Criticism & Theory
epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood

The North, the Wilderness, has traditionally been used in Canadian literature as a symbol for the world of the unexplored, the unconscious, the romantic, the mysterious and the magical. There ...
( Category: United States May 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-24 | Author:Hard, Robin; Hard, Robin;

Theseus is acknowledged as heir to the Athenian throne, and sets off for Crete with the tribute Theseus was faced with perils of a more insidious nature on his arrival, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 30,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-12-02 | Author:Gore Vidal [Vidal, Gore]

Jim was soon a friend of the corporal, whose name was Ken Woodrow, from Cleveland, aged twenty-one, in the Army a year and a half. He was a graduate of ...
( Category: Coming of Age April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

CHAPTER VI THE CAMPO SANTO* 104. THE summer’s work of 1844, so far from advancing the design of ‘Modern Painters,’ had thrown me off it—first into fine botany, then into ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Browning

And dash his brute front unabashed against The steep snow-bosses of the shield of God Who soon shall rise in wrath and shake it clear,) 105 Came hither also,—raking up ...
( Category: Love Poems April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Kevin J. Hayes [Hayes, Kevin J.]

Andalusia, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, south elevation, showing hexastyle doric portico. Shortly after returning from Andalusia, Poe was stricken ill and confined to bed for around a month. Consequently, he had ...
( Category: United States April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:T. S. Eliot [Eliot, T. S.]

CHAPTER V A Note on Culture and Politics Politics did not, however, so much engage him as to withhold his thoughts from things of more importance. SAMUEL JOHNSON ON GEORGE ...
( Category: Civilization & Culture April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sim, Stuart;

Television is Old and New: Modern and Postmodern A constructive way to theorize television’s uniqueness in the broadcast/post-broadcast era, which at the same time allows for a discussion of postmodernity, ...
( Category: Postmodernism April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Norman F. Cantor

II THE CONTOURS OF MEDIEVAL GOVERNMENT With rare clarity and skill in comparative analysis of different royal administrations, Haskins and Strayer showed the workings of medieval government. They explored the ...
( Category: Historiography April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-29 | Author:Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Slave quarters at Jefferson Davis’s plantation, circa 1860–1870. Photograph. Library of Congress. Inscribed on the front: “Sent Home by Elizabeth Findley Missionary to the freedmen” and on the back: “Graveyard ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bauman, Zygmunt; Bauman, Lydia;

5 Culture in a uniting Europe The European Union does not undermine the identities of the countries united in it. On the contrary, it is a champion of identity. More, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Mary Beard

In the fourteenth century Dante cast the Roman poet Virgil as his guide in his poem Inferno (or Hell—part of his Divine Comedy). In this painting, Dante and Virgil in ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Bruce Clarke [Clarke, Bruce]

Narrative Time Systemic operations entrain the notion of time. Whereas structures are temporally indeterminate, autopoietic systems take time, they operate in time. Moreover, they make time: as the product of ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray

Austen also provides a few fathers who provide well for their daughters: The Rev. Mr. Morland: The father of Northanger Abbey’s heroine is a sensible father. His daughter, Catherine, has ...
( Category: European April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Phyllis Rose

Seven SMALL WORLDS: THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE LARK I wanted a change from women, and that was not hard to arrange because there were no more books by women on ...
( Category: General April 3,2016 )