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On Moral Fiction by John Gardner
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-02-20 | Author:John Gardner [Gardner, John]

I will mention one last check on fiction’s honesty: tradition. No writer imagines he exists in a literary void. Though writers rarely read as widely as do critics—partly because writers ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 18,2018 )
Mapping Michel Serres by Abbas Niran;
epub |eng | | Author:Abbas, Niran;

THE PREFECT AS PERFECT SQUARE The prefect in Poe's story is portrayed as a square, the voice of official reason and the embodiment of a Cartesian positivism. The prefect conceives ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 18,2018 )
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Martin Amis

* * * * The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, surprisingly, is DeLillo’s first collection. In the course of his career he has published twenty shorter fictions, so there has already ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 18,2018 )
The New Gay for Pay: The Sexual Politics of American Television Production by Julia Himberg
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Julia Himberg [Himberg, Julia]

Figure 3.2. When Jenner announced her transition from male to female, she gave Vanity Fair an exclusive interview in which she revealed her name, Caitlyn, publicly. The media frenzy over ...
( Category: LGBT March 18,2018 )
Sketches from a Hunter's Album (Classics) by Ivan Turgenev
azw3 |eng | 1990-08-30 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan]

Tatyana Borisovna and her Nephew Give me your hand, dear reader, and come on an outing. The weather is beautiful. The May sky glows a gentle blue. The smooth young ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 18,2018 )
Brevity by David Galef
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-11-01 | Author:David Galef

DISCUSSION What details stick out most to you? Which version do you like best, and why? EXERCISES Take any story you’ve written that’s longer than five pages and try to ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 18,2018 )
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
epub |eng | 1994-01-14 | Author:Alejo Carpentier [Carpentier, Alejo]

The departure of Pauline marked the end of such common sense as still existed in the colony. Under the government of Rochambeau, the remaining landowners of the Plaine, all hope ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 18,2018 )
The Written World: How Literature Shaped History by Martin Puchner
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-02 | Author:Martin Puchner [Puchner, Martin]

CHAPTER 8 THE POPOL VUH AND MAYA CULTURE: A SECOND, INDEPENDENT LITERARY TRADITION A TRAP AND A BOOK 1532, PERU THE SPANISH SOLDIERS HAD BEEN LYING IN WAIT ALL DAY. ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 18,2018 )
The Hatred of Literature by William Marx
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:William Marx

After the many extreme arguments expressed throughout the tract, this conclusion seems surprisingly moderate: Tanneguy recognizes that poetry can be somewhat useful for learning languages, puts forward a model of ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 18,2018 )
Miserere Mei by King'oo Clare Costley;
epub |eng | 2013-01-25 | Author:King'oo, Clare Costley; [King’oo, Clare Costley]

Me thinkes I doe euen still see with mine eyes that poore woman bayning [bathing] her selfe: me thinkes I see Dauid troubled in spirit, and while he resisteth his ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference March 18,2018 )
Literature and the Creative Economy by Brouillette Sarah;
epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Brouillette, Sarah; [Brouillette, Sarah]

FIGURE 1. Cover of Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover!, first printing, Faber and Faber, 2007. FIGURE 2. Cover of Daljit Nagra’s Look We Have Coming to Dover!, ...
( Category: British & Irish March 18,2018 )
Colonial Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Rolena Adorno
azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:Rolena Adorno [Adorno, Rolena]

Chapter 7 Urban Baroque The European literary and artistic phenomenon called the Baroque (etymologically, a misshapen pearl) has been defined variously as a historical movement, spanning the seventeenth through the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 18,2018 )
Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction by Mitzi M. Brunsdale
epub |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Mitzi M. Brunsdale

Award-Winning Norwegian Crime Fiction Titles in quotation marks are English versions of original Norwegian titles as yet untranslated into English; these may not resemble eventual English titles. Titles of published ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 18,2018 )
Shaggy Muses by Maureen Adams
epub |eng | 2007-03-17 | Author:Maureen Adams [Adams, Maureen]

Teddy Wharton with his dog Jules, ca. 1855. Edith and Teddy enjoyed the summer together in Newport. Lucretia, clearly pleased, arranged an elaborate dinner party in Teddy's honor. The courtship ...
( Category: Women's Studies March 17,2018 )
The Cambridge Companion to Keats by Susan J. Wolfson
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Susan J. Wolfson

NOTES 1 In Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries (1828), Leigh Hunt excerpted a letter (10 May 1817; KL 1.136–40); R. M. Milnes published about eighty letters (whole or ...
( Category: Poetry March 17,2018 )

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