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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…
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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…
