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Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries With the Human by Onno Oerlemans
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Onno Oerlemans

One have I marked, the happiest guest In all this covert of the blest: Hail to Thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion, Thou, Linnet! In ...
( Category: Medieval January 19,2020 )
New Critical Thinking: Criticism to Come by Julian Wolfreys
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Julian Wolfreys [Wolfreys, Julian]

TECHNIQUES OF ‘BEING THERE’ One of the most important techniques used in creating an effect of ‘being there’ is rather obvious actually, a story of ‘how I got there’. This ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature by Edward McLean Test
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Edward McLean Test

The birds and their myth became so popular that they soon decorated the cartouches of many maps of the New World, adorned the curiosity cabinets of European aristocracy, became apotheosized ...
( Category: Renaissance January 19,2020 )
On Empson by Michael Wood
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Michael Wood [Wood, Michael]

IV I’d like to conclude this exploration of other cases by moving to a later moment in Empson’s career and glancing at his remarkable essay on Henry Fielding’s novel Tom ...
( Category: European January 19,2020 )
Finding Thoreau: The Meaning of Nature in the Making of an Environmental Icon by Richard W. Judd
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Richard W. Judd

Was Thoreau an Anarchist? The “Now Thoreau,” as the Ohio State Lantern put it, was not always so self-evident. In his American Mind in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Irving Bartlett assured ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Poetry by Bernard O'Donoghue
epub |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Bernard O'Donoghue

where again the two Latinate polysyllabic terms are made more effective by contrast with the Anglo-Saxon monosyllables in the lines preceding and following. If these instances tempt us to revisit ...
( Category: Renaissance January 19,2020 )
Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination by Stamos David N
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Stamos, David N. [Stamos, David N.]

Contextualist History of Science There are different ways of doing history, and they need not converge given the very same topic. One way is history of ideas, which is popular ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 by Edan Lepucki
epub |eng | | Author:Edan Lepucki

I’d forgotten to tell the cleaning girl not to come anymore, so she showed up one final time, standing in the doorway, shifting her weight back and forth. I told ...
( Category: United States January 18,2020 )
One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Brian Doyle

Hoop Photographs are time machines, and other people’s children are time machines (how did that kid get a foot taller and an octave deeper in a month?), and boxes of ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
Acting on Impulse by Georgette Heyer
epub |eng | | Author:Georgette Heyer

THE END READING “ACTING ON IMPULSE” It never ceases to amaze me, the passivity of the Heyerian women in these contemporary tales of hers. Because, sure, our Ursula is presented ...
( Category: European January 17,2020 )
Chicago and the Making of American Modernism by Michelle E Moore
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michelle E Moore [Moore, Michelle E]

The bad business of patronage By late 1924, Hemingway had seen enough of the avant-garde writing business to understand that one couldn’t really go at it well without a patron. ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
The Latin Deli by Judith Ortiz Cofer
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Judith Ortiz Cofer

III Corazón wished she could move everything out of the store that night. She did not think she could stay in this place without Manuel. When Tito, the super, Doña ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
J. R. R. Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter
epub |eng | 1982-01-16 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter [Carpenter, Humphrey]

Lewis and Tolkien continued to see much of each other. Tolkien read aloud to Lewis from The Silmarillion, and Lewis urged him to press on and finish writing it. Tolkien ...
( Category: European January 17,2020 )
The Measure of Our Lives by Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith

“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.” “Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves ...
( Category: United States January 16,2020 )
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories by Michael Cox
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Michael Cox [Cox, Michael]

'Certainly not, dearest,' I said soothingly. 'I wish I could solve the mystery,' he pursued, more excitedly; 'I would make somebody suffer for it! One's peace destroyed, and people terrified, ...
( Category: European January 16,2020 )

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