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epub |eng | 2019-11-24 | Author:Frank Furedi

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epub |eng | 2010-09-05 | Author:Linda Hutcheon

CHAPTER SIX The Language of Fiction: Creating the Heterocosm of Fictive Referents These people aren’t real. I’m making them up as I go along, any section that threatens to flesh ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:Benjamin Wiker

There you have it. A cold shudder indeed. Think of it, the future landscape with nothing but unaspiring Irishmen multiplying off into the horizon, while the Great Scot sits sternly ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Mark Glickman [Glickman, Mark]

Sutzkever concealed some of the material in the walls and floors of his own apartment, and he found other such hiding places as well. In one of the great ironies ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-17 | Author:Peter Finn & Petra Couvée

Irina and a friend brought the letter to the Central Committee building on the Old Square that night. They asked a guard smoking in the shadows of the entryway where ...

epub |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Jay Parini [Parini, Jay]

III. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK consists of fourteen separate essays and sketches, most of which had a separate life before coming together in book form. There is even one ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Tatar, Maria [Tatar, Maria]

THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE SECRET GARDEN, AND THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH CHAMPION the importance of learning how to do things with words, hinting that control over language conquers helplessness and ...

epub |eng | 2002-08-12 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

CHAPTER 29 * * * Slash and Burn Patricia Battin gave me a brittle book when we met one afternoon in Washington, at the offices of the Council on Library ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Beth Blum

LETTING BYGONES BE BYGONES Learning, perhaps, from Yeats’s library failure, and giving the lie to Martin Amis’s view of Ulysses as a “war against cliché,”88 Joyce strategically employs proverbial wisdom ...

epub |eng | | Author:Zach Dundas

Against his grim backdrop, Conan Doyle turns The Hound of the Baskervilles into a philosophical battle of reason versus unreason. From the beginning, there’s a debate on: could the hound ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:Scott Sherman [Sherman, Scott]

Our division has been dissolved. Our reading rooms have been closed. Our librarians have been reassigned … In theory, we continue as collections, the Asian and the Baltic, but I’m ...

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“No Dictionary Required” As popular as the book club may be, it nonetheless worries some commentators who fear its success will tarnish the standards by which books are judged. A ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Adam Kirsch

6 “howl” and the visionary gleam If Wordsworth, for Trilling, represents the wisdom of passiveness, then the poet who best represents the modern desire for rebellion and unmasking, for the ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-21 | Author:Johnson, William A.; Parker, Holt N.;

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