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JAMES BALDWIN'S LATER FICTION by SCOTT LYNN O
epub |eng | | Author:SCOTT, LYNN O.

If Beale Street Could Talk responds to key elements of the Moynihan Report and the ensuing controversy. First, it repeats the fundamental assumption that the family is the defining social ...
( Category: United States March 8,2020 )
Difference & Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
epub, pdf |eng | 1995-04-15 | Author:Gilles Deleuze [Deleuze, Gilles]

The apprentice, on the other hand, raises each faculty to the level of its transcendent exercise. With regard to sensibility, he attempts to give birth to that second power which ...
( Category: Modern March 8,2020 )
The Persistence of Allegory by Brown Jane K.;
epub |eng | 2007-03-07 | Author:Brown, Jane K.;

The Emergence of Opera and Dance The idea for a play which would be sung rather than spoken arose from discussions among intellectuals at Florence in the late sixteenth century. ...
( Category: Drama March 8,2020 )
The Literature of Terror by David Punter
epub |eng | | Author:David Punter

This is reminiscent of the poor manners of the average Gothic villain, and indeed the phrase ‘supernatural barbarity’ well summarises the treatment which Caleb fears, and in part receives, at ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 7,2020 )
The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology by Robin Hard
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robin Hard

Notes 1 Apollod. 3.1.1; Agenor’s wife as Argiope, Pher. F21, Hyg. Fab. 6. 2 Schol. Il. 12.92 citing Hesiod (= fr. 171) and Bacchylides (= fr. 105). 3 Moschus 2, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 7,2020 )
Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
epub |eng | | Author:Vivian Gornick

* * * At the funeral a crowd of people spoke: students, colleagues, lovers; readers, fans, swimming companions; friends of childhood and the friends of maturity. No two stories were ...
( Category: Essays March 7,2020 )
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

VI The evening party with which “War and Peace” begins is one of the most triumphant examples in fiction of the difficult art of “situating” the chief actors in the ...
( Category: Victorian March 7,2020 )
Foucault For Beginners by Lydia Alix Fillingham
azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-08-20 | Author:Lydia Alix Fillingham [Fillingham, Lydia Alix]

Where was Foucault in all this uproar? In Tunisia actually. From 1954 on, Foucauit had taken a series of teaching jobs away from France – in Sweden, Poland, and Germany. ...
( Category: Philosophers March 7,2020 )
The Two Cultures of English by Maxwell Jason;
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Maxwell, Jason; [Maxwell, Jason]

CHAPTER 4 Toward an Aesthetics without Literature The previous chapter documented Rhetoric and Composition’s antagonistic attitude toward literary studies that, while justified in certain respects, blinded its practitioners from fully ...
( Category: Rhetoric March 7,2020 )
Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism by Hennessey Oliver;
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Hennessey, Oliver;

A Diet of Shakespearean History Though he was probably unaware of it, Yeats had a connection with a figure he would probably have placed at a highly objective phase in ...
( Category: European March 7,2020 )
A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch
epub |eng | 2018-09-14 | Author:Edward Hirsch

( Category: Love Poems March 7,2020 )
Romanticism and Speculative Realism by Chris Washington;Anne C. McCarthy;
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Washington;Anne C. McCarthy;

In Rousseau’s state of nature there is no inequality at the ontological level of being and species, human and animal. Like Meillassoux, who sees the world structured by the irrationality ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 7,2020 )
Rebel Writers by Celia Brayfield
epub |eng | | Author:Celia Brayfield

Men Friends One of the shockingly innovative aspects of A Taste of Honey is that Jo, the 15-year-old protagonist, lives with a gay man, Geof, an art student. The opening ...
( Category: Women March 7,2020 )
Metahistory by Hayden White
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-04 | Author:Hayden White [White, Hayden]

The Fall into Irony In his Souvenirs, written in 1850, Tocqueville looked back upon the history of his country from 1789 to 1830. This history appeared to him, he said, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 6,2020 )
Afro-Fabulations by Tavia Nyong'o
epub |eng | | Author:Tavia Nyong'o

The Queer Fabulist in the Preternatural Wild Why track the spoor of race thinking through the theatrical and cinematic wilds? In part, because wildness has emerged as a motif in ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 6,2020 )

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