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...
Frankenstein: Between Two Worlds
Mary Shelley’s great novel is not a commentary on the Industrial Revolution, nor is it a simple retelling of the myth of Prometheus. It is far more original than...
Decadentismo, simbolismo e outras tendências literárias finisseculares
Fonte: Plataforma 9, 18-10-2020
Ementa: Na literatura ocidental, o final do século XIX foi caracterizado pela proliferação de movimentos literários ou propostas de renovação estética. O esgotamento do realismo na...
100 ANOS DE “CLEPSYDRA”, de Camilo Pessanha
Foi em 1920, há precisamente um século, que Ana de Castro Osório viria a publicar, ainda durante a vida do autor, aquele que é o único livro de poesia...
Believing in Literature
Source: London Review of Books AUGUST 3, 2020
THE RELATION BETWEEN belief and making is a troubled one. Anybody who has ever banged their fists on the table in an...
A Little Fellow with a Big Head
Source: Lit Hub
By Margaret Jull Costa July 27, 2020
Fernando Pessoa’s life divides neatly into three periods. In a letter to the British Journal of Astrology dated February 8, 1918, he wrote...
Alphonsus de Guimaraens Filho
Andreia Donadon Leal I Mestre em Literatura pela UFV
Fonte: Mariana -- Portal da Cidade. Postado em 25/07/2020 às 17:00 | Atualizado em 25/07/2020 às 16:58
Filho do grande poeta simbolista Alphonsus de...
On Celtic Storytelling, From the Bardic to the Mythic
Martin Shaw on Growing Up Christian with a Pagan Underbelly
By Martin Shaw
Source: Lit Hub July 17, 2020
I grew up in a Christian house with a pagan underbelly, and found the...
Edward Gorey’s Designed Book Covers for Classic Novels: See His Ironic-Gothic Take on Dickens,...
Source: Open Culture August 17th, 2020
Twenty years after his death, it's cooler than ever to like Edward Gorey. This is evidenced not just by the frequent posting of his intensively...
Viewing Literature as a Lab for Community Ethics
Source: Lit Hub July 17, 2020
Maren Tova Linett on the Way We Value Human and Nonhuman Lives
By Maren Tova Linett
July 17, 2020
We are all bioethicists now. The COVID-19 pandemic has led...