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The Swedish Theory of Love: Individualism and Social Trust in Modern Sweden by Henrik Berggren & Lars Trägårdh
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Henrik Berggren & Lars Trägårdh [Berggren, Henrik & Trägårdh, Lars]

THE DISCREET CHARM OF SWEDISH TAX POLICY The first major question that Group 222 debated, and that it wanted to put high on the political agenda, concerned family taxation. The ...
( Category: Scandinavian September 20,2022 )
Was Huck Black? by Fishkin Shelley Fisher; & Fisher Fishkin
epub |eng | 2015-03-19 | Author:Fishkin, Shelley Fisher; & Fisher, Fishkin [Shelley & Fisher, Fishkin]

Huck’s speech, unlike Jimmy’s and Jim’s, has none of these features. But even from a phonological standpoint, I would argue, several elements make Jimmy’s dialect closer to Huck’s than to ...
( Category: United States September 20,2022 )
Paul Laurence Dunbar by Gene Andrew Jarrett
epub |eng | 2022-03-28 | Author:Gene Andrew Jarrett [Jarrett, Gene Andrew]

* * * In December, the financial desperation that led Paul to accept a full-time job at the Library of Congress and, in his spare time, to travel and recite ...
( Category: Black & African American September 20,2022 )
An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and Legacy by George Hoare & Nathan Sperber
epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:George Hoare & Nathan Sperber [Hoare, George & Sperber, Nathan]

The historical stages of hegemony The pre-hegemonic State Hegemony is thus for Gramsci a truly multidimensional concept. It serves to denote not just the political leadership of a social group, ...
( Category: Italian September 20,2022 )
Imagined Cities by Alter Robert
epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Alter, Robert. [Alter, Robert.]

6 Woolf Urban Pastoral TO JUDGE BY THE NOVELS we have considered so far, the modern metropolis seems to earn a triple-A rating for angst, alienation, and anomie, with a ...
( Category: European September 20,2022 )
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Finnin Rory
epub |eng | 2022-04-07 | Author:Finnin Rory [Rory, Finnin]

In disputing the absurd literalism of the prosecutors, Dzhemilev echoes Russian writer Andrei Siniavsky but with more irreverence. In 1966 Siniavsky and Yuly Daniel were on trial for “anti-Soviet agitation”; ...
( Category: Eastern September 20,2022 )
Batman Unmasked by Will Brooker;
epub |eng | 2001-09-15 | Author:Will Brooker; [Brooker;, Will]

(iii) Merchandise and spin-offs ‘I dig, Bats-Man, I dig! Yeah! Yeah! YEAH!’ cries the ‘Boy Wonderful’ in Mad’s parody ‘Bats-Man’ of 1966. Bats-Man has just allowed his sidekick to share ...
( Category: United States September 19,2022 )
Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature by Dustin Geeraert;Christopher Crocker;
epub |eng | 2022-08-23 | Author:Dustin Geeraert;Christopher Crocker; [Crocker;, Dustin Geeraert;Christopher]

Kings’ Sagas John McKinnell has directed attention to the dual nature of how the Odinic is expressed, especially noting how the invocation of his name or presence can be made ...
( Category: Scandinavian September 19,2022 )
Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik by Winston James
epub |eng | 2022-07-12 | Author:Winston James [James, Winston]

On Monday the Negroes had three machine guns placed in high-powered automobiles, with hand grenades, and before the riot ended had begun to make bombs. They had plenty of ammunition ...
( Category: Black & African American September 19,2022 )
The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters by Megan Walsh
epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Megan Walsh [Walsh, Megan]

Wolf Totem’s legacy, including its blockbuster movie adaptation, has inadvertently been seen as a call to arms for Han dominance. “Wolf culture” is now ubiquitous, with a slew of lupine-themed ...
( Category: Chinese September 19,2022 )
High Anxiety by Kathleen P. Long
epub |eng | 2016-12-30 | Author:Kathleen P. Long [Long, Kathleen P.]

[116] Mais aussi elle (nature) à par ie ne sçay quel instinct, concedé une tant voluptueuse titillation & libidineuse amorce, lors que par la nomination, ou seule signification, l’esprit est ...
( Category: French September 19,2022 )
From Revolution to Ethics, Second Edition by Julian Bourg;
epub |eng | 2017-09-15 | Author:Julian Bourg; [Bourg;, Julian]

19 Desire Has Its Limits The 1970s French discourse on pedophilia continued to move forward after the 1979 formation of the Groupe de recherche pour une enfance différente but hit ...
( Category: French September 19,2022 )
Imagining Nabokov by Khrushcheva Nina L
epub |eng | 2007-09-15 | Author:Khrushcheva, Nina L. [Khrushcheva, Nina L.]

He . . . was bothered by the undismissable fact that he could not find what system of inclusion and circumscription governed the horizontal recurrence of the pattern; that such ...
( Category: Russian & Soviet September 19,2022 )
The Undivine Comedy by Teodolinda Barolini;
epub |eng | 2021-09-15 | Author:Teodolinda Barolini; [Barolini;, Teodolinda]

Chapter 9 THE HEAVEN OF THE SUN AS A MEDITATION ON NARRATIVE Potest etiam hoc, mendacio tollerando, per distinctionem dissolvi: mitior nanque est in adversarium solutio distinctiva; non enim omnino ...
( Category: Italian September 19,2022 )
Piers Plowman and Its Manuscript Tradition by Sarah Wood;
epub |eng | 2022-08-16 | Author:Sarah Wood; [Wood;, Sarah]

John But, Alexander and the ‘regime of sympathy’ While the material presentation in E suggests various possible points of connection between Piers Plowman and The Wars of Alexander as episodic ...
( Category: German September 19,2022 )

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