Criticism & Theory
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]

THE MOTIVE FOR METAPHOR You like it under the trees in autumn, Because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves And repeats words without ...
( Category: United States June 24,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Ivan Turgenev

TATYANA BORISOVNA AND HER NEPHEW GIVE me your hand, dear reader, and come on an outing. The weather is beautiful. The May sky glows a gentle blue. The smooth young ...
( Category: Ancient June 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-23 | Author:Mendlesohn, Farah

So what conclusions can we draw? More than any other form described here, the intrusion fantasy holds true to the unreasoning delights of fancy eschewing the rules and rigors of ...
( Category: Classics June 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 1997-02-02 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

We can go further: with the help of the names given to the tribes by their mothers in Genesis XXIX and XXX, and of the prophetic blessings or curses bestowed ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

New Winter’s Tales COUNTRY TALE There was a wood path running along the stone fence at the western edge of a wood. Outside the fence the open landscape lay calm ...
( Category: Anthologies June 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Anita Shreve [Shreve, Anita]

24 Lana held her drink up to the two men. “Death is in my sight today.” Q. shifted nervously on the silk toile of the doctor’s couch. The huntress was ...
( Category: Family Life June 20,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Wolfgang Koeppen [Koeppen, Wolfgang]

He sat at the bottom end of the dining-room table in the hostel for travelling priests, bathed in a dirty brown penumbra, because the window opened on to a small ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 6,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Larry McMurtry

-31- “We’re lucky this town had a good-sized tree,” Doc said. He was speaking about Mobetie, Texas, the town with one tree. He and Wyatt had just been concluding a ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Woolf, Virginia

Lighthouse But the voice had stopped. She looked round. She made herself get up. Augustus Carmichael had risen and, holding his table napkin so that it looked like a long ...
( Category: European June 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-25 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

4. What Is a Novelist? To Understand, We Must Compare WHEN HERMANN BROCH WANTED TO BLOCK out a character, he first seized on the character’s essential position and then progressed ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 5,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

C.S.: By that broad a definition, we could even call The Decameron a novel! All of its stories are connected by the same theme of love and told by the ...
( Category: Fiction June 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Mary Wollstonecraft [Wollstonecraft, Mary]

SECTION 5.3. Such paternal solicitude pervades Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters, that I enter on the task of criticism with affectionate respect; but as this little volume has many ...
( Category: History & Theory June 4,2014 )
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, ...
( Category: Fiction June 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:John Irving

WHEN I HAPPENED UPON Aunt Muriel, she greeted me in her usual insincere fashion: “Oh, hi, Billy—how’s everything? I hope all the normal pursuits of a young man your age ...
( Category: Political May 30,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng, eng | 1989-05-31 | Author:Raymond Carver [Carver, Raymond]

I look at the word Love and then I underline it. Then I see the word backyard. Is it one word or two? I DRIVE through farm country, through fields ...
( Category: Short Stories May 28,2014 )