Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in a long line of narratives—not just novels, but narratives generally—si...
Every reader’s experience of every work is unique, largely because each person will emphasize various elements to differing degrees, and those differences will cause certain features of the text to be...
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before.
Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources.
His argument runs like this: there is no goodness without free will. Without the ability to freely choose-or reject-the good, an individual possesses no control over his own soul, and without that con...
History is story, too.
If to get to the finish line the hero must walk over a sea of bodies, then so be it. He can die at said line, but he's got to get there.
In Eudora Welty’s masterful story Why I Live at the P.O. (1941), the narrator is engaged in a sibling rivalry with her younger sister, who has come home after leaving under suspicious if not actually...
In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation.
Ishmael Reed
Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.
Professors also read, and think, symbolically. Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What results can sometimes be as much our creation as the nov...
Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.
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