Was romanticism ambiguous towards realism? This paper (Wellek, 1961) synthesizes the view of the German romantic poet and philosopher Schlegel about realism: In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant speaks of the "idealism and realism of natural purposes", and Schelling, in his early paper "Vom ...

“Hallo, Eeyore,” they called out cheerfully. “Ah!” said Eeyore. “Lost your way?” “We just came to see you,” said Piglet. “And to see how your house was. Look, Pooh, it's still standing!” “I know,” said Eeyore. “Very odd. Somebody ought to have come down and pushed it over.” “We wondered whether t...

In Slavery in Massachusetts, Thoreau writes: Among measures to be adopted, I would suggest to make as earnest and vigorous an assault on the press as has already been made, and with effect, on the church. The church has much improved within a few years; but the press is almost, without exception...

I only learned recently that Ulysses is the Latin version of the Greek name Odysseus. It made me wonder why Joyce chose it over the Greek for his novel Ulysses. Apparently there's a very prosaic reason which is that this is the name under which Joyce, as a child, first learned about the character...

I'm trying to find a book I read at school when I was about 12. It was about a young black girl who kept having visions where she became her Grandmother at a young age, being trafficked as a slave. Like she was time travelling but specifically becoming this ancestor of hers. There was a scene wit...