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Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-04-19 | Author:Jonathan Culler

to take as a moral goal not the decipherment of a work’s meaning but the reconstruction of the rules and constraints of that meaning’s elaboration. . . . The critic ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 19,2018 )
Pushkin's Children by Alma Guillermoprieto
epub |eng | | Author:Alma Guillermoprieto [Tolstaya, Tatyan]

Joyce Toomre, who translated and published this insane historical monument, has accomplished an enormous task fully on a par with the original author’s slave labor. Her extensive preface and her ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 19,2018 )
Signing the Body Poetic by Bauman Dirksen
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Bauman, Dirksen

REFERENCES Barthes, Roland. Empire of Signs. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. Bauman, H-Dirksen L. 1997. “Toward a Poetics of Vision, Space, and the Body: Sign Language ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 19,2018 )
Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant by Kevin Mclaughlin
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-19 | Author:Kevin Mclaughlin [McLaughlin, Kevin]

Epilogue Making Room for Reason The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room (Platz schaffen); only one activity: clearing away (räumen). Walter Benjamin A century and a half after ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 19,2018 )
Femme Fatale: Cinema's Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies by James Ursini & Dominique Mainon
mobi |eng | 2009-10-01 | Author:James Ursini & Dominique Mainon [Ursini, James]

Even smiling, Barbara Steele looks sinister, in Federico Fellini’s 8? Muriel (Barbara Steele), restrained with her lover David (Rik Battaglia), berates her captor, husband Dr. Arrowsmith (Paul Muller), in Lovers ...
( Category: Movies April 19,2018 )
Strange Vernaculars by Sorensen Janet
epub |eng | 2017-04-19 | Author:Sorensen, Janet

Provincial Language and Political Offense Collier, however, particularly with his opening conversation between Tim Bobbin and his book, makes clear that this representation is conscious of the stakes involved in ...
( Category: British & Irish April 19,2018 )
Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture by E. P. Thompson
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:E. P. Thompson [Thompson, E. P.]

Plate I. One of the earliest surviving trade union cards, which was filed among the Crown’s affidavits when woolcombers were prosecuted in 1725 in Alton, Hants. (See p. 59.) Note ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 19,2018 )
Power, Politics, and Culture by Said Edward W
mobi |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Said, Edward W. [Said, Edward W.]

TEN EDWARD SAID: BETWEEN TWO CULTURES You’ve said that your background is a series of displacements and expatriations which can’t ever be recuperated, that the sense of being between cultures ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 19,2018 )
Orwell on Truth by George Orwell
epub |eng | | Author:George Orwell

‘By making it a penal offence to listen in to Allied broadcasts the Germans have ensured that those broadcasts will be accepted as true.’ from review of Voices in the ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 19,2018 )
The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables by Catherine Reid
epub |eng | 2018-04-19 | Author:Catherine Reid

Carnations (Dianthus caryophyllus) on the cover of E. J. Bowen’s Catalogue of 1902, in a color and size that wouldn’t have appeared in a grandmother’s garden; most dianthus are pale ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 19,2018 )
Janet Frame in Focus by Josephine A. McQuail
epub |eng | 2018-01-26 | Author:Josephine A. McQuail

Locus of Identity Formation and Plural Identities The necessity for the feminine voice to emancipate itself through writing is expressed in a multiplicity of ways in both essays and fiction ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 19,2018 )
Environmental Humanities by Serpil Oppermann Serenella Iovino & Serenella Iovino
epub |eng | 2017-04-19 | Author:Serpil Oppermann,Serenella Iovino & Serenella Iovino

PART I—PYRITES AND RESOURCES The mining in Corta Atalaya joined the ranks of the Great Acceleration since the second half of the nineteenth century in shaping the world in which ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 19,2018 )
Beginning Postcolonialism by McLeod John
epub |eng | 2013-01-18 | Author:McLeod, John

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 19,2018 )
An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom: Roberto Bolaño's 2666 (...AFTERWORDS) by Jonathan Russell Clark
azw3 |eng | 2018-04-01 | Author:Jonathan Russell Clark [Clark, Jonathan Russell]

( Category: History & Criticism April 19,2018 )
The Badiou Dictionary by Steven Corcoran
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Corcoran

Philosophy and Politics In order to construct a positive relation to politics as thought, Badiou posits two basic statements, both of which are rejected by political philosophy: statement 1 is ...
( Category: Philosophy April 18,2018 )

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