Literary Criticism - Page 21

The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts

Winner, 2011 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in Literature and Fine ArtsThe Neural Sublime brings recent w...

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Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI

In the modern world, why do we still resort to speculation? Advances in scientific and statistical r...

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The Invention of Oscar Wilde

“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Inven...

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John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion

John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of th...

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The Byzantine Sinbad

The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher and The Fables of Syntipas, both...

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Strange Antics: A History of Seduction

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explo...

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Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense

Admirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary ga...

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Horror: A Very Short Introduction

Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, no...

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The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Pol...

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You Are What You Read: A Practical Guide to Reading Well

We are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for...

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The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance

An exhilarating and untold account of a Florentine bookseller working at the frontiers of human know...

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Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy

An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare’s greatest characters were built on a ...

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Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational

Since Gutenberg’s time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational...

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Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love

The term ars erotica refers to the styles and techniques of lovemaking with the honorific title of a...

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Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works

A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographica...

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