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Eight of Literature’s Most Powerful Inventions—and the Neuroscience Behind How They Work | Innovation | Smithsonian Magazine
These reoccuring story elements have proven effects on our imagination, our emotions and other parts of our psyche By Angus Fletcher, smithsonianmag.comMarch 10, 2021 Shortly after 335 B.C., within a newly built library tucked just east of Athens’ limestone city walls, a free-thinking Greek polymath by the name of Aristotle gathered up an armful of…
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MH Abrams, Norton anthology founder, influential critic, dead at age 102 | Books | The Guardian
MH Abrams, an esteemed critic and teacher who helped shape the modern literary canon as founding editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and joined the elite himself by writing one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed works of criticism, has died. He was 102. Abrams’ death was confirmed on Wednesday by the president…
