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The relationship between Saigon and Washington had been under strain in view of differences that existed inmany key aspects of policy, and strategy, manifested at many levels of human interaction. The alliance had been in"trial and error" mode, in view of embarrassing gaffes and...

The relationship between Saigon and Washington had been under strain in view of differences that existed inmany key aspects of policy, and strategy, manifested at many levels of human interaction. The alliance had been in"trial and error" mode, in view of embarrassing gaffes and...

Along with three philosophical poems, this book has essays on not-thinking, the metaphysics of music, notes on the meaning of goodness, and a series of ideograms examining ontology and reality.Author: John Clark SmithISBN-10: 9395224886ISBN-13: 9789395224888Publisher: Cyberwit.NetLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/2023Pages: 414Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

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On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, a seven years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares him into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles. A...

Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners Volume II by William Hazlitt continues the exploration of social commentary and personal reflections initiated in the first volume. In this collection, Hazlitt delves deeper into manners and human nature, offering insightful critiques of 19th-century British society....

"Critical Miscellanies" is a set of writings written with the aid of John Morley, a well-known British baby-kisser, journalist, and writer within the overdue 1800s and early 1900s. This collection indicates how smart Morley changed into and the way well he understood distinct literary,...

George William Curtis's book "ARS RECTE VIVENDI" is thought-scary and sums up the author's philosophy on having a tremendous lifestyle. American author, editor, and social reformer George William Curtis wrote this painting inside the 1800s. It is a top notch and insightful look at...

As the first study of its kind, this book explores the publication of poetry on sound carriers in the US postwar era from an aesthetic as well as an historical point of view. Combining approaches from media and literary studies, it explains why labels...

This interdisciplinary volume provides a multifaceted exploration of the kaleidoscopic transformation of Hong Kong. It examines the region's diverse historical developments, the challenges of digital surveillance, the impact of Orientalism, the power of individual agency, minor literature, films, popular culture, and the trajectories of...

In this book Camelia Elias introduces key terms in feminist, queer, and postcolonial/diaspora film. Taking her point of departure in the question, "what do you want from me?" she detours through Lacanian theory of the gaze and reframes questions of subjectivity and representation in...

The Covid19 pandemic has made a great paradigm shift in our Philippine educational system. Though the Department of Education is pursuing its vision to provide quality instruction among Filipino learners, we cannot deny the fact that there are still multitudes of challenges to surpass....

Blond and blue-eyed African Americans who look like typical Northern Europeans? The American racial definition has resulted in the fact that no other population group has such a range of skin colors, hair textures and facial features as African Americans. And individual appearance impacts...

This volume explores the varieties of the short form in American literature, art, and culture as well as different ideas and aesthetics of simplicity, plainness, and brevity from the 19th century to the present. The contributors discuss how these ideas were translated into widely...

This study, edition, and translation (by one of the most prestigious medieval Scandinavianists in the world) begins with a 160-page monograph on the development of the vernacular Oswald legend in the Germanic world and ends with an edition and translation of the Icelandic Osvalds...

Jean-Pierre Cléro has provided the first detailed account of the influence of English-language psychoanalysts, philosophers, and mathematicians upon Lacan. He reveals the extent of Lacan's interest in the Anglo-Saxon tradition and how Lacan's erudition generated a re-evaluation of some thinkers-Boole and Bentham, for example-within...

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. History. This volume assembles essays on the practice of archives by the archivist and experimental poet Geof Huth, along with his color photographs of ancient records on parchment and distressed paper. Huth reflects on the interplay between history, archives, and...

John Conington's three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable paperbacks, with new introductions setting the commentary in its context. Well into the...

J U L I A K R I S T E V A ART, LOVE, MELANCHOLY, PHILOSOPHY, SEMIOTICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Julia Kristeva was born in Bulgaria in 1941. Educated in part by French nuns, she was involved early on in her life with Communist...

R.C. Van Caenegem is one of the few legal historians to have crossed national boundaries successfully. His knowledge of the various codes and customs of the European Continent in general and the Low Countries in particular enables him to bring a fresh eye to...

This volume, featuring essays by a number of poets and critics, is the first survey of Peter Hughes' poetry, and is published simultaneously with his Selected Poems. The book features contributions from Andrew Bailey, Riccardo Duranti, John Hall, Simon Howard, David Kennedy, Simon Marsh,...

Geniuses do not really die.While Nature and Time want us to be forgotten, creative activities preserve us, break down the barriers and make us virtually citizens of the world.In order to know how this miracle happens read this little book, with sensitivity and empathy.Author:...

In this book Seyed Ali Asghar Emadi Pahandari asserts that there are many contradictions in Marxism and Leninism and that socialism is far from commune. A communist society is against violence; thus, after the violence, you cannot have a communist society. Peace will not...

Kingsglaive's Exploration of World War II, Cultural Trauma, and the Plight of Refugees: An Animated Film as Complex Narrative posits that the 2016 film, tied narratively to the video game Final Fantasy XV, merits far more critical attention that it has received. Given that...

Valentio Di' Buondelmonte is a Tragedy in Five Acts, in two Parts, based on tragic historical events in Florence, Italy, in 1215 A.D. Part I consists of the Tragedy in Elizabethan English, in blank verse; Part II consists of the Tragedy in modern English,...

This book explores the enduring European and American interest in literary works portraying Eastern themes and perspectives. It examines how literary Easternization, termed "Logoteunison", manifests in Western literary works that reflect, embody, or deploy Eastern values or concepts; or else ape, mimic, parody, or...

From the Introduction: The Lost Symbol contains a big surprise. Not only is the lost symbol found within the context of the novel, but according to Dan Brown this lost symbol is out there for every one of us to find for ourselves. This...

This volume collects the essays presented at the colloquium "The Hyphenate Writer and the Legacy of Exile" held in February, 2008. This colloquium was born from an ongoing discussion we have been having for over twenty years on the themes of exile and immigrant...

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Many of us live dual lives, as though we live in two worlds. This divergence is perhaps greatest for those embedded in what may be called "multiculturalism." Multicultural people, with their unique life experiences, are migrating around the globe, carrying their own baggage while...

The book ""The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church V1: The First Part Containing The Sermones Catholici, Or Homilies of Aelfric"" is a collection of religious sermons or homilies from the Anglo-Saxon era, compiled by Benjamin Thorpe. The first part of the book contains the...

This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the literature of Spain, France, England, Germany, Russia, and the United States. Blackburn uses for the first time the resources of myth criticism to...

Only by isolating the particular material about the Afro-American from the body of American literature can we come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of his place in our national life. This volume presents an outline of the literature concerning blacks -- drama, fiction,...

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This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the...

"The Book of German Songs" is a comprehensive collection spanning musical compositions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Compiled by Henry William Dulcken, this volume offers a curated selection of German-language songs, reflecting the rich musical heritage of the era. This collection preserves...

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This collection of poems by the British poet Richard Aldington and his wife, the classicist Alice Maynard, is a tour de force of classical imagery and modernist sensibility. Inspired by the ancient Greek tradition of carved medallions, the poems explore themes of love, death,...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

In Letters from the American Desert, Glaysher reflects on the cultural, political, and religious history of Western and non-Western civilizations, pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity, in a compelling struggle for spiritual knowledge and truth. In what is a highly autobiographical work, fully cognizant of...

In this book John Martin, a best-selling Defoe biographer sets out a proof that Daniel Defoe was born in 1644 and not 1660 as had previously been supposed .He explains the reasons why previous Defoe biographers have been wrong about Defoe's birth and parentage...

Author: Merton M. Jr. SealtsISBN-10: 0826261612ISBN-13: 9780826261618Publisher: University of Missouri PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1996Pages: 288Format: Hardcover

When we read a novel or watch a film, we become Peeping Toms. Spying on fictional characters, we can enjoy observing their private lives and most intimate secrets while safe in the knowledge that they are totally unaware of us. The Reader as Peeping...

This new collection of critical essays on science fiction and fantasy literature features the following pieces: "Setting Ideas in Space, Time, and Infinity," "The Necessity of Science Fiction," "The British and American Traditions of Speculative Fiction," "The Biology and Sociology of Alien Worlds," "Cosmic...

The distinctive and varied formal roles that a fictional society might play in a novel is the subject of this pioneering work. Langland opens with a discussion of novel theory, placing her perspectives within contemporary theory, and follows with a discussion of novels from...

Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer. In his narrative of her life, McCarthy draws on a large body of published and unpublished sources to map...

Ide argues that some of Chapman's and Shakespeare's best Jacobean plays are related by genre, tragic hero, and the type of tragic conflict. Although the two playwrights clearly share a fascination for the soldier hero and an acute awareness of his social incompetence and...

Armstrong argues that conflicting readings occur because readers with opposing suppositions about language, literature, and life can generate irreconcilable hypotheses about a text. Without endorsing a particular critical methodology, the author offers a theory designed to help readers better understand the causes and consequences...

This is the first full-length assessment of the poetry and criticism of Robert Graves. Concentrating on his development as a poet from his earliest efforts in 1916 to his most recent collection and using his critical writings as commentaries on that development, it provides...