When Dracula Author Bram Stoker Wrote a Gushing Fan Letter to Walt Whitman (1870)
Source: Open Culture
Every artist starts out as a fan, and in general we see the marks of early fandom on their mature work. The best, after all—as figures from...
I Want Only to Be a Worn-Down Stone
I want only to be a worn-down stone
on the ruins of time,
a dolmen
raised above this forsaken graveyard’s
terrain.
( Alain Mabanckou )
Source: The Paris Review Issue no. 229 (Summer 2019)
Gothic Novel
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gothic novel, European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries.
Called Gothic because its imaginative...
The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins
Simon Bacon@baconetti Lovely start to 2022…this monster is out and I have 2 articles in it. Big congratulations to @CliveBloom and all the fabulous authors involved!
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Albert Camus and the problem of absurdity
Albert Camus and the problem of absurdity
Source: OUP Philosophy
The OUP Philosophy list boasts cutting-edge scholarship including monographs handbooks and textbooks - suitable for graduate and undergraduate use, as well...
Der Tod | Rainer Maria Rilke
Da steht der Tod, ein bläulicher Absud
in einer Tasse ohne Untersatz.
Ein wunderlicher Platz für eine Tasse:
steht auf dem Rücken einer Hand. Ganz gut
erkennt man noch an dem glasierten Schwung
den...
The Later Romantics
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Happy 185th wedding anniversary to Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm.
Source: Lit Hub, September 22, 2020
By Dan Sheehan
On this day in 1835, history’s most macabre literary lovebirds ghouled their way to Baltimore City Hall to file for a marriage...