Criticism & Theory
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Walter Benjamin [Benjamin, Walter]
[Ms. 1282 verso] “Drink water by the light of the moons imagine, it would be champagnackwine” (old, still recited) He has some tinfoil in his hand, on one side it ...
( Category:
European
February 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]
THREE I LEFT HER AT the nearest corner, mumbling some schoolboy excuse, and watched her stolid figure cross the boulevard towards the cafes. I did not know what to do ...
( Category:
Urban
February 7,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-07 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell
PART IV When I went over on Easter Day I heard the chapel–gossips complimenting cousin Holman on her daughter's blooming looks, quite forgetful of their sinister prophecies three months before. ...
( Category:
British & Irish
February 6,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Rita Felski [Felski, Rita]
Works of metafiction (Pale Fire) openly advertise and revel in these gamelike features of interpretation, but all texts can be read along similar lines by being treated as imaginary opponents ...
( Category:
Movements & Periods
January 25,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maurice Blanchot, Charlotte Mandell
Your eye, as blind as a stone. Flower—a blind man’s word. Songs: voice of gazes, in the choir, You are, there where your eye is, you are up high, are ...
( Category:
European
January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-30 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SKETCH-BOOK. In the cloisters of the ancient Benedictine convent of San Domingo, at Silos, in Castile, are the mouldering yet magnificent monuments of the once ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Steiner
France had made of itself a république des instituteurs. Fundamental was the notion of the laïque, of a civic-pedagogic vocation as demanding in the secular sphere as had been that ...
( Category:
Humanism
January 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:G. Douglas Atkins
There is, of course, no hint of the blood of martyrs, of saints, around the Elizabethan bonfire in “East Coker.” And yet that land, too, somehow feels almost holy because ...
( Category:
General
January 11,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Renfrew, Alastair [Renfrew, Alastair]
In ‘Discourse in the Novel’, what has earlier been described in terms of ‘dual directionality’ – discourse that ‘includes within itself as a necessary moment an orientation towards the discourse ...
( Category:
Russian
January 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-06 | Author:Bate, Jonathan [Bate, Jonathan]
In a poem called Three Movements’, published in 1932, W. B. Yeats identified the expanding horizons of the Shakespearean moment, the self-expression of the Romantic revolution, and the trauma of ...
( Category:
European
January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Knight, Sabina [Knight, Sabina]
Though Selections of Literature excluded “little talk,” by the early Song dynasty the genre had developed to the point that the emperor commissioned a compendium of roughly seven thousand such ...
( Category:
Asian
January 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy
VI. A quick arrested expression in her two sapphirine eyes, accompanied by a little, a very little, blush which loitered long, was all the outward disturbance that the sight of ...
( Category:
Movements & Periods
January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy
XXIII. Military Preparations on an Extended Scale Christmas had passed. Dreary winter with dark evenings had given place to more dreary winter with light evenings. Rapid thaws had ended in ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-03 | Author:Sienkiewicz, Henryk [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]
Chapter XXXIV Ok a certain calm night a band of horsemen, about twenty in number, moved along the right bank of the Valadinka in the direction of the Dniester. They ...
( Category:
Historical
January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]
V Father Hector Saint–Cyr was not long in following his messenger. On the day of his arrival in Kebec he stopped at the apothecary shop, but, Auclair being out, he ...
( Category:
Historical
January 8,2016 )
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