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The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet by A. D. Cousins & Peter Howarth
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:A. D. Cousins & Peter Howarth

The speaker’s oxymoronic image of the young man as his ‘master-mistress’ (2) implies however that the youth does not seamlessly integrate male with female. It implies that in him the ...
( Category: European July 5,2020 )
The Poetry of Derek Mahon by Hugh Haughton
epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Hugh Haughton

9 Mahon’s most sustained engagement with Camusian exile occurs in the final poems of the two collections, ‘The Globe in North Carolina’ and ‘Death and the Sun’. Both are reprinted ...
( Category: European July 5,2020 )
Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond by Barbara N. Nagel;
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara N. Nagel;

Semantic Field: Systematic Beating (Hauptmann) The next analysis contains yet another technique of literary unaccountability: Gerhart Hauptmann’s Flagman Thiel is the exemplary German text on the topic of domestic violence. ...
( Category: Feminist July 5,2020 )
The Stones of Venice III by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

§ XXVII. Only observe, in this matter, that a greater degree of realization is often allowed, for the sake of color, than would be right without it. For there is ...
( Category: European July 5,2020 )
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase by Christopher Fynsk
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Christopher Fynsk

In Phrase XX, we will encounter a comparable, but more severe, juxtaposition of flight and infirmity with an anxious but uncompromising demand for answers. In this last segment, the deterioration ...
( Category: European July 5,2020 )
Wrap It In A Bit Of Cheese Like You're Tricking The Dog by Thorne David
epub |eng | 2016-12-03 | Author:Thorne, David [Thorne, David]

I waited for a moment to see if Cathy would leap up again, then made my way to the podium. “Okay, firstly, my condolences to Simon’s family. For his loss ...
( Category: United States July 5,2020 )
Studies in Words by C. S. Lewis
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:C. S. Lewis

8 CONSCIENCE AND CONSCIOUS I. PRELIMINARIES Greek oida and Latin scio mean ‘I know’. The Greek verb can be compounded with the prefix sun or xun (sunoida), the Latin with ...
( Category: European July 4,2020 )
The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism by Heschel Susannah Ryad Umar
epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Heschel, Susannah,Ryad, Umar

46 The complete version of Ahmad’s speech was translated to Arabic from English and published on January 1907 in al-Manar: Muhammad Rashid Rida, “Khutbat al-duktur Zia’ al-Din Ahmad,” al-Manar 9 ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 4,2020 )
Getting Personal by Philip Lopate
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Philip Lopate [PHILLIP LOPATE]

7 “The weather is charming, the little birds sing, we all live in this world in harmony—what more could we have! [Accepting a glass of tea] Thank you, from the ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

Eventually, armoires came to look more like modern bookshelves, shedding their cupboard doors, but thievery and misshelving led to the collateral invention of another deterrent: book chains. The books were ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
Proust Among the Stars: How to Read Him; Why Read Him? by Malcolm Bowie
epub |eng | 2016-06-05 | Author:Malcolm Bowie [Bowie, Malcolm]

‘If this is your first appearance at Mme Verdurin’s, Monsieur,’ Brichot said to me, anxious to show off his talents before a newcomer, ‘you will find that there is no ...
( Category: European July 4,2020 )
The Best Times by John Dos Passos
epub |eng | | Author:John Dos Passos

Next morning I was awakened long before dawn. The stars crackled in the cold. The camp was a struggling confusion of drivers holding their camels’ necks to the ground while ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
The Portable Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

V SOLITUDE This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
Palace of Books by Roger Grenier Alice Kaplan & Alice Kaplan
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Roger Grenier, Alice Kaplan & Alice Kaplan [Grenier, Roger]

Reading Reading, as much if not even more than writing, is an act that belongs to private life. Alone with a book. Perhaps we’ll recognize ourselves in the pages someone ...
( Category: European July 4,2020 )
Transgressive Fiction by R. Mookerjee
epub |eng | | Author:R. Mookerjee

“Not yet. I need to meet her, Ballard.” “As part of your project? I doubt she’ll be able to help you.” Vaughn sauntered around the room on his uneven legs. ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )

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