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The Typographic Imagination by Nathan Shockey
epub |eng | | Author:Nathan Shockey

SCRIPT CONTESTED AND REFORMED Debates over kana orthography reached a pitch following the convening of a second Temporary Committee on National Language (Rinji Kokugo Chōsakai) in 1921, which revived the ...
( Category: Asian March 10,2020 )
Shifting Gears by Cecelia Tichi
epub |eng | 2017-03-08 | Author:Cecelia Tichi

CODA: HERBERT HOOVER Henry Adams’s new American was waiting in the wings, even if history has not been kind to him. The name Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) may call to mind ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
GEOGRAPHY & PLAYS (Collection of Stories, Poems and Plays) by Gertrude Stein
epub |eng | 2017-04-22 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

A Portrait of F. B. Table of Contents A peal is that mountain which makes a ring and is ringing. There is no squeak, there is no touch there is ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
Useless Joyce by Conley Tim;
epub |eng | | Author:Conley, Tim;

Although the terms of this intriguing definition, which links the dramatic with self-performance before others, do not change between texts, its presentation and in effect its full meaning does, for ...
( Category: Modern March 9,2020 )
Chekhov's Letters by Apollonio Carol Lapushin Radislav & Radislav Lapushin
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Apollonio, Carol,Lapushin, Radislav & Radislav Lapushin [Apollonio, Carol & Lapushin, Radislav]

Individual Dramatic Elements in the Letters “The Characters” The letters from the 1880s and 1890s, as we have noted, feature memorable statements concerning literary and social life and offer a ...
( Category: Russian March 8,2020 )
The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Part II Chapter I The Dream of Pride Lukerya has just announced that she can’t go on living here and that she is going away as soon as her lady ...
( Category: Russian March 8,2020 )
JAMES BALDWIN'S LATER FICTION by SCOTT LYNN O
epub |eng | | Author:SCOTT, LYNN O.

If Beale Street Could Talk responds to key elements of the Moynihan Report and the ensuing controversy. First, it repeats the fundamental assumption that the family is the defining social ...
( Category: United States March 8,2020 )
Dandyism by Gutkin Len;
epub |eng | | Author:Gutkin, Len;

Nightwood and Decadent Style Barnes’s career and its reception can therefore tell us something general about modernism’s ambivalence toward decadence and aestheticism. The story begins with her 1915 volume of ...
( Category: United States March 7,2020 )
Cold War Modernists by Barnhisel Greg
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Barnhisel, Greg

Master, mammoth mumbler, tell me why The bales of your left-over novels buy Less than a bandage for your gouty foot.113 (Interestingly, Lowell enclosed this poem in a letter he ...
( Category: History & Theory March 7,2020 )
Myself and the World by Hamblin Robert W.;
epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Hamblin, Robert W.;

Faulkner’s starting record for Warner Bros. Studios, 1942. In desperation, both financially and emotionally, he sought to return to Hollywood, on whatever terms could be arranged. William Herndon, a young ...
( Category: Authors March 7,2020 )
Yeats, Shakespeare, and Irish Cultural Nationalism by Hennessey Oliver;
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Hennessey, Oliver;

A Diet of Shakespearean History Though he was probably unaware of it, Yeats had a connection with a figure he would probably have placed at a highly objective phase in ...
( Category: European March 7,2020 )
On Cussing by Katherine Dunn
epub |eng | 2019-01-27 | Author:Katherine Dunn

Gwendolen [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different. The N-Gram graph indicates the ...
( Category: United States March 7,2020 )
The Yellow Peril by Christopher Frayling
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Frayling

CHAPTER FIVE ‘The Yellow Peril Incarnate in One Man’ The Mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu started life in October 1912 as a series of interconnected short stories, many of which were ...
( Category: European March 7,2020 )
Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase by Brett Josef Grubisic & Gisèle M. Baxter & Tara Lee
epub |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Brett Josef Grubisic & Gisèle M. Baxter, & Tara Lee

Notes 1 “Las mujeres como tú van a cambiar este país” (89). Translations are mine unless otherwise noted. 2 Carlos Fuentes refers in this quotation to “America” the continent. Latin ...
( Category: Canadian March 6,2020 )
Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
epub |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

Not costly vain, but plentifully Good. To bid the Cellar’s Fountain never fail, Of sparkling Cyder, or of well-brew’d Ale; To buy, to pay, to blame, or to approve, Within, ...
( Category: United States March 6,2020 )

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