Teaching Students About Literary Allusion

In literature, an allusion is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or literary work that the author expects the reader to recognize and draw meaning from. Teaching students about literary allusion is an important aspect of literature education as it helps students to better understand the text they are reading, and also emphasizes the interconnections between literary works. The first step in teaching allusion to students is to help them understand what it is. It is crucial fo...

Narcissus has been with us all along - Ancient stories as narcissistic narratives

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Narrating Narcissus - reflecting cognition - Illusion - disillusion - self-cognitio and love as passion in Ovid and beyond

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Letting the Unspoken Speak: A Reading List of Historical Trauma in Fiction

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Gyges ring

Gyges ring From wavelength.ai Plato's ring of Gyges is a concept described in his work "The Republic." According to the story, Gyges, a shepherd, discovers a magical ring that grants him the power of invisibility. With this newfound ability, Gyges is able to commit immoral acts without fear of being caught or punished. The story raises questions about the nature of morality and whether people would act morally if they could avoid the consequences of their actions. It serves as a thought e...

On Not Asking if I should Insert Myself in the Text

There is a passage in Ruth Behar’s book, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that breaks your heart, in which she identifies the ‘most difficult feat of all’ for writers: how to ‘insert our participating-and-observing selves into the story’. It was 1996 and Behar was addressing anthropology researchers who were tasked with developing a rich textual account of the workplaces and communities where they had spent months and years. She made a case for using what she called a ‘personal voice’ in...

From Leir to Lear

From Leir to Lear Shakespeare, literary architect, performs a gut renovation and creates a classic. The execution of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot: Claes Jansz Visscher’s contemporary etching depicts Londoners gazing from rooftops, windows and streets as four Gunpowder plotters are drawn to the site of execution. James Shapiro ’77 is the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature and an eminent Shakespeare specialist: the Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at New Yo...

Origin of Noah’s Ark Story

SEE: https://youtu.be/y2T-QeVY8mUUnveil the enthralling origins of the Biblical flood story in this captivating documentary. Delve into the ancient Mesopotamian flood myths, including the Sumerian flood myth, Atrahasis Epic, and Epic of Gilgamesh, and witness the undeniable connections to the iconic tale of Noah. From shared themes to linguistic correlations, we explore the rich tapestry of these ancient narratives, shedding light on their profound influence on the Genesis flood account.Join ...

No writer can touch sir Walter Scott - Joyce and the Wizard of the North

https://blog.oup.com/2023/06/there-is-no-writer-can-touch-sir-walter-scott-joyce-and-the-wizard-of-the-north/"There is no writer can touch sir Walter Scott": Joyce and the Wizard of the NorthWhile Walter Scott was one of the greatest novelists of nineteenth-century literature, at least in terms of sales, James Joyce was probably the major novelist of the twentieth century in terms of impact and influence. According to Joyce’s brother Stanislaus, the Irish writer "couldn’t stand" the Scot’s wo...

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy - A Grand Synthesis of American Literature

In his 1992 interview with The New York Times, Cormac McCarthy said, "The ugly fact is books are made out of books. The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written." McCarthy’s fourth novel, 1979’s Suttree is such a book, a masterful synthesis of the great literature — particularly American literature — that came before it. And like any masterful synthesis, Suttree points to something new, even as it borrows, lifts, and outright steals from the past. But before we plumb it...

Analysis of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is a novel by Italo Calvino (1923–85) from late in his writing career. Calvino was an Italian fiction writer well known for stories and novels that range in character from fables to neorealist tales. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler incorporates these disparate elements into a single text. The book meditates on the art of storytelling and features a character simply named the Reader as its protagonist. Written largely in the second person, the story begin...

Medieval comedy performance discovered in 15th century manuscript

An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. Raucous texts – mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences to get drunk; and shocking them with slapstick – shed new light on Britain’s famous sense of humour and the role played by minstrels in medieval society. The texts contain the earliest recorded use of ‘red herring’ in English, extremely rare forms of medieval literature, as well as a killer rabbit worthy o...

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Hunters FingerLakes Tattoo

WatsonWisteriaLockheed ScandalDetective ConanHouse of UsherCattleUpdate: BellsUpdate: Huner Biden Finger LakesI accept leads on several platforms but this week I received not just leads but 2 sets of connected patterns as a lead! I find patterns like they found every week and what I am seeing now proves readers are getting better at this all the time! As you’ll see by my decode of their findings… stuff like this unlocks a lot! We are rapidly approaching the full picture!The first one involves...

Monstrousness Lurking Inside Motherhood

English teachers, myself included, like to correct people who conflate Dr. Frankenstein with his monster, but recently I’ve started to consider the possibility that the misnomer speaks to a fundamental equation of artists with monsters. Jenny Ofill introduced the term "art monster" in her novel Dept. of Speculation. Shortly after having her first child, the novel’s nameless narrator reflects on the path she might have taken, were it not for motherhood: My plan was to never get married. ...

Brandon D. Smith, The Trinity in the Book of Revelation

Smith, Brandon D. The Trinity in the Book of Revelation: Seeing Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in John’s Apocalypse. Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture; Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2022. 221 pp. Pb; $35. Link to IVP Academic Brandon D. Smith is assistant professor of theology and New Testament at Cedarville University. He is also a co-founder of the Center for Baptist Renewal and host of the Church Grammar podcast. The Trinity in Revelation is a "somewhat condensed version"...

Monotreme Dreams

What literature do we study from the 1990s?

What literature do we study from the 1990s?SourceURL: https://pudding.cool/2023/01/lit-canon/ Skip to main content The Pudding Decade ’80s ’90s ’00s Genre Fiction Non-fiction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 What literature do we study from the 1990s? Swipe Right The first Harry Potter book was published 25 years ago. I wonder if it will go the way of To Kill a Mockingbird or The Great Gatsby: a literary classic that’s required reading for American students. If Harry Potter ends up on English 101 syllab...

The minor literatures, the small spaces, the little arts, these are the things of which one makes a literary life

To celebrate the publication of her debut book, We the Parasites, a "dazzlingly erudite disquisition on the erotics of criticism" (Lauren Elkin), Minor Lits brought together author A.V. Marraccini, and artist Isabella Streffen for a discussion of desire, referentiality, the state of contemporary art criticism, and much more. The conversation took place over Zoom at the beginning of January. Isabella Streffen: In the excerpt shared earlier this week, you talk about a heist, and, later, ...

A Rose for Emily - Characters

‘A Rose for Emily’ by William Faulkner contains some memorable characters besides Emily herself. Even the narrator is a curious creation and deserving of further discussion, since Faulkner does some interesting things with narrative in his short story. Let’s take a closer look at the characters in ‘A Rose for Emily’, both great and small, central and peripheral, and explore their significance to the overall story, as well as the part they play in its plot. The Narrator The n...

Harrisons Art of Generosity - Poetics and Ecology

The Harrisons’ Art of Generosity: Poetics and EcologyMonica ManolescuThis article offers a literary perspective on Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison’s discourses, texts, stories and voices, and the ways in which they act in performative ways, creating an art of doing things with words. I would like to argue that this performativity is the expression of a strong commitment to the present moment that Camus qualified as "generosity" and that defines the models of authorship, agency, art-m...

Dickens Fellowship Annual Conference

updated:  Wednesday, January 11, 2023 - 4:55pm full name / name of organization:  Emily Bell / Dickens Fellowship contact email:  E.J.L.Bell@leeds.ac.uk categories (up to 5):  cultural studies and historical approaches graduate conferences international conferences popular culture victorian ...

Some brief reflections on canon and genius

Among the many bees in my professional bonnet is the issue of canon formation: how some works become singled out as being of particular value and worthy of preservation and perpetuation through subsequent generations. The mechanisms of canon formations are usually shared by whatever type of art we are talking about, whether it is pictorial art, the art of writing, or the art of music. There are several factors that can contribute to a work's entry into a given canon, and there are also severa...

Battles of the Sexes - Duels between Women and Men in 1400s *Fechtbücher*

Collections / ImagesBattles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher Illustration from a 1467 manuscript of Hans Talhoffer's fight book. Around the year 1430, illustrated German-language manuscripts began to depict the art of Zweikampf: dueling, or, literally, a battle of two. Known as "fight books" (Fechtbücher), these manuals developed out of a tradition founded by the semi-mythic Johannes Liechtenauer, a fencing instructor whose biography remains almost completel...

Narrators Everywhere

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born [...] and all that David Copperfield kind of crap [...].That’s Holden Caufield, getting us started in The Catcher in the Rye. Holden tells the story. But in another way, the story in Catcher is told by its author, J. D. Salinger; who, conspiracy theories aside, is not himself Holden Caufield. To name the difference, Salinger is the author, while Holden is the story’s "internal narrator," a fa...

Fairytale discourse paper with markups by Z

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