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Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a professional topographical artist and lived most of his life in London. The seventh and eighth volumes of the diaries run from January 1805 to the end of December 1807, a troubled time for the Royal Academy. Farington chronicles the disputes that led Benjamin West to give up in December 1805 his increasingly untenable position as President.

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Through elaborate and elegant close readings of poems by Rilke, Proust's Remembrance, Nietzsche's philosophical writings and the major works of Rousseau, de Man concludes that all writing concerns itself with its own activity as language, and language, he says is always unreliable, slippery, impossible....Literary narrative, because it must rely on language, tells the story of its own inability to tell a story....De Man demonstrates, beautiful...

This period finds Farington embarking on extended tours - one to the north of England an two to the West Country - making sketches to illustrate the survey of Britain.

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The book is a major contribution- the product of serious research, competently written, and almost entirely free of partisan emotion.' -C.L. Sonnichsen, Journal of Arizona History

This is a superb book, one that answers many questions about a Chinese, past and present.

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Die Schreckbilder der ersten Zeit: eine kleine Aster, vom Arzt in den Brustkorb eines ersoffenen Bierfahrers eingenäht, der Leichnam eines ertrunkenen Mädchens als Rattennest und der infernalische Vers »Die Krone der Schöpfung, das Schwein, der Mensch«. Aus dem Abstand von Jahrzehnten kommentiert Benn: »allerdings erschien mir das Ganze als Wurf und Wahnsinn gut ... Enzephalitische Prozesse, halb lyrische Epilepsie, halb moralische Lethargien«...