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One Hundred Years of Homosexuality by Halperin David M M
mobi |eng | 2013-02-10 | Author:Halperin, David M M [Halperin, David M M]

[In the case of friendships based on pleasure and utility,] the friendships are most enduring when they [the two friends] get the same thing—e.g. pleasure— from each other, and, moreover, ...
( Category: LGBT March 31,2016 )
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather
epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

2 The Miser In February Bishop Latour once more set out on horseback over the Santa Fé trail, this time with Rome as his objective. He was absent for nearly ...
( Category: Classics March 28,2016 )
Esprit de Corps by Lawrence Durrell
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence Durrell

7 Drage’s Divine Discontent “Did I ever tell you about the time when Drage, the Embassy butler, began to suffer from visions? No? Well, it was dashed awkward for all ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2016 )
Angela Carter by Shaking a Leg
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Shaking a Leg [Leg, Shaking a]

For I have a providential acquaintance with men who bear the name of animals. “For I bless God to Mr Lion Mr Cock Mr Cat Mr Talbot [turbot?] Mr Hart ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 19,2016 )
Readings by Hélène Cixous
epub |eng | | Author:Hélène Cixous

1982-83 Notes 1. Heinrich von Kleist, Werke und Briefe (Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau Verlag, 1978), 483-84. 2. Heinrich von Kleist, "On the Marionette Theater," trans. Christian-Albrecht Gollub, in German Romantic ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 14,2016 )
The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
epub |eng | 2002-03-13 | Author:Paul Auster

13 * * * My first novel was inspired by a wrong number. I was alone in my apartment in Brooklyn one afternoon, sitting at my desk and trying to ...
( Category: Anthologies March 14,2016 )
Deceived With Kindness by Angelica Garnett
epub |eng | | Author:Angelica Garnett

7 At Home in Sussex Meanwhile life at Charleston continued, bathed it seemed in the glow of a perpetual summer. The household fell into two halves: on the one hand ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 14,2016 )
Eustace Chisholm and the Works by James Purdy
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:James Purdy

IN A SECOND-CLASS hotel on La Salle Street, Amos allowed Reuben any and every liberty and intimacy. Indeed Reuben was surprised at the boy’s sexual inexperience, for though Masterson himself ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 14,2016 )
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
mobi |eng | 2008-03-15 | Author:John Updike

Fraser returns in his endnotes to worry at the issues: “Should Britain have stayed, and pacified the country, assuming the white man's burden? There are those who think so…. Of ...
( Category: Essays March 14,2016 )
The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag [Sontag, Susan]

5 Another storm. After leaving Naples in October, plodding nervily across the Mediterranean, past the ships of warring nations, through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the ocean, up the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 8,2016 )
Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

Under the Sign of Saturn In most of the portrait photographs he is looking down, his right hand to his face. The earliest one I know shows him in 1927—he ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

5 Central to modern expectations, and modern ethical feeling, is the conviction that war is an aberration, if an unstoppable one. That peace is the norm, if an unattainable one. ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 8,2016 )
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Susan Sontag

3 Because of countless metaphoric flourishes that have made cancer synonymous with evil, having cancer has been experienced by many as shameful, therefore something to conceal, and also unjust, a ...
( Category: Pathology March 8,2016 )
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
epub |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Susan Sontag [Sontag, Susan]

Godard “It may be true that one has to choose between ethics and aesthetics, but it is no less true that whichever one chooses, one will always find the other ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Susan Sontag

PRESENCE/ABSENCE. Dance, most present, incarnate of arts, is used by Childs in the service of an aesthetic of absence. This principle was first acknowledged in a Dadaist way, in the ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )

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