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The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society by Andrews Walter G. & Kalpakli Mehmet
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-12-22 | Author:Andrews, Walter G. & Kalpakli, Mehmet [Andrews, Walter G.]

She [‘Ayişe] worked at every genre of poetry and tested her talent on each of them. She has gazels and mu‘amma [enigmas], kasides [panegyrics] and mesnevis [rhyming couplets]. She has ...
( Category: Middle Eastern May 27,2019 )
Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Thornbury Emily V
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Thornbury, Emily V. [Thornbury, Emily V.]

Home renovations: Christ and Satan ‘Liber II’ in Junius XI seems something of an afterthought. The first 212 pages, containing Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel, were written by one scribe in ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
Why Homer Matters: A History by Nicolson Adam
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Nicolson, Adam [Nicolson, Adam]

A first-century BC gold coin or “stater” of the Celtic Parisii tribe, near Paris. Some clues to this world of the horse can be found at a timber town, not ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-05-13 | Author:Homer

So he spoke, and Idomeneus lashed the fine-maned horses back to the hollow ships, for fear had seized his heart.625 Nor did great-hearted Aias and Menelaös fail to see that ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean by Cunliffe Barry;
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Cunliffe, Barry;

7.18 A marble stele commemorating Diodotus Tryphon found in the Greek city of Tanis at the mouth of the Don in the kingdom of Bosporus. He is dressed in scale ...
( Category: Historical Events May 15,2019 )
Something in the Blood by David J. Skal
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:David J. Skal

One half-expected to see witches flying past the chimneypots and people being burned at the stake in Trafalgar Square. People became beasts. Everything that had been progressive and modern in ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural May 10,2019 )
Heroes by Stephen Fry
epub |eng | 2018-09-26 | Author:Stephen Fry

THE JOURNEY HOME By the time the last pieces of Absyrtus had been dropped into the water at careful intervals, Aeëtes’ ship was far behind, out of sight below the ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology May 6,2019 )
Possessed by Memory by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Harold Bloom

This morbid little splendor has a grisly charm and admits us to a curious kind of comedy. Here is a personal favorite, “Song of the Stygian Naiades”: PROSERPINE may pull ...
( Category: Poetry May 6,2019 )
The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays (Applause Books) by William Goldman
epub |eng | 2008-07-29 | Author:William Goldman [Goldman, William]

-NOVEMBER 2 8, 1994 ANYTHING BUT GUMP Among Hollywood machers, it may be the most reviled best-loved movie ever But come Oscar time, who’ll have the chops to cut down ...
( Category: Drama May 1,2019 )
Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Harold Bloom

This morbid little splendor has a grisly charm and admits us to a curious kind of comedy. Here is a personal favorite, “Song of the Stygian Naiades”: PROSERPINE may pull ...
( Category: Poetry April 20,2019 )
How Harry Cast His Spell by John Granger
epub |eng | 2009-12-30 | Author:John Granger

12 DANGEROUS BOOKS AND EDIFYING BOOKS Spiritual keys to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Rowling remarked at the release of Goblet of Fire that it and Chamber of ...
( Category: Children's Literature April 14,2019 )
Macbeth by Harold Bloom
epub |eng | | Author:Harold Bloom

CHAPTER 7 What, Will the Line Stretch Out to th’ Crack of Doom The subsequent scene of the Witches and Hecate seems to me Shakespeare’s, though there is an ongoing ...
( Category: Drama April 14,2019 )
L.E.L. by Lucasta Miller
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Lucasta Miller [Miller, Lucasta]

The teenage Brontë sisters, painted by their brother Branwell, c. 1834. As outsider readers, they admired both L.E.L. and Fraser’s Magazine, but could not get all its gossipy references. A ...
( Category: Poetry April 5,2019 )
Marxist Literary Criticism Today by Barbara Foley;
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Foley;

Symptomatic Reading This recognition that many texts send out mixed ideological signals to their readers brings us to a consideration of the role played by ideological contradiction and symptomatic reading ...
( Category: Politics March 25,2019 )
Splatter Capital by Steven Mark;
epub |eng | 2016-12-29 | Author:Steven, Mark;

Third Intermission Global Ferox I don’t properly remember when or where I first heard about Italian horror. Maybe an IMDB list on a school library computer screen. But this could ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 23,2019 )

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