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Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"

...learn a lot from his unornamented style and intriguing titles. When you start reading something he has written, you immediately relax, knowing you are in the hands of a master storyteller. His narrative sweeps you away into another world without drawing attention to itself. I feel about Dr. Sacks as I do about all great non-fiction writers: I admire at his abilities, I am...
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A parasocial Valentine's letter
History & The Arts

A parasocial Valentine's letter

...fictional characters, then be sure to check out OpenLearn’s free, open access courses ‘What happens to you when you read?’ and ‘Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains’. Catherine Earnshaw Wuthering Heights Haworth Moor West Yorkshire BD22 9QS My dearest Cathy, I write, as usual, as I sit by the fireside, your book open in front...
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The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: illustrate how cities can be represented as dangerous places to live give examples of the place of crime in representations of cities...The problem with crime: 1 The problem with crime: Glasgow - Sean Damer examines the problem of crime in relation to Glasgow. The audio programme was recorded in 2001....
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Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...learn of Penelope’s loyalty towards her absent husband and her repulsion of the suitors. Even in Euripides, though, we learn of the importance of marriage unions between Greeks and, in particular, aristocratic citizen Greek families. The importance of lineage and female virtue forms a central feature of Jason’s union with the King of Corinth’s daughter in Medea, for...
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Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...fiction. No exaggeration whatsoever: the book was published, after several years of publisher hunting, in 1920; its title is The Mysterious Affair at Styles; its brilliant fictional detective is called Hercule Poirot and its author (30 years old at time of publication) is named Agatha Christie. Christie would go on to write about 65 detective novels and some 14 short...
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The Mill on the Floss
History & The Arts

The Mill on the Floss

...fictions most powerful female protagonists. The life of Eliot herself shaped the book but another powerful influence on Eliot’s work was of the German writer Goethe. Eliot’s only surviving hand-written manuscript resides in the British Library. It reveals a strikingly neat set of volumes with little corrections except from subtle indications in the author’s...
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A reader's guide to Cold Comfort Farm
Health, Sports & Psychology

A reader's guide to Cold Comfort Farm

...Fiction’ - had run its course and offered itself to parody. Writers such as Mary Webb irritated her, so she offered an alternative vision of country living. Stock characters – the religious bigot, the overbearing matriarch, the local Lothario etc. – were reinvented. There are passages which mock the style of D.H. Lawrence: note, for example, the characters Mr Mybug...
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Urbanism in Blade Runner
Science, Maths & Technology

Urbanism in Blade Runner

...fiction classic, you could read Blade Runner as a movie about town planning. No, really. Let Ryan Schleeter explain...It’s not every day that Harrison Ford features in discussions about urban planning, but for the second time on TheCityFix, Han Solo née Indiana Jones née Rick Deckard is at the center of futuristic visions for urban design. Ford plays the main...
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