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Difference & Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
epub, pdf |eng | 1995-04-15 | Author:Gilles Deleuze [Deleuze, Gilles]

The apprentice, on the other hand, raises each faculty to the level of its transcendent exercise. With regard to sensibility, he attempts to give birth to that second power which ...
( Category: Modern March 8,2020 )
THE TRUTH OF MASKS by Oscar Wilde
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Oscar Wilde [Wilde, Oscar]

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined ...
( Category: Shakespeare March 8,2020 )
The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov by James N. Loehlin
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-06 | Author:James N. Loehlin

“My Life” “My Life” was the only other story Chekhov wrote in 1896, and it shares with “The House with the Mezzanine” a concern about how to live, as well ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 7,2020 )
Dandyism by Gutkin Len;
epub |eng | | Author:Gutkin, Len;

Nightwood and Decadent Style Barnes’s career and its reception can therefore tell us something general about modernism’s ambivalence toward decadence and aestheticism. The story begins with her 1915 volume of ...
( Category: United States March 7,2020 )
The Literature of Terror by David Punter
epub |eng | | Author:David Punter

This is reminiscent of the poor manners of the average Gothic villain, and indeed the phrase ‘supernatural barbarity’ well summarises the treatment which Caleb fears, and in part receives, at ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 7,2020 )
Cold War Modernists by Barnhisel Greg
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Barnhisel, Greg

Master, mammoth mumbler, tell me why The bales of your left-over novels buy Less than a bandage for your gouty foot.113 (Interestingly, Lowell enclosed this poem in a letter he ...
( Category: History & Theory March 7,2020 )
The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian
epub |eng | | Author:Arrian

* * * CHAPTER XII. Callisthenes Refuses to Prostrate Himself. By making these and other remarks of a similar kind, Callisthenes greatly annoyed Alexander, but spoke the exact sentiments of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 7,2020 )
The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology by Robin Hard
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robin Hard

Notes 1 Apollod. 3.1.1; Agenor’s wife as Argiope, Pher. F21, Hyg. Fab. 6. 2 Schol. Il. 12.92 citing Hesiod (= fr. 171) and Bacchylides (= fr. 105). 3 Moschus 2, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 7,2020 )
Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
epub |eng | | Author:Vivian Gornick

* * * At the funeral a crowd of people spoke: students, colleagues, lovers; readers, fans, swimming companions; friends of childhood and the friends of maturity. No two stories were ...
( Category: Essays March 7,2020 )
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

VI The evening party with which “War and Peace” begins is one of the most triumphant examples in fiction of the difficult art of “situating” the chief actors in the ...
( Category: Victorian March 7,2020 )
Allegory and Ideology by Fredric Jameson
epub |eng | | Author:Fredric Jameson

Figure 5.1 Source: Reprinted with permission from Financial Policy Magazine, March 2, 2016 One could then very easily go on—I have only included a few hints—and turn this into a ...
( Category: Politics March 7,2020 )
Reading Machiavelli by John P. McCormick
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:John P. McCormick

5 Leo Strauss’s Machiavelli and the Querelle between the Few and the Many THIS CHAPTER EXAMINES Leo Strauss’s engagement with the democratic elements of Niccolò Machiavelli’s political thought; specifically, Machiavelli’s ...
( Category: Renaissance March 7,2020 )
Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism by Hennessey Oliver;
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Hennessey, Oliver;

A Diet of Shakespearean History Though he was probably unaware of it, Yeats had a connection with a figure he would probably have placed at a highly objective phase in ...
( Category: European March 7,2020 )
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez;
epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Caroline Criado Perez;

CHAPTER 11 Yentl Syndrome In the 1983 film Yentl, Barbra Streisand plays a young Jewish woman in Poland who pretends to be a man in order to receive an education. ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 7,2020 )
On Cussing by Katherine Dunn
epub |eng | 2019-01-27 | Author:Katherine Dunn

Gwendolen [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. The N-Gram graph indicates the ...
( Category: United States March 7,2020 )

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