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1 day ago · Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ( / ˈrɛmbrænt, ˈrɛmbrɑːnt /, [2] Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə (n)ˌsoːɱ vɑn ˈrɛin] ⓘ; 15 July 1606 [1] – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history ...
16 minutes ago · Two examples have special connection to this study: in her biography of Saint Joan of Arc, Vita Sackville-West terms Shaw’s portrayal of Joan “brilliant but untrustworthy,” Footnote 39 while Virginia Woolf, in a letter to her friend Jacques Raverat, writes that she was puzzled about why people found the play so moving.
16 minutes ago · The artist in Orlando: A Biography is most definitely Woolf; however, as part of her artistry and of her revolt against Victorianism, she introduces the character of the Biographer, who attempts to record the expected “life and times” of Orlando’s property, accomplishments, looks, and personal habits in a manner that critic and biographer ...
16 minutes ago · While all the sense-perceptions may come into play in Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2000[1916], Toolan suggests that in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story, “Tomorrow is Too Far” , there is a contrast between what is foregrounded in the narrative as directly seen or heard and what is merely implied to be seeable or ...
16 minutes ago · Abstract. As Roger Casey and John Urry have illustrated, nothing popularized automobility like the Ford brand, and Ford’s most effective marketing scheme capitalized on Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey’s popular Vagabond figure, a poetic gypsy escaping the degraded commercial world to find health and happiness in natural settings.
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16 minutes ago · Click on the title to read the continuous update of the poem Wang Ruobing's Selected Poems: The Afterlife Prose Essay Guarded by the Gods Day and Night Wang Ruobing: The Mountain King of the Qinling Mountains: The Glass Wang Ruobing: The Temple above the Heart...
