Oliver Tearle explore les paysages de l'histoire et de la théorie littéraires, avec une passion particulière pour le modernisme et la littérature du XXe siècle. Son travail interroge souvent des sujets complexes, tels que l'hallucination dans les contextes littéraires, révélant des aperçus fascinants sur la psyché humaine à travers des œuvres écrites. L'approche de Tearle est à la fois analytique et accessible, permettant aux lecteurs de mieux comprendre la signification et l'impact des textes littéraires. Son expertise dans les études de genre et l'écriture créative enrichit encore sa perspective sur divers points de vue littéraires.
An alternative history of Western civilization told through its most emblematic invention, the book. As well as taking in the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, The Secret Library uncovers more neglected works, exploring the intersection between books of all kinds and the history of the Western world.
The Secret Library is a fascinating tour of Western history through the medium of its most emblematic invention – the book.
Hallucination was always the ghost storys elephant in the room. Even before the vogue for psychical research and spiritualism began to influence writers at the end of the nineteenth century, tales of horror and the supernatural, of ghosts and demons, had been haunted by the possibility of some grand deception by the senses. But what is ...