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Toni Morrison’s Beloved
What does Beloved represent to her mother, Sethe? Why is Beloved finally “exorcised”? In Toni Morrison‘s Beloved, Sethe is haunted by Beloved because she is her past and she cannot let her go. … more →
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My Ultimate Reading Challenge - The Reading List for My PhD Candidacy Examinations
wrote 3 days ago: Part of the requirements for the doctoral degree in English at the University of Notre Dame are writ … more →
The Dark Soil of Georgia: Cane
wrote 1 week ago: I had read some of Jean Toomer’s stories and poetry in a graduate course on cultures and modernism i … more →
The Grapes of Wrath
wrote 1 week ago: (First edition cover. Found on en.wikipedia.org) John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel, a Pulitzer prize … more →
Short and Sweet: Train Dreams
wrote 2 months ago: J has been bugging me to read this one for a while. He purchased it for my birthday and I think this … more →
Vietnam War Stories and So Much More: The Things They Carried
wrote 2 months ago: I was skeptical about reading Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried even though it came … more →
Joseph Noble on Skylight Press
wrote 2 months ago: The Bay Area has always been a hot-bed for experimental poetry, from the Beats and the famous Six Ga … more →
Cetology 101: Moby Dick
wrote 4 months ago: Rather than try and summarize or review a 600+ page tome in this short review, I’m going to talk abo … more →
Childhood in all its pain and glory: We the Animals
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wrote 4 months ago: It’s done! The first book of 2013 has now been read and I’ve included a short review bel … more →
How might we interpret Sylvia Plath’s symbolic portrayal of a father figure in ‘Daddy’
wrote 5 months ago: Sylvia Plath throughout Daddy employs a range of symbolism in order to create a persona through whic … more →
The Yellow Wallpaper
wrote 5 months ago: Hello Noble Followers! As my last semester of college classes draws to a close, I spend more time co … more →
In Defence of Poesy: A Skylight Selection
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Skylight Fiction for the Holidaze?
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A View of the Woods (short story)
wrote 5 months ago: A View of the Woods by Flannery O’Connor The week before, Mary Fortune and the old man had spe … more →
Key words for American Literature
wrote 6 months ago: Abolitionism Active movement to end slavery in the U.S. North before the Civil War in the 1860s. All … more →
William Faulkner As A Novelist
wrote 6 months ago: SHUAIB ASGHAR … more →
Ernest Hemingway As A Novelist
wrote 6 months ago: SHUAIB ASGHAR GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEG DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH HARO … more →
Guest Blog by Gordon Strong: British involvement in the American Civil War
wrote 6 months ago: Many, including a great proportion of Americans, are ignorant of the motives behind the Civil War. T … more →
Shortlist.com: The 40 Coolest Characters in Literature
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wrote 6 months ago: Shortlist.com has recently compiled their list of the 40 Coolest Characters in Literature. I’v … more →
American Literature: R.W. Emerson
wrote 7 months ago: The title of my post pretty much sums up the whole story. The American Scholar is the Phi Beta Kappa … more →
