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Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Glyer
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Pavlac Glyer

DOING WHAT THEY DID: There is an art to giving feedback. It is common for critics to offer diagnoses: This is boring. This is choppy. This character isn’t working. The ...
( Category: Science Fiction July 19,2016 )
Theory of Literature by Paul H. Fry
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Paul H. Fry

CHAPTER 15 The Postmodern Psyche Readings: Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. “Introduction: Rhizome.” In A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Žižek, Slavoj. “Courtly Love.” ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 19,2016 )
Discontent and Its Civilizations (NF8) by Mohsin Hamid
mobi |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Mohsin Hamid

POLITICS 8 The Usual Ally Divided We Fall After Sixty Years, Will Pakistan Be Reborn? The Usual Ally I REMEMBER, as a boy in Lahore, the moment I learned Pakistan ...
( Category: General July 18,2016 )
Introducing Walter Benjamin by Howard Caygill
epub |eng | | Author:Howard Caygill

People walk in zigzags because it’s so overcrowded … And my hair is very electric here! Benjamin witnessed the post-mortem cult of Lenin with its iconic images and figures of ...
( Category: Philosophy July 18,2016 )
The Use of Bodies by Giorgio Agamben & Adam Kotsko
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Giorgio Agamben & Adam Kotsko [Agamben, Giorgio]

§ 3 Toward a Modal Ontology 3.1. Perhaps never as in the correspondence between Leibniz and Des Bosses did the inadequacy of the Aristotelian apparatus in accounting for singularity emerge ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 18,2016 )
Real Food / Fake Food
epub |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:Larry Olmsted

7. Champagne and Scotch: The Sincerest Form of Flattery Generic? Really? Saying Champagne means any sparkling wine is like saying Rolls Royce means any car. You have to be an ...
( Category: Industries July 13,2016 )
Dream Song by Paul Mariani
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Paul Mariani

Chapter 16 The Unmaking of a Marriage 1953 A new year and a new beginning. On Sunday afternoon, January 4, Berryman took a long walk around Lake Carnegie with Monroe ...
( Category: Authors July 12,2016 )
When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R'lyehian Spirituality by Scott R Jones
epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Scott R Jones [Jones, Scott R]

Beating Nietzsche’s Horse: Notes on the Black Gnosis and Mental Illness Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well ...
( Category: Philosophy July 11,2016 )
Bellow's People by David Mikics
epub |eng | | Author:David Mikics

HERZOG MADE BELLOW a famous and wealthy man. The late sixties were years of celebrity for him, but much of the money he made would go to alimony and child ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 11,2016 )
The Philosophy of Tolkien by Kreeft Peter
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-04-09 | Author:Kreeft, Peter [Kreeft, Peter]

6.3 Is faith (trust) wisdom or ignorance? The Lord of the Rings never shows us a choice for or against any explicitly religious or supernatural faith. But it shows us ...
( Category: European July 11,2016 )
Brecht in Practice by Barnett David
epub |eng | | Author:Barnett, David

Playing the situation and not the character, or: The problem of saying ‘I’ Brecht understands the individual not as a lone, autonomous entity, but as a person in constant dialogue ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 8,2016 )
The Man Who Invented Fiction by William Egginton
epub |eng | 2015-11-18 | Author:William Egginton [Egginton, William]

For modern readers, pastoral has, to put it mildly, gone out of style. There are good reasons for this. Pastoral plots consist largely of handsome shepherds pining for virtuous shepherdesses ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2016 )
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays by Cynthia Ozick
epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Ozick

Transcending the Kafkaesque How, after all, does one dare, how can one presume? Franz Kafka, named for the fallen crown of a defunct empire, has himself metamorphosed into an empire ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2016 )
Winning Arguments by Stanley Fish
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Stanley Fish

CHAPTER 4 LEGAL ARGUMENTS What You Can and Cannot Say in Court MARITAL ARGUMENTS ERUPT when a conversation goes out of control—things being said that shouldn’t be said, molehills being ...
( Category: Communication July 8,2016 )
The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter
epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Robert Alter

It will be noted that the two ends of this schema of structuring devices, the Leitwort and the type-scene, reflect distinctively biblical literary conventions (though of course one can find ...
( Category: Genres & Styles July 8,2016 )

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