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“Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.”

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Peggy Phelan is an American author renowned for her contributions to feminist literary criticism and performance art. Her work explores themes of gender, power, and narrative, having a profound impact on contemporary culture. more

“Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.”

Firsts Art Bigs Attention Century Art Is Advantage Twenties Embrace University Witty Arguing Radical Twentieth Century Alliances Assessment Provocative Patron Patronizing

Author:Peggy Phelan

“We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.”

States Government Security Handle Day To Day Afghan

Author:Stephen Harper

“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”

Needs Moments Past Memories Conditions Events Particular Personality Reader Elements Response Determine Mood Combination Traits Preoccupation Personality Traits Past Events

Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

“Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.”

World Literature Understanding Wise Introducing Being Wise

Author:Louise Rosenblatt

“A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.”

Reader Guidance Relevant

Author:Louise Rosenblatt

“Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.”

People Book Happens

Book:Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays

Source: Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays

“Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.”

Giving Writing Book Reading Reader Pages Professors Ink

Author:Louise Rosenblatt

“Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.”

Process Influence Events Position Degrees Remains Canada Allies Reconstruction

Author:Stephen Harper

“There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.”

Heart Use Found Individual Known Travel Towns Safety Desert Articles Distribution Razors Norway Sahara Sahara Desert

Author:King C. Gillette

“In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.”

May Done Cases Amount Heat Quantity Work Done Expenditures Thermodynamics

Author:Rudolf Clausius

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