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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…
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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…
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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…
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Building Background: The Harlem Renaissance, degradation and inspiration
The Harlem Renaissance was a period between 1910 and the mid-1930s that saw a large amount of Blacks generating art…
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
