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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,…
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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…
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Literary Bios: William Makepeace Thackeray, the satirist of Vanity Fair
Thackeray was born in Calcutta in 1811, but after the death of his father, who succumbed to fever in 1815,…
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Poetry Analysis: Growing older with poets and verse
I did some research on poems about age and getting older, and found out that most of them are pretty…
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Writing Craft: Defining Procatalepsis
When you start digging into literature, you start finding a lot of Greek words, because the Greeks had a huge…
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Writing Craft: Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs
I, for the life of me, have always struggled with the difference between a homonym, homophone, and a homograph, and…
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Writing Craft: How to develop a writing voice
For this post, I am going to look at what is typically recommended to writers for developing voice in writing,…
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Literary Bios: Saul Bellow, disenfranchised and dangling
The Encyclopedia Britannica states that Bellow was “representative of the Jewish American writers whose works became central to American literature…
Book Reviews
- Mark Twain’s ‘A Connecticut Yankee’: Parental Love
- Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Halloween Tree’: A History of Death
- Book List: World War Z by Max Brooks
- Stephen King’s ‘Fairy Tale’: Book Review and Bildungsroman
