Oliver Tearle

As well as taking in the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, "The Secret Library "brings to light more neglected items among the bookshelves of the world. While discussing Darwin s groundbreaking "On the Origin of Species," we ll learn why that bestseller was outsold in Darwin s own lifetime by his book on earthworms, and how Edgar Allan Poe s biggest-selling title was a book on mollusks. We ll learn about the forgotten Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens, how Sherlock Holmes s famous illustrator got the job because of a clerical error, and how the word 'trilby" taken from a Victorian novel was originally applied to people s feet before it became the name of a hat. "The Secret Library "brings these little-known stories to light, exploring the intersection between books of all kinds and the history of the Western world over 3,000 years."

The Secret Library

Gizemli Kütüphane

T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) was the author of a small number of poems and some genuinely innovative critical and philosophical writings. From this modest output his influence on later writers was considerable: T. S. Eliot described his poems as 'beautiful' and Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis were both inspired by his work. T.E. Hulme and Modernism explores his impact on key modernist figures, and also shows where this influence has been misplaced or misinterpreted. Oliver Tearle also here suggests that Hulme's significance goes beyond his influence on modernism, and that his work provides new ways of thinking about creative and critical writing in the 21st century. What is poetry? What is the purpose of literary criticism? And how might the strange phenomenon of the fragment offer new ways of theorising such issues? In exploring these and other important matters this book pushes at the boundaries of literary criticism and of writing itself.

T.E. Hulme and Modernism

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the form of the modernist long poem. Beginning with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Oliver Tearle reads that most famous example of the genre in comparison with lesser known long poems, such as Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem, Richard Aldington's A Fool I' the Forest and Nancy Cunard's Parallax. As well as presenting a new history of this neglected genre, the book examines the ways in which the modernist long poem represented the seminal literary form for grappling with the crises of European modernity in the wake of World War I.

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem

A contemporary modernist long poem about the year 2020.

The Tesserae

Focusing on a series of neologisms from writing of the period, such as 'handconscience', 'figmentary' & 'aftersense', & moving between a number of disciplines including literature, criticism, science, psychoanalysis & linguistics, this text endeavours to answer a number of questions, ranging from the urgent to the downright bizarre.

Hallucination and Literature, 1880-1914

Bewilderments of Vision

Through close readings, this book explores T.E. Hulme's influence on key Modernist writers and how he might offer a new model of creative-critical practice.

What caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent? How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world? Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales? A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writers' haunts and the surprising places that inspired some of our favourite fictional locations. We'll learn why Thomas Hardy was buried twice, how a librarian in Manchester invented the thesaurus as a means of coping with depression, and why Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 during the Second World War. The map of Britain that emerges is one dotted with interesting literary stories and bookish curiosities.

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