Showing results for "Afterlife" in Literary History & Criticism

Brownell Landrum, author of the We Meet Again trilogy and other metaphysical books, presents the Life is a Trip podcast with the purpose of showcasing writers from all over the world to share their stories, whether fictional or factual, about reincarnation, past life, between lives and other metaphysical and spiritual topics. If you like this podcast, please feel free to leave us a review! Enjoy! #Spiritual #Reincarnation #Pastlife #pastlives #afterlife #betweenlife #NDE #LifesJourneyGroup

This is an audiobook about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This an audiobook about a poet, W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history because he left.

Nora Berend uncovers how el Cid has been transformed across the centuries, confronting the gulf between truth and legend and examining how a military adventurer became a hero to people on opposite ends of the political spectrum. The story of the Cid forces us to confront what makes us human. What is it about this man that appeals to us? And why do we transform the most unsuitable people into heroes?

In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published in the United States to immediate controversy and best-sellerdom. More than 60 years later, this phenomenal novel generates as much buzz as it did when originally published. Central to countless issues at the forefront of our national discourse - art and politics, race and whiteness, gender and power, sexual trauma - Lolita lives on, in an afterlife as blinding as a supernova.

Join creator Jon Lock for a deep dive into the history of Afterlife Inc. - a comic (and now a podcast) you can believe in.