Regional & Cultural
epub |eng | 2019-11-10 | Author:Richard J. King

FOSSIL HISTORY OF THE SPERM WHALE After showing off a floor-to-ceiling cast of the fossilized bones of an extinct baleen whale that is about twenty-six million years old, Fordyce (sneezes) ...
( Category: Marine Life February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Michael Lynn Crews [Crews, Michael Lynn]

Dillard, Annie (b. 1945) A holograph reference to the medievalist and novelist Dorothy Dunnett that appears in McCarthy’s notes for Blood Meridian is more likely a reference to a Dunnett ...
( Category: United States February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-30 | Author:Maron, Monika [Maron, Monika]

Hella 1940 Pavel’s letters from these years are not preserved. I presume that he, in his rural exile, longed for some news from the world, for an exchange of thoughts ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Shu, Yuan; Pease, Donald E.;

Notes This chapter previously appeared in Etsuko Taketani’s The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars, published in 2014 by Dartmouth College Press. The ...
( Category: Politics February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-01 | Author:Benjamin, Walter

Teaching Aid PRINCIPLES OF THE WEIGHTY TOME, OR HOW TO WRITE FAT BOOKS I. The whole composition must be permeated with a protracted and wordy exposition of the initial plan. ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Christopher M. Driscoll;Monica R Miller;Anthony B. Pinn;

Notes 1 Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006). 2 Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Mining the Motherlode: Methods in Womanist Ethics (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, ...
( Category: United States February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-14 | Author:R.K. Britton

6 Humour, Irony and Satire in Don Quixote Public Merriment and Private Laughter There is a well-known anecdote that, on hearing one of his courtiers suddenly burst into a peal ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vivi Lachs

Ikh tsebrekh dir a beyn I’ll break your bones hak oys dayne tseyn Smash your teeth makh fun dir a bild in a freym And make you into a framed ...
( Category: Jewish February 27,2020 )
azw |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:E. Michael Jones [Jones, E. Michael]

About the Author E. Michael Jones is the editor of Culture Wars magazine and the author of numerous books and e-books. Endnotes [1] Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, Vol. I, ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 1980-02-26 | Author:Raymond Williams

Caste extends the social reference. An aristocratic officer courts the daughter of an unemployed and drunken workman; she is an actress. This outrages his mother, the Marquise. The girl, left ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pascale Casanova

This strange, contradictory solution draws on Descartes and Leibniz as well as Spinoza. In cases of the most extreme compulsion, Geulincx granted a certain indetermination that is the sole tragic ...
( Category: European February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Neil Rennie

Figure 6.1. ‘Captain Mackra, and the Pirate with a wooden leg’, from The Pirates Own Book (1837). Although based on Irving’s and Cooper’s narratives, the opening of Treasure Island is ...
( Category: European February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Alexander Neubauer [ Neubauer, Alexander]

CLIFTON: I quite agree. LONDON: But still, we have your poem “In Salem”—there’s a lot of anger and that poem is gorgeous. What about anger? CLIFTON: Well, first of all, ...
( Category: United States February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Cathy Park Hong

I turned to the modular essay because I am only capable of “speaking nearby” the Asian American condition, which is so involuted that I can’t stretch myself across it. The ...
( Category: Asian American Studies February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2000-02-25 | Author:Marx, Leo;

“The Lackawanna Valley” by George Inness. “American Landscape” by Charles Sheeler In 1855, the Year that Inness completed his painting, Thomas Buchanan Read, a Connecticut poetaster, published his long poem, ...
( Category: United States February 26,2020 )