Hélène Cixous chronicles the last six months of her mother’s life, transgressing the mother-daughter relation in the experience of dying Mother Homer is Dead was ...
Continue Reading →Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the ...
Continue Reading →Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation, or making-strange, from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and ...
Continue Reading →Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation ...
Continue Reading →On the Sublime is given a 1st-century-CE date because it was a response to a work of that period by Caecilius of Calacte, a Sicilian ...
Continue Reading →Probably dating from the first century AD, De Eloutione is an ancient treatise on good writing practices that draws on works by Aristotle and Theophrastus. ...
Continue Reading →Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form.In 1572, Montaigne ...
Continue Reading →Surrealism as a movement has always resisted the efforts of critics to confine it to any static definition–surrealists themselves have always preferred to speak of ...
Continue Reading →Caspar Heinemann is a poet, artist, writer and academia-adjacent independent researcher based in Glasgow and Berlin. His research interests include critical mysticism, gay biosemiotics, illegitimate ...
Continue Reading →The idea of the fourth dimension of space has been of sustained interest to nineteenth-century and Modernist studies since the publication of Linda Dalrymple Henderson’s ...
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