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The Line of Beauty - Sex, anger, lust, danger: the semiotics of scarlet | 1843 | The Economist
The Economist - HomepageSubscribeLoginThe Line of BeautySex, anger, lust, danger: the semiotics of scarletA streak of red never goes out of fashion1843Jul 10th 2020by Matthew SweetRed is trouble. Sometimes too much trouble. Look at what it’s doing to these pages; this paragraph. Flooding them with the promiscuity of its associations: blood, desire, danger, anger, love, good luck, failure, frustration, fight, flight, fault. We might beg for it to stop, but we’d need red to make the sign. And w...
Greek names list excerpt H-K
HADES m Greek Mythology From Greek Ἅιδης (Haides), derived from ἀϊδής (aides)meaning "unseen". In Greek mythology Hades was the dark god of the underworld, a place that was also called Hades. His brother was Zeus and his wife was Persephone.HAIDES m Greek Mythology Ancient Greek form of HADES. After the classical period, the ιin the sequence αι (often written as a subscript like ᾳ) was not pronounced.HECTOR m English, French, Greek Mythology (Latinized), Arthurian Romance Latinized form of Gr...
Stories Strangely Told: Borges, Bad Art, and the Infinite Aleph
About Advertise » Contribute » Essays » Book Reviews Interviews Journal Go to... Home » Series » Stories Strangely Told: Borges, Bad Art, and the Infinite Aleph Stories Strangely Told: Borges, Bad Art, and the Infinite Aleph Author: Mark Hengstler | Mar142017 Posted in Series No comments Stories Stran...
TS Eliot as George F Will on President Trump and current pandemic events
The Washington Post, 20 Jun 2020, page A19
Literary Terms Glossary (Starting with "P")
Home Free Glossaries Free Dictionaries Post Your Translation Job! Free Articles Jobs for Translators Literary Terms Glossary (Starting with "P") By Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_terms ...
The Eyes (review) by Rancid_Pickle - Everything2.com
The Eyes (review) See all of The Eyes, there is 1 more in this node. by Rancid_Pickle (2.1 wk) CC Rep: 8 ( +9 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Sun Nov 26 2017 at 20:22:55 In Edith Wharton's "The Eyes", the main character is a rather narcissistic gentleman of some fortune that enjoys being idolozed by others and to be the center around which the social world and conversation orbits. He sits back on his armchair, listening and blinking through smoke circles with the cheerful tolerance of a...
Primate Chess – Neurodiversity, social conflict, and it's expression independent of group.
Related to the non-literal language post.Here are some interesting things I should have put into my last post that have to do with language and non-literal language that I believe are useful. These are examples for getting an idea about how we transmit information to one another, and how anatomy is used in language. *The first is a university news article on a study looking at brain regions activated when hearing metaphors. Hearing metaphors activates sensory brain regions. It turns out that ...
A Novel Way to Think About Literary Categories | by Tim Parks | The New York Review of Books
A Novel Way to Think About Literary Categories Tim Parks Anton Chekhov in Yalta, 1900; Charles Dickens at Antoine Francois Jean Claudet’s London studio, circa 1852 Why do we categorize novels? Fantasy, Chick Lit, Crime, Romance, Literary, Gothic, Feminist… Is it the better to find what we want, on the carefully labelled shelves of our bookshops? So that the reading experience won’t, after all, be too novel. Or is it simply for the pleasure of putting ...
Book
Book see Flower see Pig That the word ‘‘book’’ occurs over a hundred times in the Old Testament is not surprising given the importance of sacred books to the Hebrews. Books were far less important to the Greeks, who tended to rely more on oral tradition; for all the care given to editing him even ‘‘Homer’’ was never a holy text. Various particular books are named in the Old Testament, some of them otherwise unknown to us, but when the Lord tells Joshua that ‘‘This book of the law shall not...
Page 114 of Gravity’s Rainbow begins chapter 8 - Working for the Nazis
CHAPTER 8 Working for the Nazis Once conditioned at the Casino Hermann Goering, Slothrop seems so well synced to the rocket that They can set him quasi-free in the Zone to see what he turns up, his colonized mind posing little threat to the system. His case represents the extent to which domination in Gravity’s Rainbow depends on institutions that condition subjects’ behaviors in ways simulating self-control and masking the Manchurian Candidate–style mind control that it actually entails. S...
CLAS 3381 | caseyduehackney
CLAS 3381 From Homer to Hollywood This course integrates literature and film as an introduction to ancient Greek literature and culture. With one or two exceptions, these films do not adapt particular works of Greek literature, but make use of important themes developed in antiquity, shed light on complex structures embedded in the literature, or otherwise translate and allude in meaningful ways to the texts that we will discuss in connection with the films. As students you will be asked...
THE EPIC CYCLE
THE EPIC CYCLE The Epic Cycle Translated by Gregory Nagy Proclus’ Summary of the Cypria, attributed to Stasinus of Cyprus 1Zeus, together with Themis, plans the Trojan War. For Eris, while attending a feast of the gods at the wedding of Peleus, instigates a feud [neikos] among Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite about beauty. They, by order of Zeus, are led by Hermes to Mount Ida for judgment by Alexandros. Alexandros judges for Aphrodite, encouraged by a promise of Helen in marriage. 5On the...
Esau and Jacob - Twins and metaphor
Esau and Jacob - Twins and metaphorMap According to the Hebrew Bible, Esau is the progenitor of the Edomites and the elder brother of Jacob, the patriarch of the Israelites. Esau and Jacob were the sons of Isaac and Rebekah, and the grandsons of Abraham and Sarah. Of the twins, Esau was the first to be born with Jacob following, holding his heel. Wikipedia › wiki › Esau Esau and Ishmael and Jacobs Friends - more_otter.ai.docxAuthor: Ziad Shihab Esau and Ishmael and Jacobs Fr...
Cleanness - Porno Swagger - LRB Apr 2020
Cleanness - Porno Swagger - LRB Apr 2020Map Cleanness - Literary Review May 2020Map