Going After Cacciato
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden
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.
Professors also read, and think, symbolically. Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
In a sense, every story or poem is a vacation.
Ishmael Reed
Always and never are not words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing, as soon as something seems to always be true, some wise guy will come along and write something to prove that it...
Corollaries—where have I seen his face, don’t I know that
Characters as rich and complex as those we believe ourselves to be
When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.
And we feel that those characters couldn't be anywhere but where they are, that those characters couldn't say the things they say if they were uprooted and planted in, say, Minnesota or Scotland.
We - as readers or writers, tellers or listeners - understand each other, we share knowledge of the structures of our myths, we comprehend the logic of symbols, largely because we have access to the s...
The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would continue that process and bring the devil into the mix. At least John Smi...
Where readers of Murdoch can begin a new novel with a quiet confidence, opening a Burgess book is an exercise in anxiety: what the devil is he up to this time?
There is, in fact, no form of dysfunctional family or no personal disintegration of character for which there is not a Greek or Roman model.
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