History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Ross James [Ross, James Bruce & McLaughlin, Mary Martin]

His Own Deeds GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS Twelfth century GIRALDUS was born [c. 1145-47] in South Wales, on the coast of Dyfed, not far from the principal town of Pembroke, that is, ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-15 | Author:Roy Adkins & Lesley Adkins [Adkins, Roy & Adkins, Lesley]

( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2018 )
epub, pdf | | 2011-10-06 | Author:Henry Miller [Miller, Henry]

Out of a clear sky there comes one day a letter from Boris whom I have not seen for months and months. It is a strange document and I don’t ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

14 Unflinching Reality Within weeks of meeting Melville in August 1850, Hawthorne had procured copies of the young novelist’s two latest books, Redburn and White-Jacket. Both were based on Melville’s ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Philip Thody [Thody, Philip]

What he was really doing, in Goldmann’s view, was expressing the world view of a class condemned by history to the same kind of political impotence that Euripides’ heroes and ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Jeff Collins [Collins, Jeff]

Derrida’s “Signature, event, context” ends with Derrida’s signature. He signs with an im/pure signature, a paraph and a re-mark. What’s important in this argument about communication and signatures? Derrida has ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-04 | Author:Owen Holland [Holland, Owen]

The connection between a signifier, such as “dog”, and its signified will differ in different languages: French speakers use a different signifier (chien) and Spanish speakers yet another (perro). The ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:David Norris [Norris, David]

We are left with the quiet ecstasy of the Celtic twilight – an image of the moon reflected in sea pools. With typical irony, Joyce turns this romantic vision of ...
( Category: Graphic Novels March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Chris Horrocks [Horrocks, Chris]

Foucaults non-discursive formations (economic processes, institutions) produce discourses and become organized (or “said”) by them; in a superficially similar way, Althusser’s relates to its ideological superstructure. Against Structuralism Although Foucault ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Nick Groom [Groom, Nick]

On the other hand, it was Eliot who said of Hamlet that it was “most certainly an artistic failure”, and who heralded his form of Modernism in “The Love Song ...
( Category: Graphic Novels March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Duncan Heath [Heath, Duncan]

Our search is for a renewal of the initial inwardness of feeling felt by children. The synaesthetic work of art would approximate the childlike ability to assimilate differing sensations into ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Philip Thody [Thody, Philip]

The play was widely interpreted as an attack on Communism! But what else does the plot show? The party line is, at one and the same time, sufficiently sacred to ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-24 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

( Category: Genre Fiction March 25,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Thucydides

656 The four major Panhellenic athletic festivals were the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean and Isthmian, and an extension was needed because the Pythian took place in late summer while the truce ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 1977-12-31 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

( Category: Genre Fiction March 25,2018 )