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Experiences in translation by Umberto Eco
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

Translatio The term translatio first appeared in the sense of ‘change,’ even of address, ‘transport,’ banking operation, botanical graft, and metaphor. Only in Seneca does it appear as a turning ...
( Category: European October 19,2019 )
White Flights by Jess Row
epub |eng | 2019-10-18 | Author:Jess Row [Row, Jess]

This is a variation of the same sentiment, even the same vocabulary, embedded in Robin Passafarro’s self-effacing description of her urban gardening project; it’s easy to imagine Franzen writing this ...
( Category: United States October 19,2019 )
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Jonathan Bate

Renaissance Humanist scholars of the 16th century argued that their age was witnessing new light and rebirth after a long period of cultural darkness. The vocabulary associated with this idea ...
( Category: European October 19,2019 )
The Unpolitical by Cacciari Massimo; Carrera Alessandro; Verdicchio Massimo
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Cacciari, Massimo; Carrera, Alessandro; Verdicchio, Massimo

CHAPTER 5 Catastrophes Writing to Antonio Valdés, secretary of Charles V, on August 1, 1528, this is how Erasmus explained, against his detractors, the enterprise of the boundary mark (Termine): ...
( Category: European October 14,2019 )
Persona by Sato Hiroaki Inose Naoki
epub |eng | | Author:Sato, Hiroaki, Inose, Naoki

Self-appointed Japanese Expert On September 5, Mishima left, with Yōko, for another world tour, which would last until October 31. The two traveled to New York, Stockholm, Paris, Hamburg, and ...
( Category: Asian October 11,2019 )
Made under Pressure by Kamovnikova Natalia;
epub |eng | | Author:Kamovnikova, Natalia;

EVGENII WITKOWSKY: I am convinced that interlinear trots are harmful, but not absolutely harmful. Interlinear trots make sense when they go about translating from the language that very few people ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union October 11,2019 )
Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov by Robert Golla (ed)
epub |eng | 2017-04-15 | Author:Robert Golla (ed) [Golla, Robert]

An Interview with Vladimir Nabokov Alfred Appel Jr. / 1967 From Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, 8.2 (1967): 127–153 © 1967 by the Board of Regents of the University of ...
( Category: United States October 8,2019 )
Lyric Tactics by Nelson Ingrid;
epub |eng | 2017-09-29 | Author:Nelson, Ingrid;

“Who made this song now with so good entente?” Antygone answerde anoon and seyde, “Madame, ywys, the goodlieste mayde Of gret estat in al the town of Troye, And let ...
( Category: Renaissance September 30,2019 )
Shakespeare by Paul Edmondson
epub |eng | 2015-05-06 | Author:Paul Edmondson [Edmondson, Paul]

‘SUGARED SONNETS’ Shakespeare’s Sonnets continue to inspire complicated reactions as well. It has too often been assumed that those published in 1609 represent a coherent sequence that tells the story ...
( Category: European September 29,2019 )
Sontag by Benjamin Moser
epub |eng | 2019-08-07 | Author:Benjamin Moser

Chapter 26 The Slave of Seriousness In public, the postcancer Sontag was invulnerable. From the end of the 1970s, she held court alongside other grandees (Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Donald Barthelme) ...
( Category: United States September 27,2019 )
The Gift by W.Lewis Hyde
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:W.Lewis Hyde

* * * — As is the case with any other circulation of gifts, the commerce of art draws each of its participants into a wider self. The creative spirit ...
( Category: United States September 26,2019 )
Tact by Russell David;
epub |eng | 2017-09-22 | Author:Russell, David;

From Essay to Novel It is the task of this book to keep the essay in mind; but by way of conclusion, I will take a closer look at Eliot’s ...
( Category: European September 23,2019 )
Pop Science by James Ball
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:James Ball

WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKENHEARTED? JIMMY RUFFIN Ruffin, J., changed cardiology forever in 1966 with his deep examination of what happened to those who survive coronary episodes. Ruffin also shows ...
( Category: United States September 20,2019 )
F*ck! I'm in My Twenties by Emma Koenig
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Emma Koenig [Koenig, Emma]

PN6231.A26K64 2012 818’.602--dc23 2012006877 ISBN: 978-1-4521-1053-0 Chronicle Books LLC 680 Second Street San Francisco, California 94107 www.chroniclebooks.com
( Category: United States September 20,2019 )
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-06-07 | Author:Mark Twain

( Category: United States September 16,2019 )

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