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Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being by Amy Fung
epub |eng | 2019-04-30 | Author:Amy Fung

I hear all sides of the housing crisis, and how it relates to foreign investment. I hear it almost always anecdotally. Intergenerational guilt and shame co-mingling with continual invisible entitlement ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 2,2020 )
Being Property Once Myself by Joshua Bennett
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Joshua Bennett

Here, in Susan Byrd’s retelling of an age-old local myth, we hear an echo of Porter’s lament earlier in the novel, his desire to be released from the heaviness of ...
( Category: United States July 2,2020 )
Writers and Their Mothers by Dale Salwak
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Dale Salwak

© The Author(s) 2018 Dale Salwak (ed.)Writers and Their Mothershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68348-5_11 11. ‘Persistent Ghost’ Anthony Thwaite1 (1)London, UK I was an only child. My memories of my mother seem to fall ...
( Category: European July 1,2020 )
A New Companion to Milton by Corns Thomas N.;
epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:Corns, Thomas N.; [Corns, Thomas N.]

Deprivation increases desire by explaining the nature of desire to itself, thus making loneliness theoretically intelligible. It is not the Fall, however, that deprives us of the ideal marital scenario, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 1,2020 )
Selected Poems, 1968-1996 by Joseph Brodsky
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Brodsky

II The month of stalled pendulums. Only a fly in August in a dry carafe’s throat is droning its busy hymn. The numerals on the clock face crisscross like earnest ...
( Category: Russian 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 )
Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature by Gilbert Jane
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Gilbert, Jane

Today's prince is justified while he lives and reigns, but what will happen when he dies? The wholeness and immortality in question are secular, implying not only individual renown but ...
( Category: Medieval July 1,2020 )
Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture by Millicent Weber
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Millicent Weber

For Participant EWF9, the shared experience of the literary festival is distinct from that offered by other live events because of the direct control that audience members have in choosing ...
( Category: European 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 )
The American Adrenaline Narrative by Kristin J. Jacobson
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Kristin J. Jacobson

Nichols suggests a firm separation between the sea and humans. Steven Callahan also stresses nature’s indifference, but he still assigns nature a female gender as he describes her motivations, or ...
( Category: United States June 30,2020 )
Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind by Ping Dong
epub |eng | | Author:Ping Dong

(2)Isolate the enemy, and maintain the strength of forces. Wang Yang-ming paid special attention to the tactics of isolating the enemy, such as cutting off the enemy’s road traffic and ...
( Category: Regional & Cultural June 30,2020 )
The Homoerotics of Orientalism by Joseph A. Boone
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Joseph A. Boone [Boone, Joseph A.]

THE CLOSET, COLONIALISM, AND SEXUAL PREDATION IN MAUGHAM’S “CAIRO” The contradictions of colonialism that subtly infiltrate Gide’s encounters with Egyptian homoeroticism are explored in self-conscious detail in Robin Maugham’s exquisite ...
( Category: Middle Eastern 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 Best Spiritual Writing 2010 by Zaleski Philip
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Zaleski, Philip

The Snow Leopard is a liberating book, in fact, in part because it is not about ordinary goodness. It features some of the most transcendent, crystalline moments in modern prose, ...
( 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 )

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