Criticism & Theory
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-26 | Author:Birkett, Thomas [Birkett, Thomas]
Conclusion As Halsall points out, ‘much of the effect of any Old English poem containing runes depends upon the distinctive appearance of the rune symbols in contrast to the ordinary ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Skyes, Edgerton & Kendall, Alan & Sykes, Egerton [Skyes, Edgerton]
L God ‘L’ ‘The Old Black God’ of the Mayans, depicted as an old man with toothless gums with one half of his face covered with black paint. He may ...
( Category:
Medieval
June 6,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Mitchell, Bruce & Robinson, Fred C. [Mitchell, Bruce]
To understand the action of the poem, and especially the action in ll. 62–99, one must have some idea of the geography of the battle. (See map on p. 248, ...
( Category:
European
June 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Atwood, Margaret [Atwood, Margaret]
The Toronto Star, August 28, 1935 SOCIETY SCHOOLGIRL FOUND SAFE SPECIAL TO THE STAR Police called off their search yesterday for fifteen-year-old society schoolgirl Laura Chase, missing for over a ...
( Category:
Historical
June 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-14 | Author:Iris Murdoch [Murdoch, Iris]
CHAPTER 13 It was the next morning. The sun was still faithfully shining, but a certain dullness and bleakness in the air at breakfast-time made known the season, and then ...
( Category:
Satire
May 29,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Marder
eating our dust . . . Not by accident, two of the most thought-provoking and relatively recent books on dust—Joseph Amato’s 2000 Dust: A History of the Small & the ...
( Category:
Communication & Media Studies
May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Lichtheim, Miriam; Manning, Joseph G.;
IV. Hymns and Lamentations The hymns translated in Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vols. I and II, came from private funerary monuments—tombs, stelae, and statues—or were preserved on papyrus. By contrast, the ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-12-22 | Author:Andrews, Walter G. & Kalpakli, Mehmet [Andrews, Walter G.]
She [‘Ayişe] worked at every genre of poetry and tested her talent on each of them. She has gazels and mu‘amma [enigmas], kasides [panegyrics] and mesnevis [rhyming couplets]. She has ...
( Category:
Middle Eastern
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Thornbury, Emily V. [Thornbury, Emily V.]
Home renovations: Christ and Satan ‘Liber II’ in Junius XI seems something of an afterthought. The first 212 pages, containing Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, were written by one scribe in ...
( Category:
Medieval
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Nicolson, Adam [Nicolson, Adam]
A first-century BC gold coin or “stater” of the Celtic Parisii tribe, near Paris. Some clues to this world of the horse can be found at a timber town, not ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Herodotus
BOOK SEVEN [1] When news of the battle fought at Marathon reached King Darius, the son of Hystaspes, his exasperation with the Athenians – already considerable because of their attack ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
May 27,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-05-13 | Author:Homer
So he spoke, and Idomeneus lashed the fine-maned horses back to the hollow ships, for fear had seized his heart.625 Nor did great-hearted Aias and Menelaös fail to see that ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-27 | Author:Henri Michaux
from OLD AGE OF POLLAGORAS I would really like to know why I always follow the horse whose bridle I am holding. With age, says Pollagoras, I have become like ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
May 27,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Franz Kafka
[Prague, August 1, 1920] Sunday I still don’t know what you’re going to say to the letter of Saturday evening and I won’t know for a long time; in any ...
( Category:
German
May 21,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-12 | Author:Michael Slater [Slater, Michael]
are not to be done without trouble; and the main trouble necessary to them, is the devising of some pleasant means of telling what is to be told. The indispensable ...
( Category:
Victorian
May 12,2019 )
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