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Suleiman's Ring: A Novel by Sherif Meleka
epub | | | Author:Sherif Meleka

“Beautiful—everyone should see this work, Mister Buri.” Despite the fact that autumn had arrived—officially, at least—Qena was still languishing in the dog days of summer, as attested by the sticky ...
( Category: Renaissance June 17,2023 )
States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic by Alice Kaplan Laura Marris
pdf |en | | Author: Alice Kaplan, Laura Marris

( Category: French June 16,2023 )
What Barfield Thought by Landon Loftin;Max Leyf;
epub |eng | 2023-05-03 | Author:Landon Loftin;Max Leyf; [Loftin, Landon]

147. The extroverted, inquisitive, and iconographic soul of the ancient Greeks is on display in their plethora of terms related to sight, just as Sanskrit demonstrates the introversion of the ...
( Category: Religion June 14,2023 )
Ancestral Tales by Alan Mintz
epub |eng | 2017-06-15 | Author:Alan Mintz [Mintz, Alan]

6 Austrian Mandates The half million Jews that Austria received upon the first partition of Poland in 1772 was an equivocal gift. The number of Jews in the empire doubled ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2023 )
Understanding Alice Walker by Thadious M. Davis;
epub |eng | 2021-06-15 | Author:Thadious M. Davis;

CHAPTER 4 The World of the Word Mediating Self The world—the animals, including us humans—wants to be engaged in something entirely other, seeing and delighting in, the stark wonder of ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2023 )
The World According to Proust by Joshua Landy
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:Joshua Landy

Proust’s manuscript page of the “style for the writer” sentence. Proust was endlessly adding to his text, jamming words inside sentences, sentences inside paragraphs; everything constantly grew from the middle.40 ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2023 )
Theocritus by William G. Thalmann;
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:William G. Thalmann;

Before considering this passage in detail, it will be useful to discuss why it is not wholly satisfactory to call it an example of the “pathetic fallacy.” Some scholars, in ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2023 )
Why Modern Manuscripts Matter by Kathryn Sutherland;
epub |eng | 2022-01-22 | Author:Kathryn Sutherland; [Sutherland, Kathryn]

This is still only half the story; equally urgent was Scott’s manufacture of older forms through acts of counterfeit and forgery; what Susan Stewart has described more broadly as the ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2023 )
Nicosia Beyond Barriers by Alev Adil
epub |eng | | Author:Alev Adil

A WALK THROUGH LEDRA Kivanc Houssein ‘Nicosia? Why would you want to go to Nicosia? It’s a city – too hot, too dry, why the other side? … stay here. ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2023 )
The Aesthetic Commonplace by Nancy Yousef;
epub |eng | 2022-03-02 | Author:Nancy Yousef; [Yousef, Nancy]

3 “When we feel the truth of a commonplace” Form and Inflection in Eliot and Wittgenstein There was something horrible…in the sensation which this unresponsive hardness inflicted on her. That ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2023 )
Don't Forget to Live by Pierre Hadot
epub |eng | 2023-04-05 | Author:Pierre Hadot [Hadot, Pierre]

DAIMÔN: DEMON2 As on the day that gave you to the world, to greet the planets, in conformity with3 the sun’s position, You developed straightway, and continued without cease, Following ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2023 )
How to Think Like a Woman by Regan Penaluna
epub |eng | 2023-03-01 | Author:Regan Penaluna

Here’s an old trick philosophers use when doubtful: invoke a demon. Descartes famously used this technique when he wasn’t sure whether he could trust anything he’d learned in school or ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 14,2023 )
Omnicompetent Modernists by Matthew Hofer;
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Hofer; [Hofer, Matthew]

looking out from a dark cave in a side of an impending mountain, sees the world passing and speaks to it; speaks courteously and persuasively, . . . but notices ...
( Category: Modernism June 14,2023 )
Natives Against Nativism by Olivia C. Harrison;
epub |eng | 2023-05-30 | Author:Olivia C. Harrison; [Harrison, Olivia C.]

( Category: French June 14,2023 )
Avidly Reads Theory by Jordan Alexander Stein;
epub |eng | | Author:Jordan Alexander Stein; [Stein, Jordan Alexander]

Judy! zine, page 20 (Courtesy Andrea Lawlor) According to the kind of academic perspective from which theory is usually studied, it’s easy enough to imagine that the work with Dreyfus ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 14,2023 )

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