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Tag Archives: Calvino
The Avant-Garde is an Old Man!
Every writer aspiring to break new literary ground has been rattled by that old chestnut from Ecclesiastes: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. And yet … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Australian Literature, British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature
Tagged 1920s, 1950s, 19th century france, 20th Century Literature, Adorno, Apollinaire, Aragon, Artaud, avant garde, beat generation, Beats, Benjamin, books., Breton, Brion Gysin, Calvino, Charles Baudelaire, Chekhov, Clement Greenberg, Conrad, Corso, Cryptogram, dada, DH Lawrence, Dreamscape, Dujardin, Ecclesiastes, Edgar Allan Poe, experimental literature, Ezra Pound, Faulkner, fiction, Frankfurt School, Free Association, Freud, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Ginsberg, Hamsun, Heine, Henry James, Holderlin, Horkheimer, Hybridity, Interior Monologue, Joyce, Kerouac, Kitsch, Lamantia, Laurence Stern, Lipogram, Literature, Lost Generation, Magic Realism, Magic Surrealism, Mansfield, Novalis, Novels, Oscar Wilde, Oulipo, palindrome, Perec, Peter Burger, poetry, Post Modernism, post modernity, post-modern, post-structuralism, Prose, prose and poetry, prose poem, Prose poetry, Proust, Quenau, Renato Poggioli, Rosalind Krauss, Soupault, Stream of Consciousness, Surrealism, TS Eliot, Vanguard, William Burroughs, William James, Woolf, writing
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Into the Mythopoeia…
As we eagerly await the new edition of The Magical World of the Inklings by Gareth Knight, let’s have a look at other great mythopoeic works of literature. Since the 6th Century tales of Phereydes of Syros, the world of … Continue reading
Posted in Recommended reads
Tagged Borges, C.S. Lewis, Calvino, Fantasy, fiction, mythopoeia, novel, Tolkien
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