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A life in literature: An interview with Professor Nicholas Royle

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Creative abstract landscape. Interview with Nicholas Royle, who is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and founding director of the Centre for Creative and Critical Thought. Since publishing his first work of criticism – Telepathy and Literature – in 1991, his creative output has been consistently varied and rewarding, blurring any firm conception of form or genre. Royle remains most widely known, perhaps, for his introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, written with Professor Andrew Bennett. The book is a remarkably creative and ever-evolving project which appraises literature through a shifting array of lenses, prompting us to reassess what we ultimately mean by the ’literary’ as distinct from other forms of writing.

Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and founding director of the Centre for Creative and Critical Thought. Since publishing his first work of criticism – Telepathy and Literature – in 1991, his creative output has been consistently varied and rewarding, blurring any firm conception of form or genre. Royle remains most widely known, perhaps, for […]

A pilot volunteer reader program decreases delirium days in critically ill ICU patients

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Delirium is a form of acute brain failure that alters mental status and affects proper memory, emotion, and behavior, developing over hours to days. Between 20-80% of ICU patients develop delirium, depending upon the tools used for diagnosis. Delirium is commonly overlooked because only 25% of delirium patients present with hyperactivity, that is, showing evidence of hallucinations and agitation. More […]