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Machines for Living by Victoria Rosner
epub |eng | 2020-01-28 | Author:Victoria Rosner [Rosner, Victoria]

The meal is ended, she is bored and tired, Endeavours to engage her in caresses Which still are unreproved, if undesired. Flushed and decided, he assaults at once (ll. 236–9) ...
( Category: Women June 29,2020 )
Duchamp Is My Lawyer by Kenneth Goldsmith
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Kenneth]

Composed over the course of a decade beginning in the mid-1920s, the Ursonate (also known as Sonata in Primeval Sounds or Primitive Sonata) is a classical sonata in four movements, ...
( Category: Modern June 29,2020 )
Digging the Past by Frances E. Dolan
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Frances E. Dolan

Figure 6. Hawthorn from Gerard’s Herbal. Reproduced by permission of the University of California, Davis, Special Collections Library. Like compost, dung, and manure, discussed in Chapter 1, the word “hedge” ...
( Category: Modern June 21,2020 )
The Self-Help Compulsion by Beth Blum
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Beth Blum

LETTING BYGONES BE BYGONES Learning, perhaps, from Yeats’s library failure, and giving the lie to Martin Amis’s view of Ulysses as a “war against cliché,”88 Joyce strategically employs proverbial wisdom ...
( Category: Modern June 12,2020 )
Licentious Fictions by Daniel Poch
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Poch

MIRROR OF MARRIAGE: RADICALIZING THE APORIA Scholars have rarely discussed Tōsei shosei katagi in connection with Imotose kagami, although the latter can be seen as a sequel to the former.31 ...
( Category: Asian June 9,2020 )
Degenerative Realism by Christy Wampole
epub |eng | | Author:Christy Wampole

THE GLOBAL EVENT: BEYOND THE FAIT DIVERS With its long-winded stamina and descriptive fervor, the kind of reportage favored by the New Journalists and New Social Novelists is excellent at ...
( Category: Politics June 7,2020 )
V. S. Naipaul's Journeys by Sanjay Krishnan
epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Sanjay Krishnan

A Bend in the River offers a portrait of the slow and gradual way in which the social institutions of a newly independent nation are undermined and begin to fall ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American June 6,2020 )
Cross of Snow by Nicholas A. Basbanes
epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:Nicholas A. Basbanes [Basbanes, Nicholas A.]

* * * — AMONG THE HUNDREDS of domestic objects preserved in the Craigie House storage compartments are numerous playthings and items of children’s apparel, the most affecting to my ...
( Category: Modern June 3,2020 )
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan by Michael Davies & W. R. Owens
epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Michael Davies & W. R. Owens

as the nimble Fly, that lightly springs, Against the Flame, until she burn her wings; Is taken Captive with that sulphurous flame, With which she only sought to sport and ...
( Category: Modern June 2,2020 )
Inventing Tomorrow by Sarah Cole
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Cole

V. PREHISTORY IN THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY These stories, then, make their mark in figuring the prehistory of humanity in terms of conflict and bodily trial, slow innovation (again violent), ...
( Category: Modern May 2,2020 )
Becoming George Orwell by John Rodden
epub |eng | 2019-11-16 | Author:John Rodden

CHAPTER 9 How and Why Orwell Became “A FAMOUS AUTHOR” Surfing the Tides of Time The Contingencies of Fame The last two chapters have meditated at length on the vicissitudes ...
( Category: Modern April 27,2020 )
Witnessing Torture by Alexandra S. Moore & Elizabeth Swanson
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Alexandra S. Moore & Elizabeth Swanson

39Engstrom, Hernandez, and Gangsei (2008, 17) call this “reframing.” 40Barbara Labovitz Boik and E. Anna Goodwin, Sandplay Therapy : A Step-by-Step Manual for Psychotherapists of Diverse Orientations (New York: W. ...
( Category: Social Policy April 24,2020 )
The Nostalgic Imagination by Collini Stefan;
epub |eng | 2018-09-25 | Author:Collini, Stefan; [Collini, Stefan]

5 The History of ‘the Reading Public’ I The charged topic of ‘the reading public’ appears to be ineliminably historical. Generalizations about this reified entity almost always have assumptions about ...
( Category: Modern April 14,2020 )
Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World by Maier Kevin;
epub |eng | | Author:Maier, Kevin;

Fig. 1. Winslow Homer’s “The Gulf Stream.” Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906. www.metmuseum.org. Although The Old Man and the Sea offers many poignant descriptions ...
( Category: Nature April 12,2020 )
The Suspended Passion by Marguerite Duras
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Marguerite Duras [Duras, Marguerite]

It was as though the word I wrote already contained its image within itself. To film it was to pursue the discourse and amplify it. It was to continue writing—on ...
( Category: Modern April 5,2020 )

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