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Interpretive Conventions by Steven Mailloux
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Steven Mailloux

CHAPTER FIVE A Typology of Conventions We must notice that the illocutionary act is a conventional act: an act done as conforming to a convention. —J. L. Austin, How to ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies by Lynn Turner & Undine Sellbach & Ron Broglio
epub |eng | 2018-03-23 | Author:Lynn Turner & Undine Sellbach & Ron Broglio [Turner, Lynn & Sellbach, Undine & Broglio, Ron]

Identity, or How (Not) to ‘Overcome the Rulers through Their Own Rules’ The identity approach to animal issues is one that dominates in analytic animal ethics and in animal law. ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived by Roy Morris Jr
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Roy Morris Jr. [Morris, Roy Jr.]

THEIR FIRST VISIT WENT SO WELL THAT GERTRUDE AND ALICE returned to Chicago for a two-week stay on November 24. Once again Bobsy Goodspeed was their hostess, putting them up ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Spook Who Sat by the Door (9780244198718) by Greenlee Sam
epub |eng | 2019-07-03 | Author:Greenlee, Sam [Greenlee, Sam]

12 It had been a harsh winter, with subzero temperatures a regular thing. There would be an occasional respite while the big, soft snow covered the city and for a ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by Geneva Cobb Moore
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Geneva Cobb Moore [Moore, Geneva Cobb]

5 The Phallic Maternal Alice Walker’s Novels of Archetypal Symbolism Mr.___ ast me the other day what it is I love so much bout Shug. He say he love her ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 19,2020 )
Ragged Revolutionaries: The Lumpenproletariat and African American Marxism in Depression-Era Literature by Nathaniel Mills
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Nathaniel Mills

The Practice of Politics: Decatur and the Lumpen-Folk Figure Ellison’s theory of revolutionary political action revises two concepts and figures: the lumpenproletariat and the folk. His memory of black Oklahoma ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Women and Romance by Laurie Langbauer
epub |eng | 2017-12-27 | Author:Laurie Langbauer

The erring woman, alone in her carriage, emphasizes the inherently sexual nature that Dickens’s work accords to woman’s independent motion, but the distinctive suggestion of this tableau is this woman’s ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 19,2020 )
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature by John Whittier Treat
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-04-03 | Author:John Whittier Treat [Treat, John Whittier]

On 1 January 1946, Hirohito publicly renounced his divinity in a statement that said in part, “I am one of the people like you, with the same interests as you, ...
( Category: Asian January 19,2020 )
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll by Casey Rae
epub, pdf |eng | 1959-01-15 | Author:Casey Rae [Rae, Casey]

Bunkers, Punkers, and Junkies Since music is registered with the whole body it can serve as a means of communication between one organism and another. . . . Agent attends ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Maurice Blanchot by Bident Christophe;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Bident, Christophe;

CHAPTER 51 Characters in Thought How Is Friendship Possible? (1958–1971) After the friendships of the 1930s and the exceptional encounters with Emmanuel Levinas and Georges Bataille, Blanchot’s life progressed into ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

The power and uncertainty of these [vampire] stories—no one knew exactly what Europeans did with African blood, but people were convinced that they took it—makes them an especially rich historical ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Writing in Limbo by Simon Gikandi
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Simon Gikandi

The Modern Drama of Independence A decolonized image of self remains an unfulfilled utopian impulse in Selvon’s early texts; what remains at the end of the quest for the modernist ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
Herman Melville: Among the Magazines by Graham Thompson
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Graham Thompson

4 The “Unbounded Treasures” of Magazine Paratexts Reading Melville’s magazine writing as pioneer readers once read it in the 1850s is no longer possible. Contemporary critics cannot recreate, for want ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Senses of Style: Poetry Before Interpretation by Jeff Dolven
epub |eng | 2018-01-12 | Author:Jeff Dolven

§295 Personnage de Bon Esprit Was it in prison that Wyatt began translating the penitential psalms? Or was it after? He did walk out of the Tower again in March ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking by Jens Andersen & Caroline Waight
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Jens Andersen & Caroline Waight [Andersen, Jens & Waight, Caroline]

The Danish Connection The first five years of Astrid Lindgren’s career as an author were an explosion of artistic and commercial success. Three trilogies were launched: Pippi Longstocking, The Children ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )

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