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Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Rachel Hollis [Hollis, Rachel]

TEN YEARS I like to encourage people to start by closing their eyes and imagining the best version of themselves. Imagine that a decade of time has gone by, and ...
( Category: Study Guides May 8,2019 )
The Shahnameh by Hamid Dabashi
epub |eng | | Author:Hamid Dabashi

WHEN HISTORY REMEMBERS ITSELF From this point forward, we begin to see the unfolding drama of world history dreamed inside the memorial consciousness of the Shahnameh, in what we can ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 26,2019 )
Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? by Barbara Cassin
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Barbara Cassin [Cassin, Barbara]

Arendt: To Have One’s Language for a Homeland The Europe of the pre-Hitler period? I can’t say that I don’t have any nostalgia for it. What remains? The language remains. ...
( Category: Comparative Literature April 1,2018 )
Celtic Unconscious, The by Barlow Richard;
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Barlow, Richard;

“THE PICKTS ARE HACKING THE SAXUMS” At bedtime the twins “jerry” (FW, 565.10) and “keve” (565.15), versions of Shem and Shaun, respectively, are slightly traumatized by the nocturnal sight of ...
( Category: Modern April 6,2017 )
The Art of Intimacy by Stacey D'Erasmo
epub |eng | | Author:Stacey D'Erasmo

It isn’t until midway through the story that the first-person narrator reveals himself and reveals that he’s been narrating all along. He slips into a scene that at first doesn’t ...
( Category: Authorship February 1,2016 )
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Translation/Transnation)
mobi |eng | 2014-02-08 | Author:Unknown

1 French, between thought and dream While other languages, such as English, German, Spanish, or Italian, only have one word for dream ( Ger. Traum, Sp. sueño, Ital. sogno ), ...
( Category: Literature September 24,2015 )
An Ecology of World Literature by Alexander Beecroft
epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Alexander Beecroft [Beecroft, Alexander]

One of the first points to observe is that Dante nowhere identifies the vernacular language he defends as “Italian.” He does use Ytalia to describe a geographic region corresponding fairly ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical August 16,2015 )
Mimesis by Said Edward W. Auerbach Erich Trask Willard R
epub |eng | 2013-06-12 | Author:Said, Edward W., Auerbach, Erich, Trask, Willard R.

12 L’HUMAINE CONDITION LES autres forment l’homme: je le recite; et en représente un particulier bien mal formé, et lequel si j’avoy à façonner de nouveau, je ferois vrayment bien ...
( Category: Comparative Literature June 13,2015 )
Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011 by Jesse Cohn
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Jesse Cohn

The breathless lyricism of this “ideal voyage” could make us miss the poetics of horror that initiate it: diabolical, vertiginous, monstrous, infernal. Why should this Dantesque language be the vehicle ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 13,2015 )

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