epub, pdf |eng | | Author:George Steiner

6 Whorf, Chomsky, and the Student of Literature 1974 The two positions we are considering can be termed ‘monadist’ or ‘relativist’, and ‘universalist’. The monadist case holds that differences between ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1999-11-17 | Author:Carroll, Lewis [Carroll, Lewis]

Carroll then proceeds to interpret the words as follows: BRYLLYG (derived from the verb to BRYL or BROIL), “the time of broiling dinner, i.e. the close of the afternoon.” SLYTHY ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Mark Edmundson

But Shakespeare? DOES THE WORK contain live options? Does it offer paths one might take, modes of seeing and saying and doing that we can put into action in the ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Michael Schmidt [Schmidt, Michael]

Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

THE LIBRARY AS MIND … to give visible form to the psychic presence and to the movements of the soul. Aby Warburg, Ausgewählte Schriften Like Machiavelli, I often sit among ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:James Wood [Wood, James]

80 In fact, the ubiquitous flat character of the English novel, from Mr. Collins to Charles Ryder’s father, tells us something deep about the dialectic of British reticence and sociability, ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-09-21 | Author:A. J. Jacobs [Jacobs, A. J.]

mammals Elephant copulation lasts twenty seconds. That should make a lot of men feel better. Mann, Horace In his final speech, the educational reformer told students: "Be ashamed to die ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Colm Toibin

1 It seemed beyond belief that our neighbour Seamus Doyle, who tended roses, and his wife, Gretta, who went to Mass every day, had once led a revolution, that he ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Wendy McClure

If their photos are any indication, Laura and Almanzo were the cutest old couple ever. They stood side by side in their photos, their poses stiff but matching, and together ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Lesser, Wendy [Lesser, Wendy]

Is it not simpler to grasp that man lives not for the fulfilment of his destiny, not for the incarnation of an idea, not for progress, but solely because he ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:John Sutherland

This splatter for others to clear up is a main reason that Derek Humphry, the guru of ‘assisted death’ (i.e. suicide), urges against this particular ‘solution’. If it is employed ...

epub |eng | 1988-11-01 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

GALLOWAY First publication: Bantam Books paperback, July 1970 Narrator: Flagan Sackett Time Period: c. 1875–1879 Flagan and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. It was ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Steiner [Steiner, George]

Whoever is ultramodern and ascetic Will find Husserl most sympathetic. Though there is rumor going through the land He was someone Heidegger could never understand. Austria generates and experiences the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Pierre Bayard [Bayard, Pierre]

[The host] came charging back: he was dying, it was clear, to talk about the novel. Gastinel rebuffed him, then consented, all the same, after emitting a declamatory sigh, to ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sven Birkerts [Birkerts, Sven]

I want to stay near this business of voice, the particular spanning of outer and inner that Bellow has fashioned to such a high art. For the voice was a ...