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Hace 4 días · A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump -- a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth. An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of illusion and fantasy in contemporary American culture.
Hace 4 días · Herman Melville (born August 1, 1819, New York City—died September 28, 1891, New York City) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet, best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick (1851).. Heritage and youth. Melville’s heritage and youthful experiences were perhaps crucial in forming the conflicts underlying his artistic vision.
Hace 3 días · In this week’s TLS. “When we say an author or book ‘speaks to us’”, writes Gabriel Josipovici in this week’s TLS, in a symposium that marks the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, “I think we mean we feel that they understand us even when we don’t quite understand ourselves.”. By Catharine Morris.
Hace 2 días · Francis Bacon’s unfinished utopian novel The New Atlantis is often invoked in scholarship about early modern scientific projects. With its ‘Merchants of Light’ who gather information and bring it back to the House of Solomon, The New Atlantis seems to capture perfectly the aspirations of a group of European scholars who saw themselves as reassessing the bases of knowledge by revaluing ...
Hace 5 días · The first European translation of the Nights, which was also the first published edition, was made by Antoine Galland as Les Mille et Une Nuits, contes arabes traduits en français, 12 vol. (vol. 1–10, 1704–12; vol. 11 and 12, 1717).Galland’s main text was a four-volume Syrian manuscript, but the later volumes contain many stories from oral and other sources.
Hace 3 días · 1.00 This course will introduce students to the wealth of 20th- and 21SI-century literature from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This course will ask students to understand contemporary (and some modern) Irish literature and how it responds to, reflects, and reshapes the politics of Ireland.
Hace 2 días · A Greek manuscript of the beginning of Hesiod's Works and Days. Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire.The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic past today ...
