Movements & Periods
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy
VI. A quick arrested expression in her two sapphirine eyes, accompanied by a little, a very little, blush which loitered long, was all the outward disturbance that the sight of ...
( Category:
Movements & Periods
January 8,2016 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:David Sterritt
5. “The Death of Mrs. D,” a mixed-media collage by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. Named for a character in Nova Express, the third novel in Burroughs’s ambitious Nova ...
( Category:
United States
January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Robert Eaglestone [Eaglestone, Robert]
Conclusion In this chapter, I’ve tried to explore emblematic versions of the new ways in which contemporary fiction engages with the past. Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith clearly and cunningly admits its ...
( Category:
General
January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Nick Groom
Chapter 8 The descent into hell Whether the poetic laurels (or perhaps ivy) should go to Walpole or to Leland for instigating the Gothic fiction, the effect was electric. The ...
( Category:
Gothic & Romantic
January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Hainsworth, Peter & Robey, David [Robey, David]
8. Elio Vittorini (right) with Alberto Moravia in the 1950s Like Vittorini, the narrator and protagonist is a Sicilian, Silvestro, living and working in the north, who recounts a journey ...
( Category:
Medieval
January 6,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Andrew Cole [Cole, Andrew]
6 On Dialectical Interpretation I dwell in Possibility— EMILY DICKINSON Getting Hegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Leopold von Ranke to agree on something would be a marvelous occasion. But in ...
( Category:
European
January 5,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-25 | Author:Labanyi, Jo [Labanyi, Jo]
11. Drawing by Lorca, Self-Portrait in New York (Antorretrato en Nueva York) Censorship and literary anachronism During the Franco dictatorship (1939–75), censorship and travel restrictions isolated Spain, particularly in the ...
( Category:
European
January 3,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Ferber, Michael [Ferber, Michael]
In France, Alfred de Musset indulges in a similar nostalgia: ‘O Greece! … / / I am a citizen of your ancient ages; / My soul with the bee strays ...
( Category:
Gothic & Romantic
January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Liu Hsieh [Hsieh, Liu]
XIX. Edict and Script (Chao Ts’e) Translator’s note: From the text of this chapter, it seems obvious that no one of the terms used to stand for different types of ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Julius Green
SCENE THREE Saunders’ Folly Witness for the Prosecution is Agatha Christie’s undisputed theatrical masterpiece. This accomplished three-act courtroom drama with its classic ‘quadruple twist’ ending sets the benchmark for the ...
( Category:
Drama
January 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Shirane, Haruo
FIGURE 21 DOLL’S FESTIVAL AND IKEBANA This “portrait of a beautiful person” (biiinga) in Chōbunsai Eishi’s series “Elegant Five Sacred Festivals” (Fūryū gosekku, ca. 1794–1795) exemplifies the ways in which ...
( Category:
Asian
December 28,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Robert Pogue Harrison [Harrison, Robert Pogue]
I have commented at length on the Gettysburg Address in my book The Dominion of the Dead and elsewhere, hence I will not reiterate here what I asserted in those ...
( Category:
Social Philosophy
December 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-14 | Author:Catherine Belsey
6. The goddess of love is subject to desire. Venus Blindfolding Cupid shows the goddess of love punishing her son for shooting his arrows apparently at random. Ironically, her action ...
( Category:
Structuralism
December 21,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-03-14 | Author:Christopher Butler [Butler, Christopher]
Indeed, it is typical of many postmodernist commentators (such as Andreas Huyssen) that they see the ‘true’ function of the avant-garde as being critical in the postmodernist sense – it ...
( Category:
Humanism
December 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-09 | Author:Allan, William [Allan, William]
Chapter 5 Historiography In this chapter we will look at how the Greeks and Romans conceived and wrote about their past. As we’ll see, since investigation of the past is ...
( Category:
Ancient & Classical
December 19,2015 )
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