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How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contem...
Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How ...
phenomenologia
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The Third Hand: Collaboration in Art From Conceptualism t...
In this scholarly study of collaborative art, Green a collaborative artist and the Australian correspondent for Artforum, explores a crisis in artistic representation that has led to a reinvention of artistic identity. This is not a comprehensive study of artists who happen to work together but r...
Paradoxes From A to Z
This updated second edition is the essential guide to paradoxes and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus' Ship and...
Design&Life #17
from peterek2 in Magazines & Newspapers
Design&Life is an online minizine published by PH design consultant. The minizine gathers information including design, lifestyle, fashion, trend and creative news from all over the world. And even bring the healthiest, the most creative and easiest D&L - made recipes.
The Big Book of Concepts
Concepts are the glue that holds our mental world together.Our concepts embody much of our knowledge of the world, telling us what things there are and what properties they have. It may not seem to be a great intellectual achievement to identify a bulldog or to know what to do with a tomato, but ...
T.S. Eliot - Collected Poems 1909-1962
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888–4 January 1965), was a poet, playwright, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", Ash Wednesday, Four Quartets, Murder i...
Brian Heffron
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One Hundred & Seventy Chinese Poems
First published by Alfred Knopf in 1919, this is the book that alerted the West to the richness and variety of Chinese literature. Arthur Waley (1889-1966), a shy reclusive scholar, was one of the earliest champions of Asian literature in the English-speaking world.This splendid collection of Chi...
Chinese Fashions [Dover Coloring Book]
Over 1,000 years of Chinese fashions for men and women are spotlighted in this exquisitely rendered coloring book--from a strapless high-waisted dress with a transparent outer robe worn during the Tang dynasty (a.d. 618-907) to an elegant,knee-length sheath trimmed with a floral applique (late Re...
Drowning Girls in China: Female Infanticide in China Sinc...
This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the causes of female infanticide and its persistence for tw...
The Trashy Novel Corp
scribbled: Horrible reality. But there is a God of literature in some of the drawings, he makes notes of the good deeds of women who saved little girls and brings them good karma.
Zhu Wen - I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the ofte...
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