Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Explained
Here the description from YouTube: Published on May 22, 2013 Adam McLean analyses and explains this important painting by Hieronymus Bosch in great detail in a series of four videos lasting for a...
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It’s the singer, not the song. ―M Jagger, K Richards Personally I’ve never given birth and I don’t expect to do so. For this reason I’m not one to presume to compare writing to parturition. A better...
View ArticleSecond thoughts on literature and its criticism.
Twitter interests me in how it mirrors the global collective unconscious. Every tweet is like the product of a single neuron’s discharge, the instantaneous crystallization of deeper quasi-awareness...
View ArticleFirst thoughts on literature and its criticism.
It took me a while, I admit, to grasp the importance of Stephen Dedalus‘ contemplations concerning Aristotelian aesthetics in Chapter 5 of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Perhaps the keystone...
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