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Serendipities by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Umberto Eco

Since we began by speaking of China, let us see what Kircher, insatiable in his lunatic curiosity, did with China. Egyptian was an original language, certainly more perfect than Hebrew ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

4.2 Files and Directories Let us try therefore to compare our cognitive processes, from the first perceptions to the constitution of any knowledge, not necessarily scientific, to the organization of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 22,2016 )
On Literature by Umberto Eco
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Even without checking this against the original Greek, the spirit of this analysis is clear. Pseudo-Longinus is performing textual semiotics. And he is performing an act of criticism—at least according ...
( Category: Essays February 22,2016 )
A Dictionary of Literary Symbols by Michael Ferber
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Ferber

N Nature “Nature” in Greek (physis) and Latin (natura) at first meant the nature of something, as in Lucretius’ title “On the Nature of Things,” but it came to stand ...
( Category: European February 21,2016 )
Daphne Du Maurier by Margaret Forster
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Margaret Forster [Forster, Margaret]

Chapter Fifteen SEPTEMBER TIDE RAN in London until the beginning of August 1949, giving Daphne ample opportunity to get to know Gertie better and to become as infatuated with her ...
( Category: Authors February 14,2016 )
3. All That Remains (1992) by Patricia Cornwell
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Patricia Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia]

Their murders were meticulously calculated, methodically planned. Bruce Phillips and Judy Roberts disappeared in June. Their bodies were found in mid-August, when hunting season opened. Jim Freeman and Bonnie Smyth ...
( Category: Curricula February 11,2016 )
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Walter Benjamin [Benjamin, Walter]

Chapter X The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before one’s own ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 10,2016 )
Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination by Mojca Küplen
epub |eng | | Author:Mojca Küplen

The main idea that these passages suggest is that judgments of taste depend on an a priori principle and that this principle is the necessary presupposition of the purposiveness of ...
( Category: Medieval January 30,2016 )
A Companion to Greek Literature by Hose Martin; Schenker David; & David Schenker
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Hose, Martin; Schenker, David; & David Schenker

8. The Elasticity of the Greek Novel After this brief survey we are in a better position to ask whether the love novel as represented by the “big five” should ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 25,2016 )
The Limits of Critique by Rita Felski
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 )
Narrative: The Basics by Thomas Bronwen
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Thomas, Bronwen [Bronwen Thomas]

Intertextuality The notion of intertextuality has been particularly influential in the analysis of postmodern narratives, where parody and pastiche often feature prominently, and where the idea of fixed and stable ...
( Category: Authorship January 21,2016 )
Lessons of the Masters by George Steiner
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 )
THE DIVINE INVASION by Philip K. Dick
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick Philip]

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers January 18,2016 )
Mikhail Bakhtin by Renfrew Alastair
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 )
Thinking of Others by Cohen Ted
epub |eng | | Author:Cohen, Ted

1 From the poem “Poetry.” 2 (New York: Random House, 1997), p. 106. 3 Jacket blurb for Straight Man. 4 Thomas Mann, The Story of a Novel: The Genesis of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 11,2016 )

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