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1 giorno fa · Although Skinner believed his behaviorist idyll followed Thoreau’s ideas of an alternative mode of simple living, Life magazine—evoking the postwar sense that grand visions veiled totalitarian impulses—derided the comparison: “Thoreau’s book is profoundly antiutopian; it does not belong in the long line of antiseptic literature that began with Plato’s Republic.
6 giorni fa · Literary Visions of the Middle East: an anthology of canonical masterpieces of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew fiction (mid-19th to early 21st centuries) by Stephan Guth (Editor) Location: Mugar Stacks PJ409 .L58 2019. Publication Date: 2019.
- Barbara Maratos
- 2017
1 giorno fa · This illuminating study by novelist, historian, and critic Eva Hoffman is a literary biography of the Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. One of the greatest writers of our time, Miłosz captures in much of his writing the intensities of a violent century of war and the terrors of authoritarian regimes. A Catholic who helped to shelter Jews ...
14 ore fa · This article focuses on an aquacritical reading of literary sources within the emerging historiography of flooding. In 1934 the largest flood in the history of the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939) happened. After summer torrential rains the tributaries of the main river in Poland, the Vistula River, disrupted the functioning of the centrally-managed and newly recovered state. By using a ...
1 giorno fa · Visions. From a young age, William Blake claimed to have seen visions. The first may have occurred as early as the age of four when, according to one anecdote, the young artist "saw God" when God "put his head to the window", causing Blake to break into screaming.
5 giorni fa · In conclusion, from the perspective of cultural philosophy we demonstrate and theorize a diverse and multifaceted crisis of visions of the future as exemplified in the sources studied. If modernity was characterized by a strong sense of the future, the current culture is gradually erasing the distinction between artistic concepts and visions of yesterday and tomorrow in a blurred reference to ...
3 giorni fa · The theories on the relationship between population growth and resources proposed by Thomas Malthus in 1798 have influenced European social sciences, philosophy, and literature ever since.
