History & Criticism
epub |eng | | Author:Saigyo

In some sense such poetry, by way of its presentation of a concrete image to the mind’s eye, itself makes the “hard” concepts of religious or philosophical doctrine somehow “soft” ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Shirley Hazzard

WILLIAM MAXWELL In his eighties, William Maxwell told me, “I love being old.” By then, Bill Maxwell had recurrent and sometimes serious bodily infirmities. His mind and spirit were perhaps ...
( Category: Essays November 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Serge Alternês & Wainman, Alec [Serge Alternês]

( Category: History & Criticism November 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Christine Woodside [Woodside, Christine]

8 LIBERTARIANS IN CONNECTICUT “I owe Rose, for helping me, at first, in selling my books and for the publicity she gave them.” —Laura, in a letter to literary agent ...
( Category: Libertarianism November 27,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas L. Friedman

The Holocene of Geopolitics It is easy to forget today just how much the global order that settled on our planet after World War II and lasted through the post–Cold ...
( Category: Democracy November 25,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Alexander Pushkin

CHAPTER TWO I am a king, I am a slave, I am a worm, I am God. DERZHAVIN3 The next day Charsky was searching for room number 35 in the ...
( Category: Short Stories November 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Melissa Ambrosini

Exercise with Heart Movement is the other key element of feeling fabulously healthy. I used to exercise out of fear of getting fat. I have never been seriously overweight, but ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-21 | Author:Phillip Brian Harper

It is difficult to imagine what more could be reasonably demanded of African American art, and if Annotations meets the exigencies of that category especially well—as my sustained focus on ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-21 | Author:Roberto González Echevarría [Echevarría, Roberto González]

( Category: European November 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-22 | Author:Marissa Greenberg

In this passage, which one scholar calls “some of the strangest lines in Paradise Lost,” Milton represents Paradise and Hell in terms of the distinct sensorial experiences of the city ...
( Category: Renaissance November 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Tina D. Eliopulos

Unfortunately statistics show that about half of the marriages in the United States end in divorce. Like marriage and childbirth, divorce can create a great deal of change in your ...
( Category: Poetry November 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:S.P. Sipal [Sipal, S.P.]

11) Mirrored Images Remember how in the Wormtail trail of clues we analyzed the scene in the Three Broomsticks where Harry first learns about the relationship between Sirius and his ...
epub |eng | | Author:Donaldson, Bruce;

Note that bevallen takes zijn in the perfect. When you like to do something, as opposed to liking a person or thing, you express this with graag (lit. ‘gladly/willingly’) plus ...
( Category: Foreign Language Study & Reference November 5,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:James Gleick

That’s Lucifer, per Lord Byron, on good authority. Luke 4:5: “And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy September 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Frank Kermode

There’s something in his soul O’er which his melancholy sits on brood, And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose Will be some danger … (iii.1.166 ff) This has ...
( Category: Essays September 23,2016 )