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I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing by A. D. Jameson
epub |eng | | Author:A. D. Jameson

seven. GEEKING OUT While introducing Howard Hawks’s classic Western Rio Bravo at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino called it “one of the great hang-out movies,” his idea being ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 8,2018 )
A Companion to Roman Art by Borg Barbara E.;
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Borg, Barbara E.;

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING The study of Roman sarcophagi has long been, primarily, the province of German scholarship, which has produced the basic corpora of the monuments. These form the ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 8,2018 )
A Companion to Josephus by Chapman Honora Howell; Rodgers Zuleika; & Zuleika Rodgers
epub |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Chapman, Honora Howell; Rodgers, Zuleika; & Zuleika Rodgers

13.3 Josephus and 1 Maccabees In recounting the history of the Hasmoneans, Josephus had before him the First Book of Maccabees. That work, composed probably in the late second century ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 7,2018 )
Critical Discourse Analysis by FAIRCLOUGH NORMAN
epub |eng | | Author:FAIRCLOUGH, NORMAN

12. Marx as a critical discourse analyst: the genesis of a critical method and its relevance to the critique of global capital Norman Fairclough and Phil Graham In this paper ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar May 7,2018 )
Queer by William S. Burroughs
epub |eng | 2012-07-19 | Author:William S. Burroughs [Burroughs, William S.]

Chapter 6 Thursday Lee went to the races, on the recommendation of Tom Weston. Weston was an amateur astrologer, and he assured Lee the signs were right. Lee lost five ...
( Category: United States May 7,2018 )
The Burning House by Anders Walker
epub |eng | 2018-05-07 | Author:Anders Walker

CHAPTER TWELVE The Cantos JAMES JACKSON KILPATRICK, balding and bespectacled, looked out the window of his North Fourth Street office in Richmond and winced. Few understood the symbolic importance of ...
( Category: Sociology May 7,2018 )
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie (Bloomsbury Sigma) by Kathryn Harkup
epub |eng | 2015-09-10 | Author:Kathryn Harkup [Harkup, Kathryn]

Three Act Tragedy Mr Babbington was peering across the room with amiable short-sighted eyes. He took a sip of his cocktail and choked a little. He was unused to cocktails, ...
( Category: Women's Studies May 6,2018 )
Tagore Omnibus, Volume 1 by Rabindranath Tagore
epub |eng | 2013-11-20 | Author:Rabindranath Tagore

His unbounded audacity had no veils, naked as the flames. It didn’t wait to be stopped; trying to do so was like denying the thunder, which the lightning laughed and ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 5,2018 )
Clarissa--Or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Samuel Richardson

Letter 207: MR LOVELACE TO JOHN BELFORD, ESQ. Thursday, May 25 Now have I a foundation to go upon in my terms. My lord, in the exuberance of his generosity, ...
( Category: Classics May 5,2018 )
Orphic Paris by Henri Cole
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Henri Cole

THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY for James Lord called him “an intimate of Picasso and Giacometti,” and it reported that he is survived by “his longtime companion and adopted son.” ...
( Category: Surrealism May 5,2018 )
Roosters I Have Known by Steve Braunias
epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Steve Braunias [Steve Braunias]

[September 2] 14 Helen Clark To Excite the Blood No one dresses like a female television newsreader, and it’s also a fact of modern life that no one in their ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 5,2018 )
Writing Deafness by Christopher Krentz
epub |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Christopher Krentz

4 A Sense of Two-ness DEAF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS AT MIDCENTURY I move—a silent exile on this earth . . . No gleam of hope this darken’d mind assures That the ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 5,2018 )
Upward Mobility and the Common Good by Robbins Bruce;
epub |eng | 2008-05-05 | Author:Robbins, Bruce;

“YOU'RE A TOWN HALL WALLAH, AREN'T YOU?”: PYGMALION AND ROOM AT THE TOP Thanks to its musical sequel My Fair Lady, Shaw’s Pygmalion is probably one of the twentieth century’s ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 5,2018 )
Bernard Shaw by A. M. Gibbs
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:A. M. Gibbs

* * * * Shaw’s choice of this musical instrument for Undershaft is an amusing recollection of his Irish childhood. A fondness for brass instruments such as the trombone ran ...
( Category: British & Irish May 5,2018 )
Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs by Martin Torgoff
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-24 | Author:Martin Torgoff [Torgoff, Martin]

Charley Parker, forgive me— Forgive me for not answering your eyes— By this time Kerouac had become exactly like a Perfect Musician himself—“a jazz poet blowing a long blues in ...
( Category: Social Sciences May 4,2018 )

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