Enigma Otiliei by George Călinescu5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. (English) Copyright of Revista Transilvania is the property of Revista Transilvania and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. Finally, I argue that the author employs the narrative device of “prototypical distortion” to lampoon the characters’ deviance. Therefore, I point to the maladaptive psychological traits that the characters exhibit and to how these are projected into the character’ language, forming thus idiosincratic linguistic patterns. ![]() Călinescu’s 1938 novel Enigma Otiliei (Otilia’s Riddle) and, in the wake of several literary critics’ shared view that the novel’s characters are individuals driven by much more complex internal mechanisms than simply being based on a single social schema, I suggest that this complexity can be accounted for by the tools provided by psychopathology. ![]()
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Murdering McKinley by Eric Rauchway5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() "Presentism," Fischer wrote, "appears in the new-liberal narratives of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., where American history is the steady progress of pragmatic liberalism from Jefferson to Jackson to Franklin Roosevelt. In his 1970 book Historians' Fallacies, David Hackett Fischer identified Schlesinger-style history as a historical error called "presentism." You couldn't look for the origins of the present in the past without doing damage to the past, and you'd do it based on your politics. While Tanenhaus is right about what happened, he's wrong about when: A generation of historians did try to expunge this kind of history, but now it's coming back in. ![]() ![]() Schlesinger and his contemporaries "rummaged in for clues to understanding, if not solving, the most pressing political questions of the present," Tanenhaus said, but today's "current historians" don't. this month, he claimed there are now no longer any historians who write about the past as if it mattered to us today. When Sam Tanenhaus, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, eulogized the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. ![]() Author of before i fall5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Sam is killed in a car crash on Friday, February 12, but she wakes the next morning to that same day, again and again. It’s the day Sam plans to lose her virginity to her boyfriend, Rob. ![]() }iscussion guide created by Kate Coxon, Academic Dean of Rocketship Si Se Puede Academy, Palo Alto, California.ĪBOUT THE BOOK Friday, February 12 is a big day for Samantha Kingston: It’s Cupid Day, when all the kids at school will count the roses they receive to see just how popular they are.To order, please contact your HarperCollins sales representative, call 1-800-C-HARPER, or fax your order to 1-80. ![]() For exclusive information on your favorite authors and artists, visit.You can visit Lauren Oliver online and read her blog at: Of Chicago and the MFA program at New York University, is a full-time writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Lauren Oliver, a graduate of the University A compelling book with a powerful message and should not be missed. Oliver, in a pitch-perfect teen voice, explores the power we have to affect the people around us in this intensely believable first novel. Jay Asher, author of the New York Times bestseller Thirteen Reasons Why You’ll have no choice but to tear through this book! This story races forward, twisting in a new direction every few pages, its characters spinning my emotions from affection to frustration, anger to compassion. Carolyn Mackler, author of the Printz Honor Book The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things Lauren Oliver has written an extraordinary debut novel about what it means to live-and die. ![]() Hate to want you novel5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() I had heard so much about this book, from so many places so it was great to finally read what everyone had been going on about. He tries to forget and move on, but then she reappears in town and the two of them have to face up to the issues in their past and work out if they can find a way to be together agains the odds. ![]() Then one year Nico doesn’t hear from Livvy. One night where they forget the fact that their families are enemies, the tragedy in their past and the reasons they hide their feelings even from themselves. Livvy and Nico spend one night together every year. Hate To Want You is the first book in Alisha Rai’s Forbidden Hearts series and features a second chance, enemies to lovers, family dysfunction sort of thing. Back in the contemporary romance world again this week because another of my library holds came in and it was a lot of fun. ![]() The big short lewis5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sam Bankman-Fried ‘joked’ about Alameda Research losing $50M: ‘Such is life’ĭisgraced FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried already appears to be turning his crypto saga into a blockbuster, with the help of a top writer who penned Hollywood hit “The Big Short.”Ĭurrently holed up at his parents’ home at Stanford University after being released on $250 million bail last week following being slapped with federal charges of financial fraud and money laundering, Bankman-Fried was visited by bestselling author Michael Lewis. Sam Bankman-Fried urges court to toss charges: ‘Rush to judgment’įTX ‘dumpster fire is out’ - $7.3B in assets recovered: attorneyįTX’s ex-US boss saw bonus slashed after ‘protracted disagreement’ with SBF: report ![]() War and peace anna karenina5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. ![]() ![]() Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() Rewilding book knepp5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() If we build these homes, then basically Knepp becomes yet another island. Knepp is a biodiversity hotspot and, at the moment, our species are spilling out into the countryside and green spaces around us. “If wildlife can’t move in response to temperature rises, then it’s doomed to extinction. ![]() “It’s looking more and more likely that the site closest to us – the one right on our border – will be the one they could go for,” said Isabella Tree, co-owner of the Knepp estate and author of Wilding, a book about how she turned the former farm’s depleted, loss-making land into the site of the largest rewilding experiment in lowland England.Īs many as 3,500 new homes could be built on the greenfield site known as Buck Barn, which Tree says would shut off a key route for wildlife to move in and out of the estate as climate change occurs. Several major sites being considered for development in a draft local plan by Horsham district council will “devastate” the important rewilding project, campaigners say, blocking off any potential to create a vital, protected wildlife corridor linking the estate with the St Leonard’s and Ashdown forests. But the future of this 1,400-hectare (3,500-acre) estate near Horsham – which, in just 20 years, has been utterly transformed by nature into one of most important sites for wildlife in the UK – is now under threat, campaigners say. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of staying a disinterested observer, he became interested-and then he became a participant. ![]() Covington’s narrative thus does not really have one objective point or purpose: it starts off intending to do one thing-to write in a journalistic fashion on the Church of Jesus with Signs Following, where its preacher had been sentenced to 99 years in prison for forcing his wife to place her arm in a box of rattlesnakes, which promptly bit her. Covington does the same in his book, and the end result is that the entire work becomes like a phenomenological study-a journalistic exercise into a fringe religion that takes an unexpectedly personal turn and tone as the author begins to connect more and more with his subject and identify his heritage with its. The book thus follows in the genre of the documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, who pioneered the aesthetic/ experiential form of non-fiction filmmaking by setting out to document a time and place but ultimately turning the camera on himself and his own experience of it. The author becomes so immersed in the world of snake-handling that he himself becomes one. ![]() ![]() What begins as an objective exercise in describing this peculiar region and its religions practices quickly becomes a personal exercise in reflection and faith. Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington is a work of non-fiction that sets out initially to objectively describe a time and place-the rural South in the early 1990s, specifically the part of the rural South in which snake-handling is practiced by Christian sects. Finding Faith in Salvation on Sand Mountain ![]() Moonscript by H.S.J. Williams5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() She doesn't realize all she wants is a friend. The hurt, the betrayal, the fear, the love, the kindness, Etc. I don't know how it's possible to love fake people so much. Really clean.Ĭharacters - *flails* *collapses in another puddle of feels* They were so amazing. Dark spell and a Lord of the Dead (if that sort of thing is disturbing to you). very violent? But William's tells it with such grace that even though the scene is painful you know everything is going to be okay. No sickening drama.Ĭontent - So it's violent. It was clean and beautiful and pure and refreshing. ![]() William's author voice and you get (KA-BOOM) the most epic fairytale retelling of all time. I mean, this is a gender swapped fairytale retelling, so you just KNOW it's going to be CUTE. It played out like a movie with hardly a bump. Williams* Everything was brilliant and easy to picture. *sends 1 billion hearts and stars to H.S.J. The word pictures, the stunning beauty of this world, the allegories. (*Is about to squeal my head off* THISSSSSSSSSS)ĭescription - Gahhhhh. ![]() THIS BOOK was a rollercoaster of emotions and surprises. I can predict so many plot twists (cuz cliche) that's it's not funny anymore. ![]() I've read a lot of fantasy in my short time on earth. Bitter mountains, wild parties, and fierce battles. This story-this author captures those same magnificent feelings and *my heart*. □ Reading this book brings to mind all the great authors in history. THIS IS WHAT A MASTERPIECE IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE. My expectations have been blown out the window. ![]() The bookwoman5/27/2023 ![]() In 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project, delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains. As a Book Woman, Cussy Mary is highly regarded, but as a Blue, she is feared and reviled, and experiences racism, discrimination and violence. ![]() Cussy Mary is also a "Blue" - the last of a line of blue-skinned people, whose skin appears the unusual shade due to a rare genetic disorder. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. ![]() Cussy Mary is a "Book Woman" - one of the Packhorse Librarians who delivered books to remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression, from 1935 to 1943, as part of President Franklin D. The story is a fictionalized account of real subjects in the history of eastern Kentucky. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson. ![]() 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek ![]() |