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Palace of Books by Roger Grenier Alice Kaplan & Alice Kaplan
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Roger Grenier, Alice Kaplan & Alice Kaplan [Grenier, Roger]

Reading Reading, as much if not even more than writing, is an act that belongs to private life. Alone with a book. Perhaps we’ll recognize ourselves in the pages someone ...
( Category: European July 4,2020 )
Transgressive Fiction by R. Mookerjee
epub |eng | | Author:R. Mookerjee

“Not yet. I need to meet her, Ballard.” “As part of your project? I doubt she’ll be able to help you.” Vaughn sauntered around the room on his uneven legs. ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism by TORIL MOI
epub |eng | 2006-07-14 | Author:TORIL MOI

That Julian identifies with Dionysus is obvious. He too feels misunderstood and ridiculous. His insistence that Dionysus, not Apollo, is the god of poets and seers serves to underline his ...
( Category: European July 4,2020 )
Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium by Robin Morgan
epub |eng | 2016-12-04 | Author:Robin Morgan [Morgan, Robin]

ROSLYN D. SMITH is an inmate/writer at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Westchester, New York. She is serving two consecutive twenty-five years to life sentences for a ...
( Category: Feminist July 4,2020 )
Contemporary Irish Writing and Environmentalism by Donna L. Potts
epub |eng | | Author:Donna L. Potts

Notes 1.Thomas Forester, trans. Giraldus Cambrensis, The Topography of Ireland (Cambridge, Ontario: Medieval Latin Series, 2000), 83, http://​www.​yorku.​ca/​inpar/​topography_​ireland.​pdf. 2.Ned Kelly (March 28, 2017), National Museum of Ireland , https://​www.​irishcentral.​com/​news/​bog-bodies-are-kings-sacrificed-by-celts-says-expert-129289548-237410131; Miranda ...
( Category: Modern July 4,2020 )
Masks in Horror Cinema by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
epub |eng | | Author:Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Animal Masks and Totemism: Motel Hell (1980) and Bloody Reunion (2006) Pigs have long been rendered symbolically across a range of cultures as objects of disgust and transgression. Islam and ...
( Category: Genre Films July 4,2020 )
The Last Utopians by Robertson Michael;
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 ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 4,2020 )
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds by Warner Marina;
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Warner, Marina;

Fig. 29 A few examples of statues called zemis, which were used to mobilize powers of prophecy, healing, and fertility, survived the iconoclasm of the missionaries (zemi, from Jamaica, izoo—1500). ...
( Category: Medieval July 3,2020 )
Surrealist Ghostliness by Katharine Conley
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-07-14 | Author:Katharine Conley [Conley, Katharine]

32. Dorothea Tanning, Murmurs (1976). © Dorothea Tanning. Private collection. A small mythical creature like the winged creature in Birthday, a visible and embodied psychic “spirit,” hugs the female body ...
( Category: Surrealism July 3,2020 )
Hellenistic Lives by Plutarch
epub |eng | 2015-12-05 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

[9] Then, convinced that the long-anticipated moment had arrived, they ran en masse to the tyrant’s house to set it on fire. The towering flames that arose from the burning ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 3,2020 )
The Violent Effigy- A Study of Dickens' Imagination by John Carey
epub |eng | 1973-12-15 | Author:John Carey [Carey, John]

'an ambling stranger, with one eye screwed up into extinction, and the other framed and glazed*. Zephaniah Scadder, the evil land-agent in Martin Chuzzlewit, has a face which divides exactly ...
( Category: European July 3,2020 )
The Soul of Wit by Chesterton G. K.; Ahlquist Dale;
epub |eng | 2013-07-14 | Author:Chesterton, G. K.; Ahlquist, Dale;

Falstaff Was Real Smaller characters give us the impression that the author has told the whole truth about them, greater characters give the impression that the author has given of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 2,2020 )
Faulkner’s Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities by John N. Duvall
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:John N. Duvall [Duvall, John N.]

5 Paternity in Pylon: “Some Little Sign?” No, my characters, luckily for me, name themselves. I never have to hunt for their names. Suddenly they tell me who they are.…When ...
( Category: Movements & Periods July 2,2020 )
The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Gary Snyder

To return to my own situation: the land my family and I live on in the Sierra Nevada of California is “barely good” from an economic standpoint. With soil amendments, ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays July 2,2020 )
The Rise of Universities by Haskins Charles Homer;
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Haskins, Charles Homer;

* * * 1 E. G. Browne, Arabian Medicine (1921), p. 93. 2 Op. cit., I, 254–255. 3 Sic heredes Gratiani Student fieri decani, Abbates, pontifices. 4 Richer of Reims, ...
( Category: Renaissance July 2,2020 )

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