category: literary collections

Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies

... duality of a fire-bearing soul-principle with a highly specific calendrical structure of festive play and worship. While festive imagery derived from May Day and Shrovetide subtly informs the double dyings of Ophelia and Desdemona, Romeo ...

Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and Fallen Idols

... Gertrude Stein wrote in a fairly obscure poem called “Patriarchal Poetry,” published in 1927, thirteen years after Tender Buttons had brought her the title “The Mama of Dada,” “Patriarchal poetry might be what they wanted.” Although Stein ...

The Vienna Coffeehouse Wits, 1890-1938

... English translation of it under the title Fifteen Rabbits : A Celebration of Life was published by Simon and ... Josefine Mutzenbacher , which was published anonymously but is usually attributed to Salten . From the Wastepaper Basket ...

New Readings of Silvina Ocampo: Beyond Fantasy

... La última niebla, the world yields to the speaker's imaginative advances; whether staring into a fire, walking in the woods, or sitting alone in a parlor, the intensity of her feeling spills over and into objects and characters around ...

Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

... Godfather Death " shows ) ; yet when they are reduced to parts of a formula , the result may seem stale and contrived.1 THE SHORT STORY The teller of a tale relies heavily on the method of summary : terse , general narration as in " ...

Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing Plus Myliteraturelab -- Access Card Package

The Literature Collection eText within MyLiteratureLab includes more than 700 selections and valuable multimedia resources–including professional performances, biographies of key authors, contextual videos, interactive student ...

Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

In the sixth edition, the Charters continue to entice students to join the conversation, with adventurous and intriguing new literary works, more detailed coverage of literary elements, and more help with reading and writing.

The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

... [online] by Ted Chiang Read it! Even people who know much more about sci-fi than me agree this is one of the great ... Good to Great, calling it “actual science.” Dave Bridgeland quickly corrected me and recommended this book, which is vastly ...

The Letters of Cole Porter

... score. They will be twelve-inch records, and everything in the show except ... Kiss Me, Kate for his collection and his sharp rebuttal of Stark's apparent claim that the sheet music for 'Too ... KISS ME, KATE TO OUT OF THIS WORLD, 1949–1950.

Eugene Onegin: Translation By Douglas R. Hofstadter

In time for the bicentennial of Pushkin's birth comes a new translation of his classic novel. Douglas R. Hofstadter is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Godel, Escher, Bach".

Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems

... Marathi literature after 1885 . The first and full expression of this view is seen in the poetry of Keshavsut ( Krishnaji Keshav Damle , 1866-1905 ) . Keshavsut was greatly influenced by the lyrics of the romantic poets contained in ...

Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women's Fiction

... stories in Urdu'. Unlike their a empt to speak in voices other than their ... sex even when she is pregnant, both women wrote against patriar y and ... writing in Urdu. Ismat kept iterating that she could not write like Hijab. When her ...

Homosexuality in Contemporary Indian Literature : Issues and Challenges

... free from that of a man related to her . The women Chugtai portrays , are ... Urdu literary journal , Adab - i - Latif , ' Lihaaf ' led to much ... stories ( and the marvel is , even in some of the translated ones ) she " talks " and the ...

Collected Prefaces: Nicholas Hagger's Prefaces to 55 of His Literary and Universalist Works

... 11 I invoked Shakespeare as the 17th Earl of Oxford , a theme that ... Overlord an American epic — Returning to Overlord ten years after the first volume ... light " -

Marriage in Pride and Prejudice: A Literary Essay

... essay anyway and my teacher asked me to read it to my classmates. I hope I succeeded in winning some fans for my hero ... literary essay. This is dedicated to all the Janeites out there. Abstract Jane Austen never married, yet she shows ...

5 Steps to a 5 AP English Literature 2016

... PSAT Center Center Center Center Center Center Center Center Welcome to McGraw-Hill's Practice Plus, a complete interactive test prep center We've put all of our proven expertise into making sure you're ready for your E BenchPrep ...

O's Little Guide to Finding Your True Purpose

... book, The Martha Beck Collection ... online destination for turning intentions into tangible actions. She is the ... Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the.

Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young Authors on the State of the Art -- and the Art of the Hustle -- in the Age of Information Overload

... Michael Cunningham—who won the 1999 Pulitzer for The Hours—has gone on to ... online booksellers and chain store expansion toppled bricks-and-mortar ... read a single novel or book of poetry in a year. Young gays and lesbians seeking a ...

American Literary Anecdotes

... ( newspaper ) Adams and 2 Bly and 28 Broun and 31 Cobb and 43 Hearst and 102-103 O. Henry and 111 Pulitzer and 191 Scovel ... Of Mice and Men ( book ) 211 Of Thee I Sing ( play ) 131 O'Hara , John 167 Old Black Joe ( song ) 77 Old Brains ...

Diary of a Narcissist

... avoiding it is one of these mechanisms. Their function is to prevent me from getting emotionally involved and, subsequently, hurt. Their application results in an "approach-avoidance repetition complex". The narcissist, fearing and ...

Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition

... Aeneid as a poem which itself deals with the process of re-writing a Latin poem in the Scottish language. The ... duty to bring Troy to Italy. Through translating theAeneid, Douglas discovers that translation is also Virgil's subject – and, ...

Virgil and His Translators

... duty. This can be best exemplified by Fu's translation of Aeneid 1.148–56, the first simile in the epic, on the importance of leadership. Here the charismatic and effective leader, who can calm the crowds, is described as pietate grauem ...

Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Life in Cinema

... movies.' And, Ray, in turn, was fond of Gopalakrishan's films. Ray always ... Malayalam entry. Mere minutes before the movie began, Ray got out of his car ... 2007 Venice International Film Festival, he said, 'Adoor is one of the very ...

Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700D1900

... gastronomie transcendante ( Paris : Gabriel de Gonet , 1848 ) 245 . 73. Duclos ... Larousse Gastronomique ( Paris : Librairie Larousse , 1938 ) , 373 . 82 ... Online , 444 . Kantstipation J.D. Mininger and Jason Michael Peck What do ...

And So Forth

... a golland- sky dom . What else would it be but a dom , a house ? And it's a casa , a rumah , a talo , every language will have a word for the edifice . It's only North Sea eyes , Germanic and Teutonic eyes , which can look and see not just ...

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage

... world, we [human beings] provide the most wonder and genius. Undaunted by ... world but none the match for man—that great wonder crossing the heavy gray sea ... play were co-translated by Hsu. 6 Antigone, unpublished script, 2001. 7 ...

Marionette Plays from Northern China

... world that returns to patriarchal dominance and reabsorbs all the dissident ... Wonder Immortal 许妙仙: a young lady Lady Xu 许夫人: Wonder Immortal's ... script dated to 1852) is considered to be different from the original (Huang 1999 ...

The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives

... free English text online (1787 edition): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id ... book in the original language: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148 ... 1776),xlvi a Scottish philosopher and. Frontispiece of the 1752 edition of the Letters of ...

The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

Also included is a generous selection from Pessoa’s masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, freshly translated by Richard Zenith from newly discovered materials. Fernando Pessoa was one of the greatest exponents of modernism.

Principles of Greek: A Practical Greek Grammar, With Progressive Exercises

Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their ...

A Voice from the Attic

... books to were trash unless they enjoy life or better to endure it.” He obviously had no prophetic vision of the ... Vernon Howard's Word Power: Talk Your Way to Life Leadership, a work which “presents a program for becoming the kind of person ...

Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German

... man shows under their influence. We know rather that it is man who transfers ... free by matter. The soft and graceful beauty, to satisfy this twofold problem ... the sensuous man is led to form and to thought; by beauty the spiritual man ...

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