Criticism & Theory
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Matthew Battles
SWIFT TOO WAS “GIVEN TO PROSE.” In his prescient imagination, however, the figure of the universal library rose prematurely into view; before Swift could satirize it, he had to invent ...
( Category:
General
March 6,2016 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Terry Eagleton
CHAPTER 4 Interpretation One of the things we mean by calling a piece of writing ‘literary’ is that it is not tied to a specific context. It is true that ...
( Category:
General
March 2,2016 )
epub | | 2015-01-12 | Author:David Der-wei Wang
The action and costuming of the roles in Chinese drama indicate that they are not figures of reality. Objectively speaking, they can be likened to puppets, to ghosts; subjectively, they ...
( Category:
Poetry
March 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Louis Althusser
C. Countenancing the Contentf It would seem that we have worked our way to the end of the critical undertaking by which the post-Hegelian mind attempted to dispel the vague ...
( Category:
Communism & Socialism
March 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Umberto Eco
Since we began by speaking of China, let us see what Kircher, insatiable in his lunatic curiosity, did with China. Egyptian was an original language, certainly more perfect than Hebrew ...
( Category:
European
February 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]
4.2 Files and Directories Let us try therefore to compare our cognitive processes, from the first perceptions to the constitution of any knowledge, not necessarily scientific, to the organization of ...
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Ancient & Classical
February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco
1983 Culture as Show Business The years 1979 and 1980 were a time when, as some ripened novelties were already being theorized, the first puzzled questions were beginning to be ...
( Category:
Essays
February 22,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]
Even without checking this against the original Greek, the spirit of this analysis is clear. Pseudo-Longinus is performing textual semiotics. And he is performing an act of criticism—at least according ...
( Category:
Essays
February 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Ferber
N Nature “Nature” in Greek (physis) and Latin (natura) at first meant the nature of something, as in Lucretius’ title “On the Nature of Things,” but it came to stand ...
( Category:
European
February 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:John A. Williams
Monday, October 3, 1938 Last Friday at The Nest I found Moritz in a closet playing “Deutschland Über Alles.” I was surprised at how sweet it sounded on the violin; ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-02-25 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]
In the Penal Colony ‘It is a strange piece of equipment,’ said the officer to the travelling researcher, and with a certain air of admiration he surveyed the equipment with ...
( Category:
German
February 15,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Margaret Forster [Forster, Margaret]
Chapter Fifteen SEPTEMBER TIDE RAN in London until the beginning of August 1949, giving Daphne ample opportunity to get to know Gertie better and to become as infatuated with her ...
( Category:
Authors
February 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-08 | Author:Horkheimer, Max [Horkheimer, Max]
*F. H. Bradley, Appearance and Reality, Oxford, 1930, p. 103. *John Dewey and others, Creative Intelligence, New York, 1917, p. 59. †The Philosophy of John Dewy, edited by Paul Arthur ...
( Category:
Holocaust
February 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:THEODOR W. ADORNO
Mid-September 1958 Rest of the day: I had been invited by the headmaster of my high school, which is now called the Freiherr vom Stein-Schule, to contribute something to a ...
( Category:
Psychiatry
February 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Martin Meisel
In the same manner as for the observant traveller, the strange wildness of nature is so attractive in physical nature—thus, and for the same reason, every soul capable of enthusiasm ...
( Category:
European
February 12,2016 )
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