Using the unifying device of a weekend party at Crome, the country house of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wimbush, Huxley creates a sharp satire on the futile isolation of the human ego. Huxley’s protagonist, the poet Denis Stone, observes the… Read More ›
Aldous Huxley
Analysis of Rex Warner’s The Aerodrome
This political allegory predates George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four by seven years, but shares with it a critical view of totalitarian efficiency. The Aerodrome features two contrasting settings, highlighting the crucial differences and quintessential weaknesses of both: the unnamed village represents… Read More ›
Analysis of Aldous Huxley’s The Gioconda Smile
Originally published in the April 1921 issue of The English Review and later included by Aldous Huxley in Mortal Coils (1922), “The Gioconda Smile” is inspired by the story of Harold Greenwood, a man who had been acquitted of poisoning… Read More ›
Science-Fiction Novels and Novelists
The emergence of the “modern” novel in the eighteenth century, with its emphasis on narrative realism and its intimate involvement with the affairs of everyday life, is correlated with a gradual separation between mundane and imaginative fiction, a crucial breaking… Read More ›
Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life
I What is life, and what makes human life unique? With the rise of the life sciences and Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection in the nineteenth century, new answers to these questions were proposed that were deeply at… Read More ›
The Waste Land as a Modernist Text
TS Eliot‘s The Waste Land, which has come to be identified as the representative poem of the Modernist canon, indicates the pervasive sense of disillusionment about the current state of affairs in the modern society, especially post World War Europe,… Read More ›
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