The book is organized into 25 daily readings, and postulates that by focusing our attention on certain ways of thinking, we can become a more critical thinker, which in turn helps us “observe, monitor, analyze, assess, and reconstruct” our thinking, which can help us live better lives.
There is a crying need for an accessible, comprehensive guide to John Milton for the thousands of students who make their way through his poetry every year on literary survey and seventeenth century literature courses. Where many previous guides have dragged their way through Paradise Lost Richard Bradford brings Milton to life with an overview of his life, contexts, work and the relationship between these, and of the main critical issues surrounding his work.
Without doubt the most important work on literary criticism that has emerged out of the tradition of Marxist philosophy and social theory since the 19th century.
This is the result of an ongoing project to collect and distribute the
most obscure and rare words in the English language (such as aprosexia, diurnation, galeanthropy, nidor or symmetrophobia).
It also contains a few words which do not have equivalent words in
English. This version of the dictionary contains 2103 words, though it
is constantly growing.