epub |eng | 2017-10-01 | Author:Friedrich Schiller

WALLENSTEIN. What! Think you then at length in late old age To enjoy the fruits of toil? Believe it not. Never, no never, will you see the end Of the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ivan Turgenev

CHAPTER XXVII .................. MEANWHILE THE EVENING HAD COME on, Marya Dmitrievna expressed a desire to return home, and the little girls were with difficulty torn away from the pond, and ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-26 | Author:Jorge Gracia [Gracia, Jorge]

Among the most powerful accounts of the mimetic origins of fiction in Borges is the dream-like mode of creation imagined in "The Circular Ruins." In this text, Borges imagines that ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan]

II Seven years had passed by. I don't think it necessary to relate all that happened to me during that period. I moved restlessly about over Russia, and made my ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ivan Turgenev

* * * THE SONG OF TRIUMPHANT LOVE [MDXLII] .................. DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ‘Wage Du zu irren und zu träumen! ’—SCHILLER This is what I read ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Claire Nettleton

The sea sparks the captive fish’s imagination and nostalgia, evoking an explosion of visual (“eyes,” “blue-green,” “the sky is red and the light’s all pink”), olfactory (“evil-smelling”) and tactile (“warm ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Fredric Jameson

The familiar mechanisms and characteristic rhetoric of Balzacian description are here reappropriated by a less characteristic function, or, to use a term which will be further developed in this chapter, ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:William Thompson

Chapter XI. Battle in the Lava Beds. On Sunday, January 12, 1873, a strong reconnoitering force was sent out under Colonel Perry of the regulars and Captain O. C. Applegate ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-11 | Author:Small, Helen;

6 The Bounded Life Theodor Adorno’s late lectures on Metaphysics propose a ‘shocking thesis’: ‘metaphysics began with Aristotle’.1 A ‘doubly shocking’ thesis, Adorno tells his audience, because it gives credit ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-05 | Author:Henrik Ibsen

epub |eng | 2002-09-19 | Author:Donna Tussing Orwin [Orwin, Donna Tussing]

NOTES 1 The clearest concise definition of what Tolstoy considered the purpose of art is to be found in chapter five of What is Art? (1898) where art is said ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Burrow, Colin, Curtius, Ernst Robert

Ignorance of a text and faulty reading can, then, be the causes of evil deeds. After the battle of Benevento (1266) the bones of the Hohenstaufen Manfred would not have ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-22 | Author:Martijn Icks [Icks, Martijn]

THE ‘EVIL TYRANT’: SELECTED WORKS Elagabalus in Aureli and Cavalli’s Eliogabalo (1667) Francesco Cavalli (1602–76) was one of the greatest opera composers of his time. When the impresario of the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cottini, Luca.;

Chapter Seven * * * Toys, Clothes, Furniture, and the Aesthetic Power of Play In the spring of 1919 the Futurist painter Fortunato Depero opened an art house (Casa d’Arte) ...

epub |eng | | Author:Derek Parker

GIRLS, ST PAUL AND OYSTERS Living in Rome and performing minor church duties, Casanova had no difficulty in reconciling his promiscuity with the teachings of the Church. Like many – ...