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The Lyrical in Epic Time by David Der-Wei Wang
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:David Der-Wei Wang

The action and costuming of the roles in Chinese drama indicate that they are not figures of reality. Objectively speaking, they can be likened to puppets, to ghosts; subjectively, they ...
( Category: Other Media April 23,2018 )
Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World by Paul A. Cantor
epub |eng | 2017-05-18 | Author:Paul A. Cantor [Cantor, Paul A.]

Where is this viper That would depopulate the city and Be every man himself? (3.1.262–64) This drive to “be every man himself” is what motivates the Roman heroes in their ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
Sophocles: Antigone by Douglas Cairns
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-06-21 | Author:Douglas Cairns [Cairns, Douglas]

Antigone at Rome The strongest evidence for the reception of Sophocles’ version of the Antigone story is the version of Accius (born c. 170, died c. 80 BC).25 Only six ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
Morning, Noon, and Night by Arnold Weinstein
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Arnold Weinstein [Weinstein, Arnold]

Then, a page later in the text, the two brothers’ queries: June 21th 1833 Drownd herself Followed by 23 Jun 1833 Who in hell ever heard of a niger drownding ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 23,2018 )
The Political Theory of Aristophanes by Frost Bryan-Paul Mhire Jeremy J
epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Frost, Bryan-Paul,Mhire, Jeremy J.

A Divine Comedy: Contesting Divinity The drama of the Frogs is set in motion by Dionysus’ love of Euripides. Having recently read again Euripides’ Andromeda, Dionysus was struck by the ...
( Category: Poetry April 22,2018 )
Dawning Moon of the Mind : Unlocking the Pyramid Texts (9781429944267) by Morrow Susan Brind
epub |eng | | Author:Morrow, Susan Brind

6 Say the words: Osiris Unis goes to him, as nine lights, an indestructible soul. He counts the hearts in his seat of the kas. He harnesses the spirit powers ...
( Category: Poetry April 22,2018 )
Cruising The Movies by Boyd McDonald
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Boyd McDonald

By contrast, a male at another photo house wore a crew cut before they became fashionable again, which is suspect to begin with, and feels a need to show contempt ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 22,2018 )
Albert Camus: Elements of a Life by Zaretsky Robert
epub |eng | | Author:Zaretsky, Robert

° ° ° Sartre admired The Plague. In 1945, he told an audience in New York that the novel, which he had read in manuscript, embodied the new spirit of ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 22,2018 )
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh by Grant Patrick
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Grant, Patrick

The Trouble with Pangloss Van Gogh the idealist well knew his own propensity for building “castles in the air” (732/4:380; 736/4:388): indeed, his controversy with Gauguin about painting from imagination ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 21,2018 )
Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus by Lisa Jarnot
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Lisa Jarnot

Concurrent with the late Passages poems of Bending the Bow came a project of another sort, a series of translations of the Chimeras of Gerard de Nerval, which Duncan began ...
( Category: United States April 21,2018 )
Signatures of the Visible by Frederic; Jameson
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frederic; Jameson [Jameson, Frederic;]

II But it is necessary to suspend the question of history temporarily in order to turn to the peculiar and constitutive function of color in these films, particularly since our ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 21,2018 )
Dead by Midnight by Carolyn Hart
epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Carolyn Hart [Hart, Carolyn]

Chapter Nine Max used a short stroke and the ball rolled up and over a slight ridge to curl beautifully into the hole of the indoor putting green. “Way to ...
( Category: Mystery April 21,2018 )
Intensities and Lines of Flight by Calcagno Antonio Vernon Jim Lofts Steve G
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Calcagno, Antonio, Vernon, Jim, Lofts, Steve G.

Notes 1. Wilhelm Worringer, Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style, trans. Michael Bullock (New York: International Universities Press, 1953), 4. Hereafter, parenthetically cited as AE. 2. ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 21,2018 )
Art of Living by Sellars John;
epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Sellars, John;

5. The Persistence of the Technical Conception of Philosophy Despite the way in which the technical conception of philosophy may enable one to understand better the relationship between philosophy and ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 21,2018 )
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld by Stephen Briggs & Terry Pratchett
epub |eng | 2008-11-06 | Author:Stephen Briggs & Terry Pratchett [Briggs, Stephen & Pratchett, Terry]

‘What’s this?’ ‘A Klatchian Hots without anchovies,’ said Vimes, lifting the cover. ‘We got it from Ron’s Pizza Hovel round the corner.’ ‘Has someone already eaten this, Vimes?’ ‘No, sir. ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 21,2018 )

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