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Walter Benjamin's Archive by Walter Benjamin
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Benjamin

[Ms. 1282 verso] “Drink water by the light of the moons imagine, it would be champagnackwine” (old, still recited) He has some tinfoil in his hand, on one side it ...
( Category: Philosophy July 22,2018 )
The Lonely Voice by Frank O'Connor
epub |eng | 2011-06-05 | Author:Frank O'Connor [O’Connor, Frank]

That sense of the group makes it almost impossible for Kipling or his readers to believe in individual loneliness, and when it does appear it is always in some monstrous ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides July 22,2018 )
Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis by Rachel Eisendrath
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Rachel Eisendrath

CHAPTER SIX Coda: Make Me Not Object After Virgil’s refugees from the Trojan War are shipwrecked on the shores of Carthage, they set out to explore the territory. In a ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 21,2018 )
Word and Silence: Hans Urs Von Balthasar and the Spiritual Encounter Between East and West by Raymond Gawronski
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Raymond Gawronski [Gawronski, Raymond]

IV Hochzeitlichkeit: The Word Weds Silence Introduction It is a curious thing that in our sex-obsessed culture, the differentiation of the sexes in expected social roles, occupations, clothing, appearance should ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 21,2018 )
The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
epub |eng | 1995-07-17 | Author:Raymond Williams [Raymond Williams]

This striking paragraph from The Mill on the Floss is at once the problem and the response. The emphasis of want is undoubtedly central in George Eliot, and she sees ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 20,2018 )
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams
epub, pdf |eng | 1975-12-31 | Author:Raymond Williams [Williams, Raymond]

L LABOUR Among the two earliest examples of the use of labour in English are ‘bigin a laboure … and make a toure’ and ‘quit o labur, and o soru’ ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 20,2018 )
AP® English Language & Composition Crash Course by Dawn Hogue
epub |eng | 2018-07-19 | Author:Dawn Hogue

Create your own list of universal truths that you believe are central to our universal social contract. Why not simply be a muckraker, or a whistle-blower? It is sometimes politically ...
( Category: Advanced Placement July 20,2018 )
Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London by Hamid Mohsin
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Hamid, Mohsin [Hamid, Mohsin]

POLITICS 8 The Usual Ally Divided We Fall After Sixty Years, Will Pakistan Be Reborn? The Usual Ally I REMEMBER, as a boy in Lahore, the moment I learned Pakistan ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence July 20,2018 )
Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide by Paul Cobley & Litza Jansz
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Paul Cobley & Litza Jansz [Cobley, Paul & Jansz, Litza]

The period between the death of Peirce and the preparation of his Collected Papers in 1931, however, is often felt to be an interregnum in American semiotics. The most influential ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar July 19,2018 )
Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta (Rene Guenon Works) by Rene Guenon
epub |eng | 2004-06-24 | Author:Rene Guenon [Guenon, Rene]

13 THE DREAM STATE OR CONDITION OF TAIJASA THE second condition is Taijasa [the ‘Luminous’, a word derived from Tejas, the igneous element], whose seat is in the dream state ...
( Category: Philosophy July 19,2018 )
Introducing Shakespeare by Nick Groom
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Groom

On the other hand, it was Eliot who said of Hamlet that it was “most certainly an artistic failure”, and who heralded his form of Modernism in “The Love Song ...
( Category: Graphic Novels July 19,2018 )
Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody
epub |eng | 2015-06-17 | Author:Philip Thody [Thody, Philip]

The play was widely interpreted as an attack on Communism! But what else does the plot show? The party line is, at one and the same time, sufficiently sacred to ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 19,2018 )
Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work by Philip Roth
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philip Roth

Isaac Bashevis Singer [1976] Some months after I first read Bruno Schulz and decided to include him in the Penguin series “Writers from the Other Europe,” I learned that when ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence July 19,2018 )
Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker
epub |eng | | Author:Eugene Thacker

THE PATRON SAINTS OF PESSIMISM The patron saints of pessimism watch over our suffering. Laconic and sullen, they never seem to do a good job at protecting, interceding, or advocating ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 18,2018 )
The Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler & Owen Hill & Pamela Jackson & Anthony Rizzuto
epub |eng | 2018-07-16 | Author:Raymond Chandler & Owen Hill & Pamela Jackson & Anthony Rizzuto

Director Howard Hawks’s personal version confirms receipt of Chandler’s telegram stating that he didn’t know. So Hawks had his scriptwriters add a piece of dialogue in which a detective says, ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 18,2018 )

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