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Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 by Berlin Isaiah
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Berlin, Isaiah [Berlin, Isaiah]

1953–1955 ALL SOULS CLEARLY NOTHING WILL ever be the same again.1 IB flew home, arriving early on Sunday 13 December, and spent ‘two quite cheerful days’2 with his father in ...
( Category: Philosophers June 19,2015 )
The Hedgehog and the Fox by Ignatieff Michael Hardy Henry Berlin Isaiah
epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Ignatieff, Michael, Hardy, Henry, Berlin, Isaiah

1 ‘On dirait l’esprit d’un chimiste anglais dans l’âme d’un bouddhiste hindou; se charge qui pourra d’expliquer cet étrange accouplment’: Le Roman russe (Paris, 1886), 282. 2 Archilochus fragment 201 ...
( Category: Russian June 19,2015 )
Slipstream: A Memoir by Elizabeth Jane Howard
epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Elizabeth Jane Howard [Howard, Elizabeth Jane]

PART THREE 1 One morning – it must have been a blurb-writing day – I noticed that Cecil seemed unusually absorbed by a proof copy he was reading. When I ...
( Category: European June 18,2015 )
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:David Bellos [Bellos, David]

SEVENTEEN The Third Code: Translation as a Dialect What language do you speak? That sounds like a merely factual inquiry with an uncomplicated answer, whatever it is. But as I ...
( Category: Natural Language Processing June 18,2015 )
The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 9 (of 18) by John Dryden
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:John Dryden [Dryden, John]

Sir William Jones was an excellent lawyer, and, in his private character, an upright, worthy, and virtuous man; in his religion he had some tendency to nonconformity, and his political ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 18,2015 )
The Shadow of a Great Rock by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | 2011-06-16 | Author:Harold Bloom

Daniel In my far-off youth, when I was an intoxicated exegete of William Blake, the book of Daniel held enormous fascination for me. In old age I am wary of ...
( Category: European June 17,2015 )
The American Religion by Bloom Harold
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Bloom, Harold [Bloom, Harold]

The you and we are Mrs. Stetson’s own italics, helping acutely to emphasize the authentic accent of the enthusiast. Alas, Mrs. Stet-son was not saved from the inevitable rejection endured ...
( Category: United States June 17,2015 )
Nabokov in America by Robert Roper
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Robert Roper [Roper, Robert]

Corral Log Motel (interior) He had sent White something else instead, a story about Pnin, a Russian-born professor, which was suitable. Writing that and writing the installments of Speak, Memory ...
( Category: Russian June 16,2015 )
On Late Style by Said Edward W
epub |eng | 2006-06-15 | Author:Said, Edward W. [SAID, EDWARD W.]

In their movement of regenerative rebellion, the Palestinians, like the Algerians and Black Panthers before them, show Genet a new language, not of orderly communication, but of astonishing lyricism, of ...
( Category: United States June 16,2015 )
The Edward Said Reader by Said Edward W. Rubin Andrew. Bayoumi Moustafa
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Said, Edward W.,Rubin, Andrew.,Bayoumi, Moustafa.

9 Permission to Narrate (1984) [W]e’re here in Beirut as names for a different homeland, where meanings will find their words again in the midst of this sea and on ...
( Category: History & Theory June 16,2015 )
Joplin's Ghost by Tananarive Due
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Tananarive Due [Due, Tananarive]

Hear me speak, my brethren here, And my comely sisters too. We’ve toiled so hard for many a year, And our future many rue. Our old way of life will ...
( Category: United States June 15,2015 )
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Young Robert J. C
epub |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Young, Robert J. C. [Young, Robert J. C.]

Or is it we as viewers who assume this? Does this representation of a woman give us what the artist wanted us to see, a certain image of ‘the Arab ...
( Category: History & Theory June 15,2015 )
Power, Politics, and Culture by Edward W. Said
epub |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Edward W. Said [Said, Edward W.]

10 Edward Said: Between Two Cultures You’ve said that your background is a series of displacements and expatriations which can’t ever be recuperated, that the sense of being between cultures ...
( Category: General June 15,2015 )
Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings by Erich Muhsam
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Erich Muhsam

1. Auguste Comte (1798–1857); Thomas Müntzer (1488–1525), peasant rebel leader 2. Literally, “time of the genius;” refers to German arts and literature of the late eighteenth century. 3. Friedrich Hölderlin ...
( Category: European June 15,2015 )
Complete Poems by C.P. Cavafy
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:C.P. Cavafy [Cavafy, C. P.]

We have Cavafy’s transcription of this passage into Modern Greek, and it is worth quoting because, in the subtle alterations it makes to the original, it sheds light on the ...
( Category: European June 15,2015 )

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