Oliver Tearle se adentra en los paisajes de la historia y la teoría literaria, con una pasión particular por explorar el modernismo y la literatura del siglo XX. Su trabajo a menudo interroga temas complejos, como la alucinación en contextos literarios, descubriendo perspectivas fascinantes sobre la psique humana a través de obras escritas. El enfoque de Tearle es tanto analítico como accesible, permitiendo a los lectores obtener una comprensión más profunda de la importancia y el impacto de los textos literarios. Su experiencia en estudios de género y escritura creativa enriquece aún más su perspectiva sobre diversos puntos de vista literarios.
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 ...