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One review compared Incandescence to "a not particularly enthralling lecture on the process of scientific discovery, combined with the physics of a black hole". [4] Another reviewer described much of this criticism as "trite received opinion" and said the book had "hints of greatness and pleasing moments" but its structure was "a failed literary experiment" and ultimately rather dull.
In his book Enemies of the Enlightenment (2001), historian Darrin McMahon extends the Counter-Enlightenment back to pre-Revolutionary France and down to the level of "Grub Street". McMahon focuses on the early opponents to the Enlightenment in France, unearthing a long-forgotten " Grub Street " literature in the late 18th and early 19th ...
Several attempts to define the neologism [3] grimdark have been made: . Adam Roberts described it as fiction "where nobody is honourable and Might is Right", and as "the standard way of referring to fantasies that turn their backs on the more uplifting, Pre-Raphaelite visions of idealized medievaliana, and instead stress how nasty, brutish, short and, er, dark life back then 'really' was".
You could always create your own book covers out of craft paper, just like you did your sixth-grade textbooks. It looks just as sleek, only it’s way more functional for day-to-day use.
Marina Evelyn Keegan (October 25, 1989 – May 26, 2012) [1] was an American author, playwright, and journalist. She is best known for her essay "The Opposite of Loneliness," [2] which went viral and was viewed over 1.4 million times in 98 countries after her death in a car crash while traveling home as a passenger just five days after she graduated magna cum laude from Yale University.
Hopepunk describes works such as books, movies, and television shows, that reveal hope in the face of challenges and act as a counter to pessimism. [7] Scholar Elin Kelsey describes it as "a narrative of positive resistance" and contrasts it with noblebright , which takes as its premise that not only are there good fights worth fighting, but ...
The characters in minimalist stories and novels tend to be unexceptional. Generally, the short stories are "slice of life" stories. Minimalism, the opposite of maximalism, is a representation of only the most basic and necessary pieces, specific by economy with words. Minimalist authors hesitate to use adjectives, adverbs, or meaningless details.
A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1959.Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work.