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Sinophone Studies by Shu-mei Shih
epub | | 2012-12-02 | Author:Shu-mei Shih

Proletarian Fiction: Nativist and Critical Modernity The New Taiwan Literature Movement of the 1920s and 1930s tried to change people’s worldviews to assist in political and social modernization. Eventually it ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 2,2016 )
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis by David Der-wei Wang
epub | | 2015-01-12 | Author:David Der-wei Wang

The action and costuming of the roles in Chinese drama indicate that they are not figures of reality. Objectively speaking, they can be likened to puppets, to ghosts; subjectively, they ...
( Category: Poetry March 2,2016 )
Slaughterhouse 90210 by Maris Kreizman
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:Maris Kreizman

Mary Gaitskill / Boogie Nights (here) Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic 1997 film about a rising (pun intended) porn actor starred Mark Wahlberg, who was previously best known for being the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 2,2016 )
The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Franzen, Jonathan & Kraus, Karl [Franzen, Jonathan]

it’s like the bitter irony of my picking up Gravity’s Rainbow when I can’t write these days, oh what a mess, I find Bloom’s style revolting in hindsight, his Manifesto ...
( Category: Essays March 1,2016 )
Tales from Shakespeare (Yesterday's Classics) by Lamb Charles & Mary
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Lamb, Charles & Mary [Lamb, Charles and Mary]

Bertram never knew how sensible a lady Helena was, else perhaps he would not have been so regardless of her; and seeing her every day, he had entirely overlooked her ...
( Category: Drama & Theater March 1,2016 )
The Spectre of Hegel by Louis Althusser
epub |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Louis Althusser

C. Countenancing the Contentf It would seem that we have worked our way to the end of the critical undertaking by which the post-Hegelian mind attempted to dispel the vague ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 1,2016 )
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-09-22 | Author:Hannah Arendt [Arendt, Hannah]

IX : Deportations from the Reich—Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate Between the Wannsee Conference in January, 1942, when Eichmann felt like Pontius Pilate and washed his hands in innocence, and ...
( Category: Holocaust February 29,2016 )
Serendipities by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Umberto Eco

Since we began by speaking of China, let us see what Kircher, insatiable in his lunatic curiosity, did with China. Egyptian was an original language, certainly more perfect than Hebrew ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Whereas newspapers once had to send their spies into the corridors of power in Rome to wrangle cautious admissions out of people in the know, today if anything they have ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

4.2 Files and Directories Let us try therefore to compare our cognitive processes, from the first perceptions to the constitution of any knowledge, not necessarily scientific, to the organization of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 22,2016 )
Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco

1983 Culture as Show Business The years 1979 and 1980 were a time when, as some ripened novelties were already being theorized, the first puzzled questions were beginning to be ...
( Category: Essays February 22,2016 )
Inventing the Enemy: Essays by Eco Umberto
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]

He who sees it shivers with the most mysterious of shivers . . . The scaffold is a vision . . . It seems as though it were a being, ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
On Literature by Umberto Eco
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Even without checking this against the original Greek, the spirit of this analysis is clear. Pseudo-Longinus is performing textual semiotics. And he is performing an act of criticism—at least according ...
( Category: Essays February 22,2016 )
A Dictionary of Literary Symbols by Michael Ferber
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Ferber

N Nature “Nature” in Greek (physis) and Latin (natura) at first meant the nature of something, as in Lucretius’ title “On the Nature of Things,” but it came to stand ...
( Category: European February 21,2016 )
At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant
epub |eng | | Author:Katherine Sturtevant

SIR PATIENT FANCY 1 The day after I told my father of my decision I sent our boy Godfrey to the Gosse house with a two-word message to Anne: I ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling February 15,2016 )

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