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Hace 4 días · Melville's growing literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852).
Hace 13 horas · On view in the Grolier Club’s second floor gallery from September 12 through November 9, Melville’s Billy Budd at 100 highlights the work left unfinished on Melville’s desk at his death in 1891 and posthumously published in 1924.. The exhibition is curated by Grolier Club member William Palmer Johnston from his extensive Melville collection and features more than 50 items including ...
Hace 2 días · "Wisdom and Woe" is a philosophy and literature discussion group dedicated to exploring the world, work, life, and times of Herman Melville and the 19th century Romantic movement. We will read and discuss topics related to:
Hace 3 días · Reflexive fascism has been growing on the fractures and ambiguities ever since, writes Strick. This is the crux of the discourse of 'tolerance': it feels good, a feeling of euphoria in one's own openness, which almost always immediately leads to an exclusionary hardening of the 'we', which offers reflexive fascism a double starting point, writes Strick.
Hace 13 horas · This is particularly important since, in many states, ambiguities in an insurance policy must be “strictly construed against the insurer.” See, e.g. , Old Republic Nat’l Title Ins. Co. v. RM ...
Hace 1 día · That led to the arrest of more than 1,000 people and the seizure of hundreds of firearms by the time the operation was wound up, and the subterfuge revealed, in 2021. It was the largest law ...
7 de jul. de 2024 · Outraged by the misery and injustice he saw all around him, he joined the French Resistance, risking his life to help Jews escape Vichy France during WWII, and created the remarkable Emmaüs movement, battling poverty and homelessness in France — and, ultimately, the world over. This is his story.
