Results for: books tagged ‘Academia’
Jumpers: Tom Stoppard
The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In ... More
The Intellectuals and the Masses: John Carey
Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity ... More
Inventions of the March Hare: T. S. Eliot
A few months before The Waste Land was published in 1922, the manuscript was given by Eliot to his benefactor John Quinn. At the same time he sold Quinn a ... More
The Invention of Love: Tom Stoppard
It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which ... More
Good Will Hunting: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
Wildly charismatic, impossibly brilliant, totally rebellious - Will Hunting is a mathematical genius who lives on the fringes of society, refusing to accept the talent that he has for maths ... More
Wilson: David Mamet
A literary jeu d'esprit, a modern-day Tristram Shandy, a hilarious satire on false scholarship, Wilson is David Mamet at his best and most mischievous. When the internet - and the ... More
The Trick of It: Michael Frayn
He knows everything about her before they meet; more about her nine novels than she does herself. He has devoted his life to studying and teaching them and yet he ... More
Spinning into Butter: Rebecca Gilman
When clearly racist, but anonymous, letters start appearing on the door of one of the college's few African American students, Sarah, the liberal dean of students, is forced to question ... More
The Snowflake Constant: Peter Stephan Jungk
Giacopo Tigor, eponymous hero of Peter Stephan Jungk's extraordinary novel, is a professor of mathematics, a proponent of Euclidian geometry reeling from a succession of intellectual defeats sustained at the ... More
The Redress of Poetry: Seamus Heaney
These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress ... More
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