azw3 |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Jan Alber [Alber, Jan]

4.3. Eternal Temporal Loops Other narratives, such as Beckett’s ([1963] 1990) postmodernist play Play, deconstruct the linearity of time by confronting us with circular temporalities. Such a time line “partially ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Michał Choiński

5 HYPERBOLIC DISSOLUTION Tennessee Williams In his foreword to Carson McCullers’s second novel, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Tennessee Williams discusses the gothic tradition of the American South. He stipulates ...

epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Anonymous

Male and female they mingle together— It’s partly for worship, partly delight. With clouds up above, the hills vivid green, The moon on the water, ripples of light. Lanterns shining ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-20 | Author:Fulton, Helen;

The Fallible Gawain of Chivalric Romance When the Arthurian legend was elaborated in the twelfth century by Chrétien de Troyes and his followers, a new set of literary and cultural ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-24 | Author:Jeffrey Archer [Archer, Jeffrey]

27 EMMA HADN’T ENTERED the Palace of Westminster since their lordships had decided she was free to marry the man she loved. Giles had invited her to join him for ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-14 | Author:Robertson, Michael;

Carpenter’s vision of Urnings as utopian trailblazers was bound up in his evolutionary view of human history. After the turn into the twentieth century, at the same time as he ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Xu Xu

Map of Shanghai from 1932 showing the foreign concessions and larger city area. Numbers refer to locations mentioned in the Introduction and the stories. Detail from Xu Xu’s wartime passport ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Miller [Miller, Elizabeth]

Stoker’s Banana Skins Even the finest authors make mistakes, muddling the plot or being blinded by inconsistencies. Dracula is a fertile hunting ground for this type of endeavor. No disrespect ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-06 | Author:Jonathan Bate [Bate, Jonathan]

EXCURSION The downfall of the French school of poetry has of late been increasing in rapidity; its cold and artificial compositions have given way, like so many fantastic figures of ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-17 | Author:Marie de France [France, Marie de]

X THE LAY OF THE HONEYSUCKLE With a glad heart and right good mind will I tell the Lay that men call Honeysuckle; and that the truth may be known ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Simon Critchley

Romantic poetry is progressive, universal poetry. Its aim isn’t merely to reunite all the separate species of poetry and put poetry in touch with philosophy and rhetoric. It tries to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Colleen Mullaney

1½ ounces cachaça 1½ ounces cherry liqueur ½ ounce lime juice club soda lime and cocktail cherry for garnish In a shaker filled with ice, combine the cachaça, cherry liqueur, ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Émile Zola [Zola, Émile]

epub |eng | 2020-01-21 | Author:Pen Vogler

Butter Buns Put 1⁄4 lb of butter into 2 lbs of flour, a 1⁄4 lb of sugar, a handful of currants, two spoonfuls of good yeast. Set it to rise ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-06 | Author:Marian Keyes [Keyes, Marian]

Reversing Around Corners Some time ago I wrote about how I was learning to drive. I wasn’t very good but I was doing my best, so when Barbara, my driving ...