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Poetics by Aristotle
epub, pdf |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Aristotle [Aristotle]

13. Further reading This introduction began by mentioning some of the problems which the Poetics poses to its interpreters; it scarcely needs to be said, therefore, that there are many ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 30,2018 )
The Unpunished Vice by Edmund White
epub |eng | | Author:Edmund White

Under Giono’s Hill is Frederic Tuten’s novel The Green Hour, a heterosexual love story set in Paris. Once I received from the New York Times Book Review a Tuten novel ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 26,2018 )
Dead Girls by Alice Bolin
epub |eng | 2018-06-26 | Author:Alice Bolin

I was wandering Hollywood Forever again when I discovered the corner of the park dedicated to the Otis-Chandler family, the legendary owners of the Los Angeles Times. Harrison Gray Otis, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 26,2018 )
My Life by Anton Chekhov
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

X Two days later she sent me to Dubetchnya and I was unutterably delighted to go. As I walked towards the station and afterwards, as I was sitting in the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National June 26,2018 )
Marxism and Form by Jameson Fredric;
epub |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:Jameson, Fredric;

CHAPTER FIVE TOWARDS DIALECTICAL CRITICISM A PHENOMENOLOGICAL description of dialectical criticism? The contradiction is not so great as it might at first glance appear. The peculiar difficulty of dialectical writing ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 24,2018 )
Hell and Back by Tim Parks
epub |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Tim Parks [Parks, Tim]

The local intellectual Roberto Bazlen was more sceptical, writing: A melting pot is a utensil into which are put the most disparate elements, which are then melted; what is produced ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 23,2018 )
Sharp by Michelle Dean
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-06-23 | Author:Michelle Dean [Dean, Michelle]

The palpable frustration here was the result of experience, not political conviction per se. Kael was not, like Sontag, a prodigy immediately recognized as such by everyone who read her. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 23,2018 )
Phèdre by Jean Racine
epub |eng | 2018-06-23 | Author:Jean Racine [Jean]

( Category: Dramas & Plays June 23,2018 )
Letters to my Comrades by Jordan Zweledinga Pallo;
epub |eng | 2017-01-01 | Author:Jordan, Zweledinga Pallo;

THIRTEEN A response to a letter by Stephen Mulholland, managing editor of Times Media Limited, which combines humour and a stringent critique of Mulholland’s claims. Letter to the Editor Sunday ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 23,2018 )
In a Narrow Grave by Larry McMurtry
epub |eng | 2018-06-23 | Author:Larry McMurtry

WHEN I CLEARED CUSTOMS, a simple process on that border, it was 1:30 P.M. and eighty-nine degrees Fahrenheit in the shade of the customs shed. All Texas lay before me—literally. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 23,2018 )
A Certain Plume by Henri Michaux
epub |eng | 2018-04-06 | Author:Henri Michaux

SCENE VI C. (looking into the distance). — All these people that I have changed into plains! Look at the sheer reach of them. All these once were guards. That ...
( Category: World Literature June 22,2018 )
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Peter Ackroyd
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter]

Learn of Tristram’s victory over Arthur The next morning Tristram took leave of his host, and rode to the Castle of the Hard Rock. When he reached it, he saw ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 22,2018 )
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Isaac Babel [Isaac Babel]

Down below, the voice of the division’s military commissar blares on. He is passionately trying to convince the puzzled tradesmen and plundered Jews: “You are the power. Everything here is ...
( Category: Classics June 22,2018 )
Why to Kill a Mockingbird Matters by Tom Santopietro
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Santopietro

12 IS TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD RACIST? To Kill a Mockingbird’s publication made invisible the very people it claimed to care about. —Colin Dayan of Al Jazeera America at the ...
( Category: Sociology June 20,2018 )
28 Artists & 2 Saints by Joan Acocella
epub |eng | 2008-02-12 | Author:Joan Acocella

SUCH was the situation in which James Wolfensohn saw an opening for the Kennedy Center. Farrell's first Balanchine season at the center, in 1995, had some rough spots, but even ...
( Category: Creativity June 20,2018 )

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