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Deviance in Neo-Victorian Culture by Saverio Tomaiuolo
epub |eng | | Author:Saverio Tomaiuolo

Whereas the Brixton, Paris and Tottenham riots did not have a definite mastermind, Edginton and Fabbri decided to ‘resuscitate’ Holmes’s traditional enemy Moriarty, who leads an army of zombies. The ...
( Category: Modern July 1,2020 )
Viral Modernism by Elizabeth Outka;
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Outka;

A PARTICULAR FORM OF VIOLENCE I’ve focused on the way “The Second Coming” evokes a viral-like threat and suggests a body experiencing an illness-based violence. Before turning to the way ...
( Category: Modern July 1,2020 )
Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change by Roman Bartosch
epub |eng | | Author:Roman Bartosch

However, the seemingly head-on engagement with politics is surprising only if one overlooks that the voice uttering the opinions is an increasingly disembodied one, a nonperson. While in 1992, Coetzee ...
( Category: Modern June 30,2020 )
Socialist Cosmopolitanism by Nicolai Volland;
epub |eng | | Author:Nicolai Volland;

6 MAPPING THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF LITERATURE In the early 1950s, China underwent a revolution of its conceptualization of the world and the PRC’s place therein that was no ...
( Category: Modern June 30,2020 )
Modernist Time Ecology by Jesse Matz
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Jesse Matz

7 Naipaul’s Changing Times He was the “scourge of the Third World,” but then in the late 1980s some critics began to speak of V. S. Naipaul in terms of ...
( Category: United States June 30,2020 )
The Black Middle Ages by Matthew X. Vernon
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Matthew X. Vernon

One could go as far to read the discrepancy between the sophistication of the frame narrative and the simplicity of the folk tale as a hopeful assessment of the social ...
( Category: United States June 30,2020 )
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 )

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