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The Modernist Papers by Fredric Jameson
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Fredric Jameson

FOUR 9 Exoticism and Structuralism in Wallace Stevens On the conventional periodizing account, Wallace Stevens’s work, a monumental summa of the modernist languages in formation in the 1920s and 1930s ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2020 )
Borges and Black Mirror by David Laraway
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Laraway

In short, as Dahlmann’s own story continues to evolve toward its inexorable, if ambiguous, conclusion, his future seems to have been shaped—perhaps even overdetermined—by the contours of a highly idealized ...
( Category: Modern July 8,2020 )
Louisa May Alcott and the Textual Child by Kristina West
epub |eng | | Author:Kristina West

This notion of sisterhood is one that depends on both patronage and gratitude, an unequal social status that is understood as such by both ‘sisters’: the poor girl must be ...
( Category: United States July 8,2020 )
Mario Vargas Llosa by Raymond Leslie Williams
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Raymond Leslie Williams [Williams, Raymond Leslie]

PART III Rereading Vargas Llosa All of Vargas Llosa’s sixteen novels have to do, to varying degrees, with trauma, loss, and dealing with these and closely related issues as they ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American July 8,2020 )
Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations by Toni Cade Bambara
epub |eng | 2009-08-21 | Author:Toni Cade Bambara [Bambara, Toni Cade]

Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust is a historical marker. It’s suggestive of what will hallmark the next stage of development—a more pronounced diasporic and Afrafemcentric orientation. Another marker occurred ...
( Category: United States July 8,2020 )
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini
epub |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Jay Parini [Parini, Jay]

III. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK consists of fourteen separate essays and sketches, most of which had a separate life before coming together in book form. There is even one ...
( Category: United States July 7,2020 )
Conversations with Ken Kesey by Scott F. Parker
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Scott F. Parker [Parker, Scott F.]

Ken Kesey: The Prince of Pransksters Rick Saunders, Bob Nesbitt, and Vaughn Binzer / 1976 From Marijuana Monthly, Vol. 2 No. 3. © 1976 by Marijuana Monthly. Anyone with the ...
( Category: United States July 7,2020 )
The Wolfpen Notebooks: A Record of Appalachian Life by James Still
epub |eng | | Author:James Still

Mountain Horse Sense “Yellow poplar makes good coffin lumber.” “The balk between the corn rows should be the width of a mule's rump.” “Corn meal that's not dried out proper ...
( Category: United States July 7,2020 )
Courtesans and Opium by Anonymous
epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Anonymous

Male and female they mingle together— It’s partly for worship, partly delight. With clouds up above, the hills vivid green, The moon on the water, ripples of light. Lanterns shining ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 6,2020 )
Alphabet by Inger Christensen
epub |eng | 2013-05-15 | Author:Inger Christensen [Christensen, Inger]

as if the hydrogen at the stars’ cores turned white here on earth your brain can feel white as if someone had pleated up time pushed it in through the ...
( Category: European July 6,2020 )
Simply Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Donna Tussing Orwin [Orwin, Donna Tussing]

“Church and State” (1879) A short essay written early in Tolstoy’s quest for religious certainty and not published until much later already attacks the established Church in sharp, precise, and ...
( Category: Russian July 6,2020 )
Didactic Literature in England 1500-1800 by Pennell Sara; Glaisyer Natasha;
epub |eng | 2016-07-15 | Author:Pennell, Sara; Glaisyer, Natasha;

Plate 6.1 Excerpt from ‘Dialogue X’, in Abel Boyer, The Compleat French Master for Ladies and Gentlemen (10th edn, London, 1729). British Library shelfmark 1607/249, reproduced by permission of the ...
( Category: European July 6,2020 )
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare by Emma Smith
epub |eng | | Author:Emma Smith

Linguistic shifts: 1 Henry IV While it is difficult to make a sustained distinction, other than a formal one, between Shakespeare’s use of prose and of verse, moments which shift ...
( Category: European July 6,2020 )
A Companion to Arthurian Literature by Fulton Helen;
epub |eng | 2011-11-20 | Author:Fulton, Helen;

The Fallible Gawain of Chivalric Romance When the Arthurian legend was elaborated in the twelfth century by Chrétien de Troyes and his followers, a new set of literary and cultural ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 5,2020 )
Pussweek by Bexy McFly
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Bexy McFly [McFly, Bexy]

2 They tell you all their problems (and expect you to care) Humans have a lot of problems. This is nothing new. But has your human ever confided in you ...
( Category: United States July 5,2020 )

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