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Leg over Leg: Volumes Three and Four (Library of Arabic Literature) by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq [al-Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris]

4.12.1 After the Fāriyāqiyyah had stayed a while in the land of the peasants, where there was no solace for the stranger and nothing pleasant but the greenery, her patience ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 17,2018 )
Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two (Library of Arabic Literature) by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq [al-Shidyaq, Ahmad Faris]

the mirzāb, “any great, or tall, ship” the zabzab, “a sort of ship” the bārijah, “any large ship for fighting” the khalīj, “a small ship of less size than the ...
( Category: Historical April 17,2018 )
Pier Paolo Pasolini by Annovi Gian Maria;
epub |eng | | Author:Annovi, Gian Maria;

FIGURE 5.2. John Baldessari, Pier 18: Hands Framing New York Harbor (1971). B+W Photographs, Edition of 3, 7 × 10⅛ inches. Source: Image courtesy of John Baldessari. Most criticism has ...
( Category: Performing Arts April 17,2018 )
Ethnography After Antiquity by Anthony Kaldellis
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony Kaldellis

CHAPTER 5 Ethnography in Palaiologan Literature An Introduction to the Palaiologan Period and Its Sources In 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade captured Constantinople and set about the conquest ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 17,2018 )
The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-century Spiritualism and the Occult by Kontou Tatiana. Willburn Sarah A. & Sarah Willburn
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Kontou, Tatiana.,Willburn, Sarah A. & Sarah Willburn

Conclusion and/as Premise ‘The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid’ returns at its end to the imagery of the Treasure House of its beginning. In this final synchronic act, the poem’s ending ...
( Category: Women's Studies April 17,2018 )
Marriage as a Fine Art by Julia Kristeva
epub |eng | 2016-12-20 | Author:Julia Kristeva

It’s no use my trying to come back to life in French; for almost fifty years now my French taste has not always been able to resist the jolts of ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 17,2018 )
Walks with Walser by Carl Seelig
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Carl Seelig

April 9, 1945 A fine blue early spring day, as imagined by Mörike: I see the clouds changing and the river The sun’s golden kiss pierces Deep into my veins; ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 17,2018 )
Monster by Mark Irwin
epub |eng | 2017-05-31 | Author:Mark Irwin

Tolstoy then continues to illustrate how art can fail through various and flawed combinations of these notions. Thus among young artists heartfelt sincerity chiefly prevails, coupled with insignificance of content ...
( Category: Poetry April 16,2018 )
William T. Vollmann by Christopher K. Coffman
epub |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Christopher K. Coffman

He is not, I maintain, making a call for a return to the old essentialism, but rather a call for movement toward a new universalism. Essentialism and Universalism Reading Rising ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 16,2018 )
The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Karl Rove
epub, azw |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Karl Rove [Rove, Karl]

CHAPTER 23 Change Course or Fail The McKinley men gloated over Bryan’s nomination. They could not believe that anyone so young, inexperienced, and extreme had won the Democratic nomination. Bryan’s ...
( Category: Historical April 16,2018 )
William Styron by James West
epub |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:James West

19 Marriage and Ravello AFTER ROSE’S DEPARTURE, Styron hit rock bottom. He decided that the year, thus far at least, had been an utter waste. He had been ill for ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 16,2018 )
William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy by Pyle Eric
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:Pyle, Eric

The pilgrim’s attempted ascent to the light is halted by three beasts: a panther, a lion, and a she-wolf. He despairs, but as he returns to the depths he discerns ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies April 16,2018 )
Caleb Williams or Things as They Are by William Godwin
epub |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:William Godwin [Godwin, William]

* * * CHAPTER X. He began: "It has been the principle of my life, never to inflict a wilful injury upon any thing that lives; I need not express ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays April 16,2018 )
Shakespeare In An Hour by Christopher Baker
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Christopher Baker [Christopher Baker]

THE GLOBE On the night of December 28, 1598, James Burbage’s sons, Cuthbert and Richard, gathered a group of friends, carpenters, and workmen to dismantle the Theatre. They brought the ...
( Category: Performing Arts April 16,2018 )
The Hidden God by Lucien Goldmann
epub |eng | | Author:Lucien Goldmann

Pascal ends by a new statement of the tragic position: ‘These extremes meet and are joined together by force of distance’, but, he adds, ‘in God and in God alone’. ...
( Category: Philosophy April 16,2018 )

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