June 2020
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Literary Bios: Gertrude Stein and “The Lost Generation”
When somebody says, “The Lost Generation,” there are immediate visuals culled up from the depths of our mind. For me, it’s something like the ghosts…
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Building Background: The Beat Generation, authors, and their works
I think the first thing that is synonymous with these revolutionary baby boomers is that they grew up during the romantic view of suburbia in…
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Literary Analysis: Jaws, a tale of fear, adventure, and a man-eating shark
At the time Jaws was published, Benchley was an accomplished writer but wasn’t making enough money even though he had been a junior speechwriter for…
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Literary Bios: Peter Benchley, author of the novel Jaws
It’s the summertime, so I thought it would be a good idea to talk about some of my favorite (let’s be honest—everybody’s favorite) summer movies…
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Building Background: Neoclassical literature and its impact (1660-1798)
The era in which this period thrived seems to be somewhere between 1660 and 1798 and features three important sections, that include the Restoration period,…
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Building Background: The Literary Renaissance (1550-1688)
I know this era to be when writing kicked off after years of it being relegated to the Church, and it’s also really impressive to…
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Writing Craft: Reading and writing as a reciprocal process
These days, we know reading and writing go together like peas and carrots, but that was not always the case. In fact, some years ago,…
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Literary Bios: Robert Penn Warren, author of All the Kings Men
At the end of his life, Robert Pen Warren was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet who had contributed much to literature in the way…
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Literary Analysis: Art as subjective or objective
We’ve all heard our friends and family write off artistic criticism as, “Well, all art’s subjective,” and that’s all well and good, but it seems…
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Word of the Week: New Historicism
We’ve been looking at different types of critical examination recently and New Historicism should be added to the mix due to my own critiquing proclivities…
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Word of the Week: New Criticism
New Criticism is a form of “close reading” which allows the critic to examine the text without all the other, um, well, baggage, including its…
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Literary Bios: Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe
Even when I’m feeling like I am on a good row of writing, the thought of writing something that nearly eclipses the Bible or trying…
