The Meaning of Art
Rabindranath Tagore · Essays & speeches
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A library of 104 free summaries covering peer-reviewed research, essays, scholarly books, poetry and dissertations. Each entry sets out the argument in plain English, points to the passages that carry it, and links to the original text so you can read further. Browse by type below, or use the summarizer on anything you have of your own.
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Body Ritual among the Nacirema
Horace Miner · Journal articles
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Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead · Books & reports
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Najib Mahfuz's Midaq Alley: A Socio-Cultural Analysis
Marius Deeb · Dissertations
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The Economy of the Feminine in Emilia Pardo Bazán's "Las medias rojas
Bonnie L. Gasior · Journal articles
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On Flags and Fraternities: Lessons on Cultural Memory and Historical Amnesia in Charles Chesnutt's "Po' Sandy
Margaret D. Bauer · Journal articles
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Materializing a Cyborg's Manifesto
Jackie Orr · Journal articles
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Decoration and Decorum, Adolf Loos's Critique of Kitsch
Miriam Gusevich · Journal articles
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Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the "Rite of Spring
Daniel K. L. Chua · Journal articles
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The Function of Stephen's Speech (Acts 7,2-53)
John J. Kilgallen · Dissertations
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An Analysis of Seneca's Thyestes
Joe Park Poe · Dissertations
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Theme, Plot, and Technique in the "Heracles" of Euripides
D. J. Conacher · Journal articles
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The Argument of Hesiod's Works and Days
Frederick J. Teggart · Journal articles
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Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime
Suzanne Guerlac · Journal articles
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Gorgias' Encomium to Helen and the Defense of Rhetoric
John Poulakos · Essays & speeches
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The Influence of Machado de Assis on John Barth's "The Floating Opera
Earl E. Fitz · Journal articles
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Japanese perceptions of "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Pauline Kent · Journal articles
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Karl Polanyi and the Writing of "The Great Transformation
Fred Block · Essays & speeches
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The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023
Andrew Metrick · Journal articles
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The Road to Serfdom after 75 Years
Bruce Caldwell · Journal articles
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Expenditures, Savings, and Income
Dorothy S. Brady · Books & reports
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Reading and Misreading "The Man of Mode
R. D. Hume · Journal articles
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Audre Lorde · Books & reports
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The Implications of the Warnock Report for the Education of the Maladjusted
Peter H. Priestley · Journal articles
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Considering the Nature of Wilderness: Reflections on Roderick Nash's "Wilderness and the American Mind
Bryan McDonald · Journal articles
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Feminist Criticism in The Wilderness
Elaine Showalter · Essays & speeches
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Subjects of Terror: The Ethical Impulse in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's "Desert Blood
Lorna Pérez · Journal articles
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futuristic technologies and purdah in the feminist utopia: Rokeya S. Hossain's 'Sultana's dream
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard · Journal articles
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A Leaf In The Storm
Lalithambika Antharjanam · Poetry & fiction
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The Laugh of the Medusa
Hélène Cixous, Keith Cohen and Paula Cohen · Essays & speeches
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