History & Criticism
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Reynolds, Kimberley [Reynolds, Kimberley]

In converged readings, stories become multisensory combinations of all available media: they are read, played, watched, and heard. What is particularly interesting about Harry Potter is that it began with ...
( Category: Children's Literature January 5,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:David J. Peterson

Geilää liivinith domintaath. (domintaa “scout,” nominative) “The warrior attacked with a scout (or accompanied by a scout).” Benefactive: The benefactive case is used with a noun on behalf of whom ...
( Category: Fiction January 4,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-25 | Author:Labanyi, Jo [Labanyi, Jo]

11. Drawing by Lorca, Self-Portrait in New York (Antorretrato en Nueva York) Censorship and literary anachronism During the Franco dictatorship (1939–75), censorship and travel restrictions isolated Spain, particularly in the ...
( Category: European January 3,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Ferber, Michael [Ferber, Michael]

In France, Alfred de Musset indulges in a similar nostalgia: ‘O Greece! … / / I am a citizen of your ancient ages; / My soul with the bee strays ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Liu Hsieh [Hsieh, Liu]

XIX. Edict and Script (Chao Ts’e) Translator’s note: From the text of this chapter, it seems obvious that no one of the terms used to stand for different types of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Julius Green

SCENE THREE Saunders’ Folly Witness for the Prosecution is Agatha Christie’s undisputed theatrical masterpiece. This accomplished three-act courtroom drama with its classic ‘quadruple twist’ ending sets the benchmark for the ...
( Category: Drama January 2,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:George Steiner

2 In the history and dieory of literature translation has not been a subject of the first importance. It has figured marginally, if at all. The exception is the study ...
( Category: Linguistics December 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-28 | Author:Jefferson, Ann

A DOSE OF PHOSPHOROUS Balzac endows Lambert with most of the features that characterize genius in the thinking of the time.11 Lambert has the imagination (“an almost divine imagination”), the ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Shirane, Haruo

FIGURE 21 DOLL’S FESTIVAL AND IKEBANA This “portrait of a beautiful person” (biiinga) in Chōbunsai Eishi’s series “Elegant Five Sacred Festivals” (Fūryū gosekku, ca. 1794–1795) exemplifies the ways in which ...
( Category: Asian December 28,2015 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part I Of Vice and Men Begin professional report and opinion here Insofar as we are able to be objective, here follows a brief physical ...
( Category: United States December 27,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-08 | Author:Hermione Lee [Lee, Hermione]

One answer to this intractable difficulty, an evasive and playful one, was to rewrite biography as comic, parodic fiction. Flush (1933) told the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning through the ...
( Category: History & Criticism December 27,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Robert Pogue Harrison [Harrison, Robert Pogue]

I have commented at length on the Gettysburg Address in my book The Dominion of the Dead and elsewhere, hence I will not reiterate here what I asserted in those ...
( Category: Social Philosophy December 25,2015 )
epub |deu, eng, fra | 2015-08-12 | Author:Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

[y] Antonin Artaud, “[Histoire vécue d’Artaud-Mômo]” (1947), in Œuvres complètes (Paris: Gallimard, 1994), 26:168 [my translation]. [z] Artaud, “[Histoire vécue d’Artaud-Mômo],” in Œuvres complètes, 26:168 [my translation]. II Ending and ...
( Category: Deconstruction December 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adorno, Theodor W.

Notes 1 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis, 1987), p. 43. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid., p. 64. 4 Adorno, Notes to Literature, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, ...
( Category: Theory December 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Wright

* If Douglas did harbour such hopes as he sat in the Tite Street library on that July afternoon, the portents would have struck him as auspicious. He was, as ...
( Category: European December 22,2015 )