In life, at least before the espionage charges, it was Mata Hari's body that made her mesmerizing; in this alluring novel, it is her hypnotic voice. As softly poetic as it is insistent, it entices the reader from the first lines to give Mata Hari what she always craved: not the secrets that are the currency of a spy, but the rapt attention that is oxygen to a performer.
What are human languages, such that they can be acquired and used as they are? This text surveys some of the most important and recent approaches to this question, breaking the problem up along traditional lines. The emphasis is on methods.
One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike.
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 11 November 2010
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Matthew Arnold: Selected Poetry
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural criticist on contemporary social issues. Contents: Apollo Musagetes, Bacchanalia or The New Age, Cadmus and Harmonia, Consolation, Dover Beach, From the Hymn of Empedocles, Immortality, Isolation, Lines Written in Kensington Gardens, Memorial Verses: April 1850, Morality, Mycerinus, Obermann Once More, Palladium, Philomela, Quiet Work, Requiescat, Rugby Chapel,Shakespeare, Self-Dependence, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, The Buried Life, The Forsaken Merman,The Future, The Last Word, Worldly Place, The Scholar-Gipsy, The Song of Callicles, The Strayed Reveller, Thyrsis a Monody, To Marguriet: Continued, Youth and Calm, Index of First Lines
