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Experiencing Hektor by Lynn Kozak;
epub |eng | 2016-10-22 | Author:Lynn Kozak; [Kozak, Lynn]

Aias/Hektor: 16.358–418 Now the narrative cuts back to Aias, whom the narrative last showed giving way, letting the ships catch fire as he recognized Zeus’s role in Hektor’s success against ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 13,2023 )
The gift of narrative in medieval England by Nicholas Perkins
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Perkins

Troilus and Criseyde Another major poem that Chaucer worked on in the 1380s, with its own series of exchanges with The Knight's Tale, as well as with source and intertextual ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 13,2023 )
Criticism and Politics by Robbins Bruce;
epub |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:Robbins, Bruce;

One prime site of ambivalence is the concept of the organic intellectual. As applied to academics, who might not otherwise seem to deserve the honor of being called intellectuals at ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 13,2023 )
Proust and Signs by Gilles Deleuze
epub |eng | 2014-03-27 | Author:Gilles Deleuze [Gilles Deleuze]

It may be that Proust’s critique of philosophy is eminently philosophical. What philosopher would not hope to set up an image of thought that no longer depends on the goodwill ...
( Category: Movements & Periods June 13,2023 )
Goodbye Eastern Europe by Jacob Mikanowski
epub |eng | | Author:Jacob Mikanowski

Those who did not share Malevich’s faith in the revolution, and who had lived through close to a decade of bloodshed, famine, and unrest, found it hard to look upon ...
( Category: Eastern June 13,2023 )
Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics by Sue Thomas;
epub |eng | | Author:Sue Thomas;

Notes 1 ‘The 1937 International Exhibition, Paris: An International Exposition of Arts and Techniques Applied to Modern Life’, Architectural Record, October 1937, 82, in World’s Fairs: A Global History of ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 13,2023 )
The Ethics of Narrative by Hayden White;Robert Doran;
epub |eng | 2022-05-24 | Author:Hayden White;Robert Doran;

Note 1. [Ed: This essay is a contribution to and commentary on John Brown Childs, Transcommunality: From the Politics of Conversion to the Ethics of Respect (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 13,2023 )
Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies by Matthew Rubery
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:Matthew Rubery

Notes Charles Dickens, Hard Times (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1955), 5. Charles Dickens, Hard Times, read by Frederick Davidson (Ashland, Ore.: Blackstone Audiobooks, 1993; Prince Frederick, Md.: Audio Adventures and ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 13,2023 )
Libraries in Literature by Alice Crawford & Robert Crawford
epub |eng | 2022-07-26 | Author:Alice Crawford & Robert Crawford [Crawford, Alice & Crawford, Robert]

1 Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women (1868–9; repr. Boston: Little, Brown, 1934), 40, 55; for Alcott on library reading see Emily Hamilton-Honey, ‘Guardians of Morality: Librarians and American Girls’ Series ...
( Category: Drama June 13,2023 )
Thoreau's Axe by Caleb Smith
epub |eng | 2022-09-02 | Author:Caleb Smith

In this serpentine passage from Religion in America, Robert Baird brings “mental science” to bear on the problem of religious conversion. He asks: Why is the progress of conviction so ...
( Category: Modern June 13,2023 )
The Picturesque by Hussey Christopher;
epub |eng | 1927-06-15 | Author:Hussey, Christopher;

Another attempt at a Watteau pastorale at Stowe was unsuccessful owing to cold and wet weather and the infirmity of the guests. In describing the fiasco Walpole put his finger ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 13,2023 )
Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation by Parkinson Isabelle;
epub |eng | | Author:Parkinson, Isabelle;

Stein’s Aberrant Authorship These texts – the portraits circulated around the Armory Show, G.M.P., and Tender Buttons – reveal a vision of authorship as a process involving diffuse and multiple ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 13,2023 )
Fugitive Science by Britt Rusert
epub |eng | | Author:Britt Rusert

Science in/as Performance The transatlantic performance of fugitive science included both actual performances and the construction of a robust transatlantic imaginary in early African American cultural production, an imaginary enabled ...
( Category: Black & African American June 13,2023 )
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller by Alan Ackerman;Enoch Brater;
epub |eng | 2019-11-23 | Author:Alan Ackerman;Enoch Brater;

Major Productions On stage The Crucible opened on 22 January 1953 at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway. Despite its later success, the play’s initial reception was mixed, though this ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 13,2023 )
Notes on Sontag by Phillip Lopate;
epub |eng | 2022-10-20 | Author:Phillip Lopate;

“Fascinating Fascism” appeared in 1974, when Sontag had already begun the essays which would comprise On Photography, and both texts worry the morality of photographed images and demonstrate a prosecutorial ...
( Category: Women Authors June 13,2023 )

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