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“cloudesley berereton”

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  • Laughter: an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

    by Henri Bergson ...
    Translated by Cloudesley Berereton, Fred Rothwell ...
    According to Wikipedia: "In the idiosyncratic Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, Bergson develops a theory not of laughter itself, but of how laughter can be provoked (see his objection to Delage, published in the 23rd edition of the essay). He describes the process of laughter (refusing to give a conceptual definition which would not approach its reality), used in particular by ... Read more

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  • Beyond Good and Evil

    by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE ...
    In the book “Beyond Good and Evil”, Nietzsche accused past philosophers of accusing the founding of great metaphysical systems on the belief that good man is the opposite of the wicked, instead of a different expression of the same basic impulses they find more direct expression in the wicked man. Work moves in the kingdom “beyond good and evil”in the sense of leaving behind the traditional ... Read more

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  • Either/Or

    A Fragment of Life

    by Alastair Hannay, Søren Kierkegaard ...
    Translated by Alastair Hannay ...
    In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A ... Read more

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  • Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe

    Poems Tales Criticism

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    Series series Perennial Classics
    The classic poems and spine-tingling stories of an American gothic master collected in one volumeOf all the American writers, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe remains the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill.Born in Boston ... Read more

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  • In Vino Veritas

    by Soren Kierkegaard ...
    It was on one of the last days in July, at ten o'clock in the evening, when the participants in that banquet assembled together. Date and year I have forgotten; indeed this would be interesting only to one's memory of details: and not to one's recollection of the contents of what experience. The spirit of the occasion and whatever impressions are recorded in one's mind under that heading, concerns ... Read more

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  • Selected Tales

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization ... Read more

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  • An Experiment in Criticism

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that "good reading," like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of entering fully into the ... Read more

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  • Home Education

    by Charlotte Mason ...
    Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature, handling natural objects, and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, ... Read more

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  • Practical Criticism - A Study Of Literary Judgment

    by I. A. Richards ...
    I have set three aims before me in constructing this book. First, to introduce a new kind of documentation to those who are interested in the contemporary state of culture whether as critics, as philosophers, as teachers, as psychologists, or merely as curious persons. Secondly, to provide a new technique for those who wish to discover for themselves what they think and feel about poetry (and ... Read more

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  • Principles of Literary Criticism

    by I.A. Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that became known as the 'New Criticism'. Highly controversial when first published, Principles of ... Read more

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  • The Art of Happiness

    by John Cowper Powys ...
    'It is not our struggle to be happy that is mistaken; it is our false idea that we can find happiness anywhere but in ourselves... happiness does not depend on outward things. It is born of the mind, it is nourished by the mind, it is what rises, like breath in a frosty air, from the mind's wrestling with its fate...'The Art of Happiness (first published in 1935) belongs to John Cowper Powys's ... Read more

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  • The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories

    by Edgar Poe ...
    Series series World Classics
    "The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories" by Edgar Allan Poe is a riveting collection of dark tales. The titular story delves into the mind of a murderer tormented by guilt. "The Fall of the House of Usher" explores a decaying mansion's eerie atmosphere, while "The Pit and the Pendulum" traps a victim in a torturous nightmare. Poe's narratives traverse madness, horror, and the macabre, offering ... Read more

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