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The Forgotten Sense: Meditations on Touch by Pablo Maurette
epub |eng | 2018-05-24 | Author:Pablo Maurette

The kiss is the second most intimate form of touch. Like sexual intercourse, it involves the exchange of bodily fluids. The skin of our lips is one of the most ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 19,2020 )
On Empson by Michael Wood
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Michael Wood [Wood, Michael]

IV I’d like to conclude this exploration of other cases by moving to a later moment in Empson’s career and glancing at his remarkable essay on Henry Fielding’s novel Tom ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
How to Live, What to Do by Richardson Joan;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Richardson, Joan; [Richardson, Joan]

9 ORDINARY EVENING O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 19,2020 )
Poetry by Bernard O'Donoghue
epub |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Bernard O'Donoghue

where again the two Latinate polysyllabic terms are made more effective by contrast with the Anglo-Saxon monosyllables in the lines preceding and following. If these instances tempt us to revisit ...
( Category: Renaissance January 19,2020 )
Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After by Margaret Alexiou
epub |eng | 2017-06-05 | Author:Margaret Alexiou [Alexiou, Margaret]

14 LAUGHTER ON DISPLAY: MIMIC PERFORMANCES AND THE DANGER OF LAUGHING IN BYZANTIUM Przemysław Marciniak Humour and performance are inextricably linked together by the performers we conventionally describe as ‘mimes’ ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 19,2020 )
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster by Gerard Passannante
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Gerard Passannante

Going Deep In 1667 Henry Howard presented to the Royal Society a library of books and “neere 100 mss.,” including the “Codex Arundel” of Leonardo da Vinci now held at ...
( Category: Renaissance January 19,2020 )
Translating the World: Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800 by Birgit Tautz
epub |eng | 2017-12-07 | Author:Birgit Tautz [Tautz, Birgit]

Into the World: Landscape, Antiquity, Present Visitors enliven the salon’s space, which is otherwise dominated by loud and silent reading. As Brun depicts the salon’s dynamic qualities in narrating Ida’s ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
In the Air by Anthony Caleshu
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Anthony Caleshu [Caleshu, Anthony]

In Conclusion In these proceedings, I have offered a series of historical coordinates by which we might trace The Outernationale’s complex engagement with not only modernism, but the revolutionary enthusiasms ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 19,2020 )
The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Kyle Keefer
azw3, mobi |eng | 2008-10-24 | Author:Kyle Keefer

Autobiographical details Something dramatic happened to Paul, and this religious encounter becomes the starting point for what he calls “the gospel.” In his letter to the Galatians, Paul gives more ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 19,2020 )
Rumi, The Big Red Book by Coleman Barks
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Coleman Barks [Barks, Coleman]

You and I in a round, unselved idling in the garden-beauty detail. The raucous parrots laugh, and we laugh inside their laughter, the two of us on a bench in ...
( Category: Medieval January 18,2020 )
Victorian Fairy Tales by Michael Newton (ed)
epub |eng | 2014-12-30 | Author:Michael Newton (ed) [Newton, Michael]

‘He began to play, and then all smiles ceased.’ ‘Indeed!’ cried the King. ‘Then I too would fain hear her. But stay with me, and I will send messengers all ...
( Category: Ghosts January 18,2020 )
The First Poets by Schmidt Michael;
epub |eng | 2014-04-06 | Author:Schmidt, Michael; [Schmidt, Michael]

Poor in his youth, Solon travelled to make his fortune, Plutarch says. In his age a person of good family could work for gain without a stigma attaching to him. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 18,2020 )
How Poetry Can Change Your Heart by Andrea Gibson & Megan Falley
epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Andrea Gibson & Megan Falley [Gibson, Andrea & Falley, Megan]

OTHER THINGS YOU READ It makes sense that someone who is writing anything may have a knack for poetic language. Maybe there’s a music writer or even a sportswriter whose ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 18,2020 )
Adepts in Self-Portraiture by Stefan Zweig
epub |eng | 1952-01-14 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

Stendhal owes his supreme position as a psychologist to the fact that he practices the science as an art and not as a profession. Like Nietzsche, he is not only ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 17,2020 )
Essays One by Lydia Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Lydia Davis

* * * 28. Learn at least one foreign language in your life, either on your own (it can be enjoyable) or in a class; read regularly in that foreign ...
( Category: Essays January 17,2020 )

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