Who wrote, “Hell is—other people”?
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “Hell is—other people” in his existential play No Exit (1944).
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Who coined the term “willing suspension of disbelief”?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the term “willing suspension of disbelief” in his critical treatise Biographia Literaria (1817). Coleridge used the term to refer to the “poetic faith” of a reader in accepting imaginary elements in a literary work.
Who is the central figure in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939)?
The main character in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is Humphrey Chimpden Ear-wicker, a pubkeeper in Dublin who is trying to live down an undisclosed crime he committed against a young woman (or man) in the park. Earwicker is also known as Here Comes Everybody and Haveth Childer Everywhere, and is linked with Adam, Jesus Christ,…
What is “logocentrism”?
Logocentrism is the habit of assigning truth to words. Deconstructionists seek to combat logocentrism by deconstructing, or taking apart, texts: exposing hidden presuppositions; revealing texts as essentially indeterminate and unreadable.
Who said, “A poem should not mean/But be”?
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) said, “A poem should not mean/But be” in Ars Poetica.
How many years of age separated Will and Ariel Durant?
Will Durant was twelve years older than Ariel Durant. The authors of the multivolume series The Story of Civilization (1935-67) were married in New York City in 1913, when he was twenty-seven and she was fifteen.
In what Shakespeare play does a character say, “Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well”?
This quote is in none of Shakespeare’s plays. In Hamlet, Act V, Scene 3, Hamlet says, “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.” For some reason the incorrect version is the one most people remember.