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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…
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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, he moved back to England…
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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 bitter or sad, but I…
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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 impact on language for multiple…
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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 I don’t know how much…
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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, and then I will provide…
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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 after World War II.”
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Folklore: What are the differences between myths, legends, and folklore?
Zeus, The Headless Horseman, Paul Bunyan, and Bigfoot all share some commonalities; clearly, there are supernatural and fantastical elements in each of their stories. But…
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Literary Bios: Emile Zola and “The Human Beast”
Zola was a French novelist and critic who was certainly politically minded and was a naturalist thinker.
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Building Background: Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737
While Fielding’s work wasn’t solely responsible for the Theatrical Licensing Act of 1737, it was plays like this that caused the upper crust of the…
