"I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house," wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. In creating this list, and many others that appear in his writings, Thoreau was working within a little-recognized yet ancient literary ...
This volume spotlights America's new mortality awareness since 9/11 and the ways that has changed us as reflected in everything from flourishing college courses on death, to popular television shows dealing with death, increasingly common new methods of disposing of dead bodies, ways to honor the dead including tattoos, and even new cosmological ...
Given the restrictions on political action and even political discussion in Russia, Russian literary journals have served as the principal means by which Russia discovered, defined and shaped itself. Every issue of importance for literate Russians - social, economic, literary - made its appearance in one way or another on the pages of these ...
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