"La lengua sirve para hablar para comer helado para hacer muecas y, a veces, para lamer el plato"Así, con una exploración poética sobre el órgano de los sabores, comienza este libro híbrido entre lo literario y lo informativo, escrito a cuatro manos por una poeta y filósofa y un crítico culinario.
An amazing journey through the thriving worlds of fantasy and gamingWhat could one man find if he embarked on a journey through fantasy world after fantasy world?
This unique book is an exploration of Christianity alongside Jewish guides who are well-studied in and sympathetic to Christianity, but who remain "e;near Christianity.
Heredera de la riquísima tradición oral wayuu -pero también de una tradición literaria escrita prácticamente desconocida en Colombia- Vicenta María Siosi Pino a través de los nueve relatos que componen Jaipai joutaleulojotu-Cerezas en verano nos muestra la cotidianidad de la dimensión mística, las duras condiciones de vida y los conflictos internos en la sociedad wayuu.
A magnificent one-volume abridgement of one of the greatest literary biographies of our timeJoseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language-and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century.
In this book, the first in English devoted exclusively to Maurice Blanchot, John Gregg examines the problematic interaction between the two forms of discourse, critical and fictional, that comprise this writer's hybrid oeuvre.
Few morose thoughts permeate the brain when Yosemite Sam calls Bugs Bunny a ';long-eared galut' or a frustrated Homer Simpson blurts out his famous catch-word, ';D'oh!
Reclam Lektüreschlüssel XL – hier findest du alle Informationen, um dich zielsicher und schnell vorzubereiten: auf Klausur, Referat, Abitur oder Matura!
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Freshwater: a comedy by Virginia Woolf (1923 & 1935 Version)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
THE DARKLY HILARIOUS AND BRILLIANTLY WISE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF SAD JANET****All her life, Susan's loved ones have been hiding a terrible secret from her: If she thinks too hard, her head will explode.
It is his clear-sightedness, his candour, his steely strength of will, the immediacy of his writing, his insolence and cynicism, his love of liberty, his hatred of hypocrisy, his originality, his rational enlightened toughness which attached Byron to the present age as much as to his own.
How privileged adolescents in China acquire status and why this helps them succeed Study Gods offers a rare look at the ways privileged youth in China prepare themselves to join the ranks of the global elite.
George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a protagonist in a series of fantasy and science fiction novels and stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Works: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Essays, Memoirs and Letters"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "e;early"e; and "e;late"e; workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact.
In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the world's most vigorous philosophical tradition.
The second volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the second volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda, a delightful introduction to the creator of Sherlock HolmesA passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars-the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups.
A new, counterintuitive theory for how social networks influence the spread of behaviorNew social movements, technologies, and public-health initiatives often struggle to take off, yet many diseases disperse rapidly without issue.
From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction.
The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can't make sense of contemporary artA classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ended in the 1960s.
