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C. S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers
epub |eng | | Author:Doris T. Myers

Abolishing the Controllers: The First Three Chronicles It cannot be overemphasized that the didacticism of the Chronicles consists in the education of moral and aesthetic feelings rather than the cognitive ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
Where Children Run by Karen Emilson
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Karen Emilson [Emilson, Karen]

NOT MUCH OF A FATHER Within a few days, everybody in the district had heard about the stolen wood. The twins were branded as thieves and they and their stepfather ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 2,2020 )
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self by Jen Gish
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Jen, Gish [Jen, Gish]

In his essay “Why I Write,” George Orwell confidently gave “four great motives for writing” that he feels exist in every writer. The first of these is sheer egotism—to “be ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

Chapter 11 THE FAMOUS MR JOSEPH ADDISON1 THE gentlemen ushers had a table at Kensington, and the Guard a very splendid dinner daily at St James’s, at either of which ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
Loving Literature: A Cultural History by Deidre Shauna Lynch
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Deidre Shauna Lynch [Lynch, Deidre Shauna]

VOLUMINOUSNESS: ON GOING STEADY WITH NOVELS It is no surprise, either, that the novel is central to the discussion of “Voluminous Authors” and the particularly “intimate . . . familiarity” ...
( Category: History of Books March 2,2020 )
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick
epub |eng | 2002-10-11 | Author:Vivian Gornick [Gornick, Vivian]

Written only twenty years later in the century, Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth strikes an altogether different note on the register of “becoming,” one in which the writer describes a ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris
epub |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Alexandra Harris [Harris, Alexandra]

Nineteen-thirties culture pastorally reconvened the lost personalities of the village. In Bernard Leach we find the artist as potter, in Hennell the artist as carpenter. In T. S. Eliot we ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 2,2020 )
Sebald's Vision by Carol Jacobs
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Carol Jacobs [Jacobs, Carol]

FIGURE 5.1 Time piece in three parts. Copyright © W. G. Sebald. Reprinted by permission of the Wylie Agency, LLC Austerlitz 99). Perhaps this is what the single photograph from ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
The Genius of Language by Wendy Lesser
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Wendy Lesser [Lesser, Wendy]

ITALIAN Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald In early 1959, while we were living in a small seaside town along the Ligurian coast, Italian television made a documentary of us. ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
Scotch Verdict by Lillian Faderman
epub |eng | 2013-01-07 | Author:Lillian Faderman

LORD JUSTICE-CLERK HOPE’S NOTES ON THE TESTIMONY OF MISS JANE CUMMING, MARCH 28, 1811 When I see invention at work in one quarter, I must be prepared to suspect it ...
( Category: Drama March 2,2020 )
In Pursuit of the Great Peace by Zhao Lu;
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:Zhao Lu;

Conclusion In this book, I have traced the people and texts in the Han dynasty that scholars often label as “Confucian,” “Daoist,” “Old Script,” “New Script,” and so forth, and ...
( Category: Asian March 2,2020 )
The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives by Erin James
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Erin James

5 National Myths and Ontological Boundaries in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy Early in Ben Okri’s Booker Prize–winning novel The Famished Road (1991), a poor African mother tells her ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 2,2020 )
On Native Grounds by Alfred Kazin
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alfred Kazin

No one can understand the theatre who sees it too intently from within; no one can serve it who does not, as it is today, hold it a little cheap.... ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
Conversations, Volume 2 by Jorge Luis Borges
mobi |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

BORGES. That’s the problem with heaven . . . no, but perhaps there’s a meagre population in heaven, no? Since many are called but few are chosen. Here I remember ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 1,2020 )
Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers 1660-1886 by Humphrey Jennings
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-04 | Author:Humphrey Jennings [Jennings, Humphrey]

174 OPENING OF THE RAILWAY September 15, 1830 The Northumbrian was appointed to take the lead of the procession, drawing a splendid carriage, appropriated to the reception of the Duke ...
( Category: European March 1,2020 )

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