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The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning by Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning
epub |eng | 2017-08-05 | Author:Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning [Browning, Robert, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett]

R.B. to E.B.B. Friday Morning. [Post-mark, July 25, 1845.] You would let me now, I dare say, call myself grateful to you—yet such is my jealousy in these matters—so do ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic February 23,2020 )
The Typewriter Is Holy by Bill Morgan
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Bill Morgan

Chapter 14 The Threads Loosen A few days after Herb Caen’s 1958 invention of beatnikery, Neal Cassady was arrested in San Francisco for giving a small amount of marijuana to ...
( Category: Beat Generation February 23,2020 )
Tastes of Honey by Selina Todd
epub |eng | | Author:Selina Todd

9 Happy Ever After On 4 March 1964 Shelagh gave birth to Charlotte Jo Delaney in a private nursing home. Journalists were waiting when she returned to the fourth-floor flat ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 23,2020 )
Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal by Geoff Klock
epub |eng | | Author:Geoff Klock

Conclusion In the introduction to this book I quoted Walter Pater, who said that all art aspires to the condition of music—to a state of abstraction free of content. This ...
( Category: Modern February 22,2020 )
Compound Cinematics by Shinobu Hashimoto
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Shinobu Hashimoto [Hashimoto, Shinobu]

Mr. Kurosawa had a philosophy about scenarios. “You cannot rest even for a day.” According to him, the work of writing a script was like running a full marathon. You ...
( Category: Surrealism February 22,2020 )
The Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock
epub |eng | | Author:Maureen Murdock

The Grain Goddess I experienced the inconsolable grief of Demeter when my daughter, Heather, left for college. Without her I felt dead. I not only felt the loss of joy ...
( Category: Feminist February 22,2020 )
Petronius by Prag Jonathan R. W.; Repath Ian D.;
epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Prag, Jonathan R. W.; Repath, Ian D.;

Further Reading For the detailed arguments concerning the dating of the Satyrica, see the Introduction to this volume. Of the recent scholarship on Petronius, I would like to flag Connors ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 21,2020 )
Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 by Natasha Stagg
epub |eng | 2019-09-13 | Author:Natasha Stagg [Stagg, Natasha]

We talked about how modeling jobs often asked Ally to shave her body hair, but she refused. Miley Cyrus had just started growing out her armpit hair then. “I had ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 21,2020 )
All she was worth by Miyabe Miyuki 1960-;Birnbaum Alfred & Birnbaum Alfred
epub |eng | 1999-02-20 | Author:Miyabe, Miyuki, 1960-;Birnbaum, Alfred & Birnbaum, Alfred

Mrs. Miyata laughed. "I did?" Tamotsu Honda. Honma took down the name and the address of his family's auto repair shop and got up to leave. "One more thing." "What's ...
( Category: Crime February 21,2020 )
F*ck Your Diet by Chloé Hilliard
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:Chloé Hilliard

Compliment, Compliment, Compliment Coming from a world where verbal compliments were taken with a grain of salt—strong black women don’t need confirmation about what they already know to be true, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic February 20,2020 )
Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature by Nanelle R. Barash & Nanelle R. Barash
epub |eng | | Author:Nanelle R. Barash & Nanelle R. Barash [Barash, Nanelle R.]

7 THE CINDERELLA SYNDROME Regarding the Struggles of Stepchildren These days, more Americans have seen the musical Les Miz than have read Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables. In both versions, ...
( Category: United States February 20,2020 )
A Short History of English Renaissance Drama by Helen Hackett
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Helen Hackett [Hackett, Helen]

COURT MASQUES From the moment of James I’s accession in March 1603 Jonson devoted himself to seeking his favour, busily composing pageants, entertainments, and poems of praise for the new ...
( Category: Renaissance February 20,2020 )
Republic of Dreams by Ross Wetzsteon
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Ross Wetzsteon

When writing about nature and beauty Vincent often stressed the tension between ecstatic epiphany and inescapable impermanence. Nearly everything she wrote dealt with the transience of bliss and the disappearance ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 20,2020 )
Joan Miró by Joan Miró
epub |eng | 2017-02-19 | Author:Joan Miró [Miró, Joan]

( Category: Surrealism February 20,2020 )
Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief by Tomko Michael
epub |eng | 2015-02-18 | Author:Tomko, Michael

CHAPTER THREE The willing resumption of disbelief This inquiry into the “willing suspension of disbelief” as a persistent critical category began with justified ambivalence over literature’s capacity for psychagogia, or ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 19,2020 )

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