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Theory of the Gimmick by Sianne Ngai
epub |eng | | Author:Sianne Ngai

FIGURE 6.12 Sometimes the gimmick intrudes to draw attention to the aesthetic consequences of its own intrusion. In Golden Lager the hand enters from the frame’s bottom corner to emerge ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory July 25,2020 )
Introducing Shakespeare (Introducing...) by Nick Groom
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:Nick Groom [Groom, Nick]

On the other hand, it was Eliot who said of Hamlet that it was “most certainly an artistic failure”, and who heralded his form of Modernism in “The Love Song ...
( Category: Shakespeare July 25,2020 )
Highsmith, Patricia - Ripley Under Ground by Highsmith Patricia
epub |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

14 It was one of the worst lunches Tom had ever sat through, matching almost the lunch with Heloise and her parents after Heloise had told them they were already ...
( Category: Murder July 25,2020 )
Highsmith, Patricia - Ripley's Game by Highsmith Patricia
epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

‘You’re late,’ Simone said as he came in. She was in the living-room with Georges, picture books spread all over the sofa. ‘Customers,’ Jonathan said, and flung his mac on ...
( Category: Murder July 24,2020 )
Weird but Normal: Essays by Mia Mercado
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Mia Mercado [Mercado, Mia]

I’m a Guy’s Girl Oh, I didn’t see you there—I was too busy watching sports and shotgunning beers. I’m a pretty typical tomboy. Also, I’m pretty. It’s confusing, I know. ...
( Category: United States July 24,2020 )
Highsmith, Patricia - Ripley Under Water by Highsmith Patricia
epub |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

Chapter 13 Tom got a taxi, after several minutes’ effort, and asked the driver please to aim for Covent Garden, and gave Ed’s address. Seven twenty-two by Tom’s watch. His ...
( Category: Murder July 24,2020 )
On Reading by Proust Marcel
epub |eng | 2011-07-23 | Author:Proust, Marcel

Makeshift Memory I have here translated The Bible of Amiens, by John Ruskin, but this does not seem to be enough for the reader, in my view. To read only ...
( Category: General Books & Reading July 24,2020 )
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I by Marcel Proust
epub |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

It was not only in those tea-parties, on account of which I had formerly had the sorrow of seeing Gilberte leave me and go home earlier than usual, that I ...
( Category: Surrealism July 24,2020 )
Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
epub |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Marcel Proust

Scented with clover and artemisia Gripping their quick, narrow streams The country of the Aisne and of the Oise. ‘Look at the house in Zeeland, pink and shiny as a ...
( Category: Essays July 24,2020 )
Korean Slang: As Much as a Rat's Tail: Learn Korean Language and Culture through Slang, Invective and Euphemism by Peter Liptak & Siwoo Lee
epub |eng | 2016-12-16 | Author:Peter Liptak & Siwoo Lee [Liptak, Peter]

( Category: Humor July 24,2020 )
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed
epub |eng | 2015-09-03 | Author:Barbara Creed [Creed, Barbara]

THE MOTHER’S MUZZLE There is another incident which also supports the above interpretation. One of the most puzzling pieces of information in the Hans jigsaw is his constant reference to ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies July 23,2020 )
Alex Delaware - 12 - Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman
mobi |eng | 2002-10-01 | Author:Jonathan Kellerman

Heavy traffic and bad tempers on the freeway ride back to the city. As I sat in a jam just north of the Sunset exit, I thought of the luck ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )
Alex Delaware - 27 - Victims by Jonathan Kellerman
mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Kellerman

CHAPTER 24 Nice-guy Marlon Quigg had lied to his wife. There had been no plans to close Ventura State back when he worked there. I knew that because I’d been ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )
Alex Delaware - 29 - Killer by Jonathan Kellerman
mobi |eng | 2014-02-01 | Author:Jonathan Kellerman

Milo answered his desk phone. “Your pal Effo has an unassailable alibi for the time frame of Connie’s demise: partying with homeboys and homegirls at a known gang house in ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )
Alex Delaware - 10 - The Web by Jonathan Kellerman
mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Kellerman

“What’s so urgent?” he said, flicking the lights on in the bungalow. The newspaper clippings were gone from his desk. So were all his other papers; the wood surface gleamed. ...
( Category: Murder July 22,2020 )

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