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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
Book Reviews
- Book list: Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
- 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
