readings: Free English Literature Notes

THE EVOLUTION OF CINEMA

Cinema did not appear overnight. It grew out of three earlier developments: the invention of the camera, the rise of photography as a modern art form, and a growing fascination with moving images....

Introduction 

Lucky Jim is considered the first British campus novel, setting a trend for fiction that satirises the quirks and policies of academic life. The narrative follows Jim Dixon, a lecturer at a provincial university who must navigate professi...

Swimming Chenango Lake by Charles Tomlinson

Winter will bar the swimmer soon.

  He reads the water’s autumnal hesitations

A wealth of ways: it is jarred,

It is astir already despite it...