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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow potx

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow potx

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 14:20
... ghting the wind on the pinnacle of the barn. In the mean time, Ichabod would carry on his suit with the daughter by the side of the spring under the great elm, or sauntering along in the twilight, ... budget of others were called to mind; and when they had diligently consid- ered them all, and compared them with the symptoms of the present case, they shook their heads, and came to the conclusion ... B. for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair. Brom Bones, however, was the hero of the scene, hav- ing come to the gathering...
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The concepts of art and poetry in Emmanuel Levinas’s writings

The concepts of art and poetry in Emmanuel Levinas’s writings

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 10:20
... si- multaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. ’ 5 As if modern poetry were now become the experience of poetry as such, quite apart from the significance or utility it might still have for the church, the ... the way the messianic vigil defers the end of history, or (as in Blanchot’s poetics) the way dying is the impossibility of death: Death qua nothingness is the death of the other, death for the survivor. ... presence; it Art and poetry in Levinas 219 (3) The idea that art ‘brings into the world the obscurity of fate’ summarizes neatly the thesis of the materiality of art (namely that the artwork[is]...
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The GED Language Arts, Reading Exam - Poetry

The GED Language Arts, Reading Exam - Poetry

Ngày tải lên : 02/11/2013, 17:20
... (repetition of the p sound), in the middle (repetition of the t sound), and at the end (repetition of the r sound). Notice the allitera- tion of the k sound in the first line and the l sound in the second ... at once in a big new field The last line of the poem sums up the compensation for the soldiers: Wages: Death. Thus, the structure of the poem helps reflect its theme: The absurdity of running an ... bad early in life has a mother who’s a chronic liar. NORA: Why just the mother? HELMER: It’s usually the mother’s influence that’s dominant, but the father’s works in the same way, of course. Every...
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The Poetry of Architecture pdf

The Poetry of Architecture pdf

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 13:20
... by the Author. 17. So much for the character of the two cottages, as they assimilate with the countries in which they are found. Let us now see how they assimilate with the character of the ... q to show how the same form and idea are modified by the mind of the nations who employ it. The design is the same in both, the proportions also; but the one is a chimney, the other a paltry ... attached to them, to assist the festoons of the vine; and the graceful irregularity and marked character of the whole must be dwelt on with equal delight by the eye of the poet, the artist, or the...
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Writers’ Workshops & the Work of Making Things - Patterns, Poetry... potx

Writers’ Workshops & the Work of Making Things - Patterns, Poetry... potx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 21:20
... worked, their structures and devices. These origins explain the reliance of the workshop on the text and the author as fly on the wall even in informal workshops in which the author is closer to the action ... 11:38 AM Page 8 page rather than at the intentions of the author or the historical and aesthetic context of the work. Under this philosophy, the workshop doesn’t care much what the author feels about ... people. The seed for the writers’ workshop as we now know it was planted at the end of the nineteenth century at the University of Iowa. The result was the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which is one of the...
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Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History

Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 18:19
... participant; it is the “open” space of the window, and the agent by which Six reads. This light illuminates the head and hand of Six, the sword hilt upon the table, and the pile of books, the top one ... could well have attended one of the five performances of Medea in the autumn of 1647. Noting the theatricality of the costumes and the similarity of the architecture to the Stadsschouwburg, J. Konst posited ... studying the changes in the prints, we understand that the artist collaborated closely with the author in mak- ing his imagery conform to the demands of the text. By accounting for the more certain...
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Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic pptx

Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic pptx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 13:20
... self-consciousness as aesthetic investigations’ (ibid.). The fragment thus paved the way for poetry as the basis for philosophy and aesthetics as the basis of metaphysics. The fragment, combining ... Hegel, and therefore he prefers the combination of music and poetry, as the latter is, by way of its language, able to establish a relation between the inner and the outer. Poetry, in the end, ... social or biographical materials rather than to understand or create something outside them’ (p. xii). Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic therefore is not the work of ‘philosophical criticism’...
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Learning from My Mother’s Voice Family Legend and the Chinese American Experience pptx

Learning from My Mother’s Voice Family Legend and the Chinese American Experience pptx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 04:20
... power of the family, the children of all the wives belonged to the first wife or Dai Ma (Eldest Mother). The power in the family rested with the father, eldest son, and grandmother or eldest mother ... China and the United States at the beginning of the 20th century sets the context for this saga and enriches the bicultural symbolism and mythology that unfold in the oral history. The themes of ... kills his father. He meets up with the Sphinx, who terrorizes Thebans by refusing passage to those who cannot answer its riddles. Oedipus answers the riddle, thereby freeing the Thebans of their domination. Oedipus...
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Havelok The Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln docx

Havelok The Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln docx

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 21:20
... sold as to the buyers; and then the grass failed in the drought, and the farmers were glad to sell the cattle and sheep for what they could gain, rather than see them starve. Then my father bade ... Ethelbert of Kent, the overlord of all England, the Bretwalda, and therefore, as Father Wislac counts, about the year of grace 580. But King Ethelbert does not come into the story, nor does the ... during the next few days, while we dwelt at the farm. Then at the height of the spring tides the ship broke up, for a second gale came before the sea that the last had raised was gone. And then...
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the cambridge introduction to russian poetry

the cambridge introduction to russian poetry

Ngày tải lên : 17/04/2014, 15:34
... personification of the poet himself. (The fact that mention of the fruit itself is delayed until the second line encourages the initial uncertainty as to whether the sound is human or natural. This is the syntactic ... proto-Romanticism) led to the emergence of the elegy, which 81 18 Russian poetry marks the middle. Taken together, these three principles (syllable count, rhyme, caesura) served to set the poetic utterance ... occurred not in Derzhavin, but in the poets of the early nineteenth century. In their work, the elegy becomes the prominent genre, displacing the odic stanza and stance. The Russian elegy is defined...
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