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Dislocating Race & Nation by Robert S. Levine
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Robert S. Levine

However much Crafts might wish to attribute the “reeking” filth to the degradation forced upon enslaved blacks by whites, she seems to discern in the cabin something essentially repulsive about ...
( Category: United States June 29,2020 )
Buckskin & Broadcloth by Sheila M.F. Johnston
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila M.F. Johnston

In this poem Pauline lampoons her wildly successful poem “The Song My Paddle Sings.” HIS MAJESTY, THE WEST WIND Once in a fit of mental aberration I wrote some stanzas ...
( Category: Canadian June 29,2020 )
The Great War and Modern Memory by Fussell Paul;
epub |eng | 1975-06-14 | Author:Fussell, Paul;

SURVIVALS Nobody alive during the war, whether a combatant or not, ever got over its special diction and system of metaphor, its whole jargon of techniques and tactics and strategy. ...
( Category: European June 28,2020 )
Memory and Complicity by debarati sanyal
epub |eng | 2018-09-07 | Author:debarati sanyal

( Category: European June 28,2020 )
The English Novel in History 1700-1780 by Richetti John;
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Richetti, John; [JOHN RICHETTI]

In reality, Blifil had taken some Pains to prevail with the Parson, and to prevent the Discovery at that Time; for which he had many Reasons. He knew that the ...
( Category: European June 28,2020 )
Shakespeare and Co by Stanley Wells
epub |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Stanley Wells [Wells, Stanley]

Heartlessly, the ballad was sung repeatedly under Anne Elsdon's window. At the time of the trial the play dramatizing the terrible happenings for which Audley and Tindall were prosecuted had ...
( Category: European June 28,2020 )
Deep Water by Thomas Ruys Smith
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Thomas Ruys Smith

“Oh, Ain’t I Gone, Gone, Gone, Way Down de Ribber Road” Minstrelsy’s fixation with the Mississippi River hardly went away after the Civil War. Continuing stage adaptations of Uncle Tom’s ...
( Category: United States June 28,2020 )
Staging Personhood by Guojun Wang
epub |eng | | Author:Guojun Wang

Opening the book, a reader first encounters the page showing the title of the drama, the time of printing, and the owner of the woodblock plates (figure 4.1). As the ...
( Category: Drama June 28,2020 )
Gilgamesh by Michael Schmidt
epub |eng | 2019-07-18 | Author:Michael Schmidt

For such is the destiny [of mortal men,] that the one who is alive.…. . Andrew George particularly notes the way in which here Shiduri uses the stative or passive ...
( Category: Middle Eastern June 27,2020 )
Weird but Normal by Mia Mercado
epub |eng | 2020-03-20 | Author:Mia Mercado

I’m a Guy’s Girl Oh, I didn’t see you there—I was too busy watching sports and shotgunning beers. I’m a pretty typical tomboy. Also, I’m pretty. It’s confusing, I know. ...
( Category: United States June 27,2020 )
'I can't Breathe' The Cities Cry Echoing George Floyd's Final Words by HENRY KADESHA
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:HENRY, KADESHA [HENRY, KADESHA]

Chapter 7 Blacks Are Important Over the past few years we have seen various pictures in the media of law enforcement shootings and in most cases they result in the ...
( Category: United States June 27,2020 )
The Kashf al-Mahjub (The Revelation of the Veiled) of Ali b. 'Uthman al-Jullãbi Hujwiri. An early Persian Treatise on Sufism by Nicholson Reynold A
epub | | | Author:Nicholson, Reynold A.

8. THE KHARRÁZÍS. They are the followers of Abú Sa‘íd Kharráz, who wrote brilliant works on Ṣúfiism and attained a high degree in detachment from the world. He was the ...
( Category: Middle Eastern June 27,2020 )
Wisdom as a Way of Life by Steven Collins
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Collins

Foucault’s phrase “Buddhist or Far Eastern spiritual techniques” is now, in the circumstances of a globalized world and increased knowledge of it, rather quaint, and either annoying or charming depending ...
( Category: Asian June 24,2020 )
The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium by Christopher Vaccaro
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Christopher Vaccaro [Vaccaro, Christopher]

Notes 1. Adapted from the conference paper “Blasphemy and the Creation of the Orcs” given at the 4th Annual Tolkien Conference at UVM, April 13–15, 2007. 2. Though published and ...
( Category: European June 23,2020 )
Au Revoir, Tristesse by Viv Groskop
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Viv Groskop

7. True happiness may involve quite a lot of hypocrisy: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Or: Beware people who dump you by leaving a note in a basket of apricots) ...
( Category: Humor June 23,2020 )

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