Regional & Cultural
epub |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Martin Meisel

In the same manner as for the observant traveller, the strange wildness of nature is so attractive in physical nature—thus, and for the same reason, every soul capable of enthusiasm ...
( Category: European February 12,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Walter Benjamin [Benjamin, Walter]

[Ms. 1282 verso] “Drink water by the light of the moons imagine, it would be champagnackwine” (old, still recited) He has some tinfoil in his hand, on one side it ...
( Category: European February 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Brian T. Edwards

4 COMING OUT IN CASABLANCA Shrek, Sex, and the Teen Pic in Contemporary Morocco Screening of Leïla Kilani film ʿAla hafa/Sur la planche [On the edge] at the 7ème Art ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 4,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Janet Todd [Todd, Janet]

Literally or figuratively? The earnestness of Mansfield Park is buttressed by a new sense of significance in its episodes, Austen's experimental use of symbolism less to structure the book than ...
( Category: European January 24,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maurice Blanchot, Charlotte Mandell

Your eye, as blind as a stone. Flower—a blind man’s word. Songs: voice of gazes, in the choir, You are, there where your eye is, you are up high, are ...
( Category: European January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:G. Douglas Atkins

There is, of course, no hint of the blood of martyrs, of saints, around the Elizabethan bonfire in “East Coker.” And yet that land, too, somehow feels almost holy because ...
( Category: General January 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-10 | Author:Ilit Ferber [Ferber, Ilit]

Creation and Loss: “On Language as Such” Benjamin’s interpretation of Genesis is neither an endeavor to turn the biblical story into an object of inquiry nor an attempt to subject ...
( Category: European January 11,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Xiaomei Chen

ACT 2 (It is the afternoon of the same day. In the parlor, YANG CAIYU is slumped over the table in tears. KUANG FU paces back and forth aimlessly, his ...
( Category: Asian January 11,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Renfrew, Alastair [Renfrew, Alastair]

In ‘Discourse in the Novel’, what has earlier been described in terms of ‘dual directionality’ – discourse that ‘includes within itself as a necessary moment an orientation towards the discourse ...
( Category: Russian January 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-06 | Author:Bate, Jonathan [Bate, Jonathan]

In a poem called Three Movements’, published in 1932, W. B. Yeats identified the expanding horizons of the Shakespearean moment, the self-expression of the Romantic revolution, and the trauma of ...
( Category: European January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-05 | Author:Knight, Sabina [Knight, Sabina]

Though Selections of Literature excluded “little talk,” by the early Song dynasty the genre had developed to the point that the emperor commissioned a compendium of roughly seven thousand such ...
( Category: Asian January 10,2016 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:David Sterritt

5. “The Death of Mrs. D,” a mixed-media collage by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. Named for a character in Nova Express, the third novel in Burroughs’s ambitious Nova ...
( Category: United States January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-02-20 | Author:Greer, Germaine [Greer, Germaine]

12. Scenes from a droll, showing an assemblage of Shakespearian characters, 1662. Again, it is an unassuming remark of Wittgenstein’s which shows a way into Shakespeare’s conceptual world: ‘Shakespeare displays ...
( Category: European January 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:Hainsworth, Peter & Robey, David [Robey, David]

8. Elio Vittorini (right) with Alberto Moravia in the 1950s Like Vittorini, the narrator and protagonist is a Sicilian, Silvestro, living and working in the north, who recounts a journey ...
( Category: Medieval January 6,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Andrew Cole [Cole, Andrew]

6 On Dialectical Interpretation I dwell in Possibility— EMILY DICKINSON Getting Hegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Leopold von Ranke to agree on something would be a marvelous occasion. But in ...
( Category: European January 5,2016 )