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Huxley,
Aldous
English novelist
and critic gifted with an acute and far-ranging intelligence. His works
were notable for their elegance, wit, and pessimistic
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Huxley,
Sir Julian (Sorell)
English biologist, philosopher, educator, and author who
greatly influenced the modern development of embryology, systematics, and
studies of behaviour and evolution. |
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Osmond,
Humphry Fortescue
British
psychiatrist (b. July 1, 1917, Surrey, Eng.—d. Feb. 6, 2004, Appleton,
Wis.), introduced writer Aldous Huxley to hallucinogenic drugs,
commenting, “To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of
psychedelic.” Huxley famously described the incident in his book The Doors
of Perception (1954). Working primarily in North America, Osmond examined
schizophrenia ... |
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mysticism
in general, a spiritual quest for hidden truth
or wisdom, the goal of which is union with the divine or sacred (the
transcendent realm). Forms of mysticism are found in all major world
religions, by analogy in the shamanic and other ecstatic practices of
nonliterate cultures, and in secular experience. |
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Assessment
from the Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
article
Dostoyevsky's name
has become synonymous with psychological profundity. For generations, the
depth and contradictoriness of his heroes have made systematic
psychological theories look shallow by comparison. Many theorists (most
notably Freud) have tried to claim Dostoyevsky as a predecessor. His sense
of evil and his love of freedom have made Dostoyevsky especially ...
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Huxley,
Aldous
(1894–1963). The
English writer and critic Aldous Huxley planned to become a doctor, but an
illness that left him partially blind changed those plans. His passion for
science served him well in his literary career, however. His novels,
poems, essays, and critical works all display a keen interest in the
workings of the natural world. He maintained his scientific outlook ...
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noble
savage
The literary
concept of the noble savage—an idealized individual who symbolizes the
innate goodness of one unexposed to civilization and its corrupting
influences—became prominent during the 18th and 19th centuries. The
concept of the noble savage may be traced to ancient Greece and Rome,
however, appearing in the works of Homer, Ovid, Pliny, Horace, and
Virgil.
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Bloomsbury
group
A circle of writers,
philosophers, critics, and artists who met in London's Bloomsbury district
between about 1907 and 1930 became known as the Bloomsbury group. The
participants questioned many accepted ideas of contemporary British
society and discussed aesthetic and philosophical issues in a forum that
mutually inspired their work.
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science
fiction
On Oct. 30, 1938,
the night before Halloween, Orson Welles performed a dramatization of H.G.
Wells's 1898 novel, ‘The War of the Worlds', on his Mercury Theatre on the
Air. Although it was announced at the beginning and middle of the radio
program that the Martian invasion of New Jersey was only fiction,
thousands of listeners panicked. They believed the “news bulletins” ...
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Impact of World War
I
from the
English literature article
World War I cut forever the ties with the past. It brought
discontent and disillusionment. Humankind was plunged into gloom at the
knowledge that “progress” had not saved the world from
war.
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