizzes, high level AP course and test information, and expert ...
( Category: Advanced Placement October 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Philbrick, Nathaniel [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

14 Unflinching Reality Within weeks of meeting Melville in August 1850, Hawthorne had procured copies of the young novelist’s two latest books, Redburn and White-Jacket. Both were based on Melville’s ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940 [Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940]

Outside the wind was loud and there was a faint flow of thunder along the Sound. All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, ...
( Category: Classics October 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Laurence Sterne [Sterne, Laurence]

CHAP. XXXI.1 THE first thirty pages, said my father, turning over the leaves,—are a little dry; and as they are not closely connected with the subject,——for the present we’ll pass ...
( Category: Classics October 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

At the Tuileries, the royal family found itself unpleasantly close to the National Assembly, which was meeting in the neighbouring riding school. It was now almost constantly in session, with ...
( Category: Europe October 3,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-08-09 | Author:James Mustich

Into Africa Barbara Kingsolver’s novels seem to expand our sense of life and our capacity to tackle it. Before she published The Poisonwood Bible in 1998, she had won wide ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Thomas Ligotti

* * * — Many people in this world are always looking to science to save them from something. But just as many, or more, prefer old and reputable belief ...
( Category: Philosophy October 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:William H. Whyte

To some management people the desire to do “free” work is a downright defect—a symptom of maladjustment that demands cure, not coddling. When a man wants to follow his own ...
( Category: Sociology October 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-07-21 | Author:Frank Gibney & Yukio Mishima [Gibney, Frank]

3 Or, to quote from Capital, p. 551: “Harrup also appointed a boy to announce the starting time by a whistle, which he often did before six o’clock in the ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-26 | Author:Jon Fosse [Fosse, Jon]

Second Act III The morning after. THE YOUNG MAN is looking out of the window and THE MOTHER is looking at him. THE MOTHER Don’t stand there and look at ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-30 | Author:Philip Pullman [Pullman, Philip]

This capacity of the narrator to move from here to there with the speed of thought, to see a whole panorama in one glance and then to fly down like ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Abe Kobo

III In response to my novel Enomoto Buyō, people commented that “Abe Kōbō has now converted to historical fiction.” Of course such comments were made from the perspective of a ...
( Category: Philosophy September 28,2018 )