History & Criticism
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Arthur Miller [Miller, Arthur]

ANN: Simply because when you get excited you don’t control yourself… . [MOTHER comes out of house.] Well, what did he tell you for God’s sake? [Pause] All right, come ...
( Category: Drama March 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2008-03-15 | Author:John Updike

Fraser returns in his endnotes to worry at the issues: “Should Britain have stayed, and pacified the country, assuming the white man's burden? There are those who think so…. Of ...
( Category: Essays March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

Déjà j’entends l’orage du tambour, De cent heros je vois briller la rage, Déjà je vois envahir cent états Et tant d’humains moissonnés avant l’âge. This may not have been ...
( Category: France March 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag [Sontag, Susan]

5 Another storm. After leaving Naples in October, plodding nervily across the Mediterranean, past the ships of warring nations, through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the ocean, up the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

Under the Sign of Saturn In most of the portrait photographs he is looking down, his right hand to his face. The earliest one I know shows him in 1927—he ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

5 Central to modern expectations, and modern ethical feeling, is the conviction that war is an aberration, if an unstoppable one. That peace is the norm, if an unattainable one. ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

3 Because of countless metaphoric flourishes that have made cancer synonymous with evil, having cancer has been experienced by many as shameful, therefore something to conceal, and also unjust, a ...
( Category: Pathology March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Susan Sontag [Sontag, Susan]

Godard “It may be true that one has to choose between ethics and aesthetics, but it is no less true that whichever one chooses, one will always find the other ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Susan Sontag

PRESENCE/ABSENCE. Dance, most present, incarnate of arts, is used by Childs in the service of an aesthetic of absence. This principle was first acknowledged in a Dadaist way, in the ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Norman Mailer

Yet as the film progresses with every skill in evidence, while Brando gives a performance that is unforgettable (and Schneider shows every promise of becoming a major star), as the ...
( Category: General March 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

Yet as the film progresses with every skill in evidence, while Brando gives a performance that is unforgettable (and Schneider shows every promise of becoming a major star), as the ...
( Category: General March 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Matthew Battles

SWIFT TOO WAS “GIVEN TO PROSE.” In his prescient imagination, however, the figure of the universal library rose prematurely into view; before Swift could satirize it, he had to invent ...
( Category: General March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

Memories of a Battle It’s not true that I’ve forgotten everything, the memories are still there, hidden in the grey tangle of the brain, in the damp bed of sand ...
( Category: European March 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Jim Trelease [Trelease, Jim]

In case you weren’t keeping score, that’s an eighty-word sentence, normally not a thirteen-year-old’s reading fare. But I was willing to wade through it to get the scoop on this ...
( Category: Reading & Phonics March 4,2016 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Terry Eagleton

CHAPTER 4 Interpretation One of the things we mean by calling a piece of writing ‘literary’ is that it is not tied to a specific context. It is true that ...
( Category: General March 2,2016 )