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The Subconscious Shelf - NYTimes.com
The French gastronome Brillat-Savarin began “The Physiology of Taste” (1825) by declaring, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” You are also what you read — or, perhaps, what you own. In my college dorm, a volume of Sartre was casually spread-eagled across the futon when I expected callers.Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot Were Pen Pals - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire
Lee Siegel commemorates a new volume of T.S. Eliot's collected letters by noting a series of exchanges that aren't included in the book: the missive exchanged by Eliot and Groucho Marx, two sharply different men fascinated with each other.
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There are certain points where we can truly bridge the gap between arts and science, and the psychology of characters – whether fictional or non-fictional – is a perfect example. At this event at the Royal Society’s One Culture festival, author Sebastian Faulks and neuropsychologist Uta Frith spoke together about this point where the two worlds of science and art meet.This coming fall, Mark Peterson , a physics professor at Mount Holyoke College, will publish a new book where he makes a rather curious argument: Back in 1588, a young Galileo presented two lectures before the Florentine Academy. And there he laid the groundwork for his theoretical physics when he called into question the accepted measurements of Dante’s hell (as depicted in the Inferno , the great epic poem from 1314).
Physics from Hell: How Dante’s Inferno Inspired Galileo’s Physics | Open Culture
The Anatomy of Influence: Mapping the Labyrinth of Literature | Brain Pickings
Understanding creative influence is essential to understanding remix culture and a centerpiece of combinatorial creativity .The Millions : The Life and Afterlife of Literary Theory: A Syllabus
What is, or was, literary theory?
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Monty Python's Terry Jones crowdsources funding for book (Wired UK)
Harold Bloom on Literary Criticism | FiveBooks | The Browser
Now for the books of others, beginning with a look at the literature of antiquity. Tell us about ER Dodds’s The Greeks and the Irrational . You asked me to list five books that continue to influence the profession.This manuscript-based third edition supersedes all previous versions of Electronic Beowulf.
Electronic Beowulf | British Library Publishing
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I’m currently battling a sinus infection, which has gotten a lot better today, mostly because I went to bed at 7:30 PM last night (before even the baby went to bed).
Shuffling and Muttering: a blog by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Future Of Reading | Wired Science | Wired.com
I think it’s pretty clear that the future of books is digital.Erich Auerbach (November 9, 1892 – October 13, 1957) was a philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature . His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature , a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times. [ edit ] Biography
Erich Auerbach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
We are on the cusp of a reading revolution.
A Little Aloud - Vintage Books
If winter’s here, can birds be far behind? As the days lengthen the cold strengthens, my grandmother is said to have said.