Category: Literature
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Howl Against Society
Read more: Howl Against SocietyNowadays subcultures aren’t as exclusive as they used to be. What I mean by this is that everybody is connected through the internet and through that, subcultures borrow from others. Music, clothing and style, among others, are easily borrowed because influences are readily available through the internet, which makes it easier for people to…
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If William Shakespeare Got Feedback from Some Guy at a Creative Writing Workshop
Read more: If William Shakespeare Got Feedback from Some Guy at a Creative Writing WorkshopA few weeks ago I came across a great Buzzfeed post from Shannon Reed called “If Jane Austen got feedback from some guy in a writing workshop”, which I genuinely loved. So in honour of the 400th anniversary of his death, I decided to write my own version featuring the paragon of English literature,…
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Behind the Classic 3: Marital Intimacy and Women’s Rights in Jude the Obscure
Read more: Behind the Classic 3: Marital Intimacy and Women’s Rights in Jude the ObscureThis instalment of the Behind the Classic series looks at the women’s rights movement of the nineteenth century that forms the political backdrop of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. More specifically, it will discuss the issue of sex – or, to speak in more appropriate, Victorian terms – “conjugal rights” and a woman’s right to…
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Pulp Fiction: I Read Crap and I Struggle with Literature. Shoot Me.
Read more: Pulp Fiction: I Read Crap and I Struggle with Literature. Shoot Me.Forgive me, Dante, for I am a sinner. I confess. Do not judge me too harshly, oh Joyce, Tolstoy, Waugh, Saramago, and other greats that collect my dust instead of my readership. I mean well. I feel genuine pleasure and admiration when I muster the will and energy to read your famous words, but that…
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Love, Identity and Shakespeare: Solomon vs. the Foggers and Facilitators
Read more: Love, Identity and Shakespeare: Solomon vs. the Foggers and FacilitatorsWe consider several different scenarios: in bed together, you eat chocolate, you feel happy and guilty, you eat more chocolate there is a deadline for a Valentine’s Day piece, but the market for articles about the fetishization of love is ironically oversaturated, and you panic to find another perspective
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