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Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman & Neil Gaiman
mobi |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:Neil Gaiman & Neil Gaiman [Gaiman, Neil]

The same goes for a representative selling such a book. At the time of writing Douglas Adams is holed up somewhere, I believe, in the West Country, incommunicado, as they ...
( Category: Modern February 2,2020 )
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath by James McNaughton
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-07-06 | Author:James McNaughton

Heading to the Abattoir Traditionally, interpretations of The Unnamable center on readings limited to how the book troubles language, representation, and subjectivity. The Unnamable, as already said, is written from ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
Writing in Limbo by Simon Gikandi
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Simon Gikandi

The Modern Drama of Independence A decolonized image of self remains an unfulfilled utopian impulse in Selvon’s early texts; what remains at the end of the quest for the modernist ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut by Robyn Creswell
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Robyn Creswell [Creswell, Robyn]

Heretical Origins These questions can helpfully illuminate what is al-Hajj’s most memorable and puzzling qasidat al-nathr, “The Bubble of Origin, or the Heretical Poem” (see the English translation at the ...
( Category: Middle Eastern January 19,2020 )
Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century by Holub Robert C.;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Holub, Robert C.; [Holub, Robert C.;]

The Wagners were disconcerted by Nietzsche’s remarks, fearing that he was ruining his career. At first indirectly, then finally in blunt language, they advised their young acolyte to refrain from ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
The Year of Our Lord 1943 by Jacobs Alan;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Jacobs, Alan;

What lies at the heart of this “affinity”? “Both seek knowledge for the sake of power (in Bacon’s words, as ‘a spouse for fruit,’ not a ‘curtesan for pleasure’), both ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others by Bonnie Costello
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Bonnie Costello [Costello, Bonnie]

Whatever else Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on The Tempest is about—the limits of art, the dualities of power, the need for grace, the Second World War, ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
'and I Quote... ' by Knowles Elizabeth;
epub |eng | 2018-07-14 | Author:Knowles, Elizabeth;

Brookes, in a cartoon ‘RIP Gene Wilder. Springtime for Brexit’ showing Theresa May and her three Brexit ministers marching in Storm Troopers’ uniform, added a speech bubble with the reworked ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
Meaning & Interpretation by G. L. Hagberg
epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:G. L. Hagberg

It is clear that there can be little doubt that the narrator’s characterization of her appearance as “medieval” is justified. He unpacks the term in the context of this description ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
The Story of "Me": Contemporary American Autofiction by Marjorie Worthington
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-01 | Author:Marjorie Worthington

( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
THE CHALLENGE OF BEWILDERMENT by Paul B. Armstrong
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Paul B. Armstrong

* * * 1Joseph Conrad, “The Return, ” in Tales of Unrest (1898; rpt. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1924), p. 130. 2Joseph Conrad, Chance (1913; rpt. Garden City, N.Y.: ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Translating the World: Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800 by Birgit Tautz
epub |eng | 2017-12-07 | Author:Birgit Tautz [Tautz, Birgit]

Into the World: Landscape, Antiquity, Present Visitors enliven the salon’s space, which is otherwise dominated by loud and silent reading. As Brun depicts the salon’s dynamic qualities in narrating Ida’s ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
C. S. Lewis by James Como
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:James Como

That Hideous Strength Lewis seems always to have had some piece of writing in the works. This was true of The Chronicles, his autobiography, a narrative poem, and of Abolition ...
( Category: Modern January 8,2020 )
A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien by David Day
azw3 |eng | 2019-10-16 | Author:David Day [Day, David]

Noldor Elves NORSE MYTHOLOGY The myths and legends of the Norse people found in a rich body of medieval texts, principally such Old Norse poems as the Poetic Edda and ...
( Category: Modern January 2,2020 )
Charles Dickens by Jenny Hartley
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Jenny Hartley

Coming to the city The young man coming to the city to seek his fortune is an old story. Dickens told it himself many times, with its stages of initiation, ...
( Category: Modern January 2,2020 )

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