History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2007-03-31 | Author:Michael Dirda [Dirda, Michael]

* * * SIX LIVING IN THE WORLD I assure you, doctor, it is a relatively simple matter for a weathered charlatan like myself to keep up interest in so ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-06-30 | Author:Chomei, Kamo no [Chomei, Kamo no]

People plowed in spring and planted in summer, but in vain. There was no happy bustle of autumn harvest of laying away in winter. In every region people gave up ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2077-08-23 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

How thoughtful of the Pottery Barn catalog to send its customers back on this short but fiery thematic mission, and at the same time to rescue Mary Ward Brown’s Tongues ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:William C. Dowling [Dowling, William C.]

5 – Narrative and Interpretation A glance at the subtitle of The Political Unconscious, Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, is enough to suggest that narrative will be at the ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Burke, Kenneth

PROGRAM ART--"eternal" in so far as it deals with the constants of humanity ("constants of humanity": the recurrent emotions, the fundamental attitudes, the typical experiences). But art is also historical--a ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Mary McAuliffe

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Centennial (1889) By early 1889, the Eiffel Tower was almost complete—an awe-inspiring symbol of the new and the modern rising up over the Champ de Mars. Yet this ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-06-13 | Author:Marie Arana [Arana, Marie]

THE EARTH WAS always moving in those days. Pachamama was temperamental, moody, shifting her weight heavily beneath us, tossing from side to side. My mother and father were pricked with ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 14,2017 )
epub |deu | 2010-11-27 | Author:tschick [tschick]

26 Zum Abschied gingen sie noch alle mit ans Gartentor, und da bekamen wir einen riesigen Kürbis geschenkt. Der lag da rum, ein riesiger Kürbis, falls wir Hunger hätten, könnten ...
( Category: European June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Arthur Koestler [Koestler, Arthur]

The action takes place in a home for German refugee children near Paris; time, the present. The characters are children from 2 1/2 to 16 years, mostly of proletariau origin; ...
( Category: British & Irish June 14,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-01 | Author:Dan Crompton

EURIPIDES: ELECTRA Euripides was a contemporary of Sophocles, and certainly would also have learnt from Aeschylus. Both he and Sophocles wrote plays called Electra at about the same time, based ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-26 | Author:Gregory Nagy [Nagy, Gregory]

Footnotes [ back ] 1. Cf. GM 29: “the language of a body of oral poetry like the Iliad and Odyssey does not and cannot belong to any one time, ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Lauren Leto [Leto, Lauren]

BASICS Very possibly Patrick Bateman’s favorite novelist, Rand used her philosophy of objectivism to further her belief that an efficient society is one where people focus on benefiting themselves. ESSENTIALOGRAPHY ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-04-15 | Author:adam piette [piette, adam]

-139- analysis of their secret sense in parentheses. This sudden move gives real, personal matter to the narrator's admiration for 'phrase-types' which reveal 'une réalité cachée', the reality of Albertine's ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-02 | Author:Su Tong & Howard Goldblatt [Tong, Su & Goldblatt, Howard]

Back at Hundred Springs Terrace, Lord Hengming had chosen to ride each of his precious Snow Mountain horses instead of a horse-man. Tens of thousands of thoroughbred Blue Cloud white ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-08-29 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

Even after the electric motor eased the physical labor of the projectionist, silent film studios often furnished cue sheets along with their prints, which itemized the changes in speed that, ...
( Category: Literary June 14,2017 )