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The Topological Imagination by Angus Fletcher
epub |eng | 2016-04-03 | Author:Angus Fletcher [Fletcher, Angus]

Incisive Terms When it comes to the language of incisive distinctions and divisions our lexicon is almost too rich. “Cut” is what William Empson called a “complex word.” We speak ...
( Category: Topology March 25,2020 )
Derrida: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Glendinning
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Simon Glendinning

Language is necessary in order for speech to be intelligible and to produce all its effects; but the latter is necessary in order for language to be established; historically, the ...
( Category: Philosophers March 24,2020 )
The Classical Tradition by Gilbert Highet
epub |eng | | Author:Gilbert Highet

§4. ENGLAND ‘We are all Greeks.’ SHELLEY1 The lands of Greece and Rome and their civilization were only one of the many excitements under which the English revolutionary writers produced ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 24,2020 )
ABC by Ivan Illich
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Ivan Illich [Ivan Illich]

Chaucer, in The Canterbury Tales (1386), is the first English author who recognizes the emerging literate mindset of his courtly audience. Defoe, in the Journal of the Plague Year (1772), ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 24,2020 )
Acquainted with the Night by Christopher Dewdney
epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Christopher Dewdney

A few weeks later, on a late November afternoon, I went back to meet with Dr. Hanly, the head of the sleep laboratory, to review my charts. A receptionist pointed ...
( Category: Poetry March 24,2020 )
System of Objects, The by Jean Baudrillard
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jean Baudrillard

I Models and Series The Pre-Industrial Object and the Industrial Model The status of the modern object is dominated by the MODEL /SERIES distinction. To some extent, things were ever ...
( Category: Individual Philosophers March 23,2020 )
The Metamorphoses (Epic Story) by Apuleius
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Apuleius

THE SIXTH BOOK THE TWENTY-THIRD CHAPTER How Apuleius carried away the Gentlewoman, and how they were taken againe by the theeves, and what a kind of death was invented for ...
( Category: Medieval March 23,2020 )
THE COMMON READER (The 1925 Edition) by Virginia Woolf
epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

II LAETITIA PILKINGTON Let us bother the librarian once again. Let us ask him to reach down, dust, and hand over to us that little brown book over there, the ...
( Category: European March 23,2020 )
Milton's Grand Style by Christopher Ricks
epub |eng | 2014-08-21 | Author:Christopher Ricks

(1) ‘No Middle Flight’, Huntington Library Quarterly (1951–2), xv. 162. (1) ‘Syntax and Music in P.L.’, The Living Milton, p. 83. (1) Articulate Energy, p. 67. (1) 1. 77; 11. ...
( Category: Poetry March 23,2020 )
America the Philosophical by Carlin Romano
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Carlin Romano [Romano, Carlin]

Philadelphia-born philosopher Alain Locke (1886–1954) came to be designated the Renaissance’s chief ideologist. (He preferred the word “midwife.”) His groundbreaking anthology, The New Negro (1925), articulated how African American art ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 23,2020 )
Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Keith Douglas [Douglas, Keith]

I wondered how this specious treatment of awkward situations would satisfy his constituents after the war, and if he would be able to satisfy them with a couple of stock ...
( Category: World War II March 23,2020 )
The life of an amorous man by Ihara Saikaku 1642-1693
epub |jpn | 1964-03-14 | Author:Ihara, Saikaku, 1642-1693

JJg was no reason indeed why Zenkichi should object to such favored treatment. ^ Yonosuke, looking on silently, felt chagrined by the ^ fact that even second-rate courtesans had failed ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 23,2020 )
CliffsNotes on Dante's Divine Comedy by Nikki Moustaki
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Nikki Moustaki

Canto XVI Summary The poets near a waterfall at the edge of the third round of Circle VII, and they can hear the rumbling of its water falling into the ...
( Category: Medieval March 23,2020 )
Ancient Egyptian Literature by Lichtheim Miriam Lopriano Antonio
epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Lichtheim, Miriam, Lopriano, Antonio

NOTES 1. The terms “horizon” and horizon-dwellers” were studied by Kuentz in BIFAO, 17 (1920), 121-190, where he assembled evidence to show that “lightland,” referred to the remote eastern regions ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 23,2020 )
Berrymans Shakespeare by John Berryman
epub |eng | 2001-05-15 | Author:John Berryman [Berryman, John]

COMMENTARY MY FIRST MAIN PURPOSE in commentary will be to elucidate the text, which is likely to differ a good deal in the end from the received texts and will ...
( Category: European March 23,2020 )

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