History & Criticism
epub |eng | | Author:Stacey D'Erasmo

It isn’t until midway through the story that the first-person narrator reveals himself and reveals that he’s been narrating all along. He slips into a scene that at first doesn’t ...
( Category: Authorship February 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mojca Küplen

The main idea that these passages suggest is that judgments of taste depend on an a priori principle and that this principle is the necessary presupposition of the purposiveness of ...
( Category: Medieval January 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Ramona Fradon [Fradon, Ramona]

Then his disciples were amazed at all the things that he had said to them and they accepted them on faith. But he had only come to the bottom of ...
( Category: Philosophy January 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Hose, Martin; Schenker, David; & David Schenker

8. The Elasticity of the Greek Novel After this brief survey we are in a better position to ask whether the love novel as represented by the “big five” should ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 25,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Rita Felski [Felski, Rita]

Works of metafiction (Pale Fire) openly advertise and revel in these gamelike features of interpretation, but all texts can be read along similar lines by being treated as imaginary opponents ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 25,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Janet Todd [Todd, Janet]

Literally or figuratively? The earnestness of Mansfield Park is buttressed by a new sense of significance in its episodes, Austen's experimental use of symbolism less to structure the book than ...
( Category: European January 24,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

12. BEAM ME UP If your first experience of teleportation was Star Trek and the all-too-frequent requests to Mr. Scott to be beamed up (wonderfully parodied in Galaxy Quest), then ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy January 24,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maurice Blanchot, Charlotte Mandell

Your eye, as blind as a stone. Flower—a blind man’s word. Songs: voice of gazes, in the choir, You are, there where your eye is, you are up high, are ...
( Category: European January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-29 | Author:Fodor’s Travel

Knightsbridge Fodor’s Choice | Ametsa with Arzak Instruction. $$$ | SPANISH | Cool hunters and Hispanophiles bask in a fantasia of New Basque cuisine at this modernist romp at the ...
( Category: Architecture January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:Paterson, Katherine

“In an instant,” Maud wrote, “flashed into my mind my father’s last words, ‘Mary, my mother, my Redeemer.’” Despite the fact that she had parted ways with the Episcopal Mission ...
( Category: Children's Literature January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-18 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

CHAPTER XXXI. A Consultation Whether to Proceed by Land or Water— Preparations for Boat-Building.—An Exploring Party.—A Party of Trappers Detached.—Two Snake Visitors.—Their Report Concerning the River.—Confirmed by the Exploring Party.—Mad ...
( Category: Biographical January 21,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-09-13 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER 13 — Tom Stares at Ruin When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER Bayreuth, Aug. 2d, 1891 It was at Nuremberg that we struck the inundation of music-mad strangers that was rolling down upon Bayreuth. It had ...
( Category: Civil War January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-30 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SKETCH-BOOK. In the cloisters of the ancient Benedictine convent of San Domingo, at Silos, in Castile, are the mouldering yet magnificent monuments of the once ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory January 21,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Bivald, Katarina [Bivald, Katarina]

Dream Inflation NOW THAT THE bookshop had been open for a little while, Sara was really starting to enjoy her days there, but it was a melancholy kind of enjoyment. ...
( Category: Humorous January 21,2016 )