In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on a vast array of source material, from philosophy and psychoanalysis to science and art. Yet scholars have largely ...
Continue Reading โThe Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation ...
Continue Reading โIn her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates โdecreationโโan activity described by Simone Weil as โundoing the creature in usโโan undoing of self. ...
Continue Reading โLeonora Carrington was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of ...
Continue Reading โย The legend of Tristan and Isolde — the archetypal narrative about the turbulent effects of all-consuming, passionate love — achieved its most complete and ...
Continue Reading โย At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty ...
Continue Reading โOne of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, ...
Continue Reading โThe greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer ...
Continue Reading โSir Gawain and the Green Knight is probably the most skillfuly told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west ...
Continue Reading โIt may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English ...
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