Word: fancifulism
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As these conveniences accumulate, one begins to wonder whether machines will eventually permit students to learn at home instead of going to the expense of living and attending courses on a university campus. If so, technology will not merely eliminate drudgery; it will save substantial sums by removing the need...
Those who pick up this allusion to fanciful old tales may move to the head of the class. Lodge sets his swelling cast of characters into frantic motion across what only looks like the contemporary world; in truth, they move through enchanted old paths out of Ariosto, Spenser and the...
Broderick does a good job ogling Pfeitter "the face of love itself"), but like a good champion in training suppresson his boyish fantasies out of respect for Navarre. After some is needed for more important things, like breaking the evil spell that turns Navarre into a wolf each night and...
"WAS ROMANTICISM ITSELF anything other than an Oriental eruption of the intellect?" he boldly asks. And yet, Schwab admits that the relationship between the two influences was "less a local and temporary one than an essential one." Above all, he attempts to dispel the notion that the Oriental impact on...
The union of Leda and the swan (a.k.a. Zeus) once caused mankind some problems, including the Trojan War. If Fevvers is truly a second coming, what upheavals lie in wait for the imminent 20th century? Author Angela Carter, 44, keeps this question twirling throughout Nights at the Circus, her eighth...