In Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water, one of the many methods used to create a Native American narrative, rather than a Westernised one, is the radical re-versioning of Western-Christian mythology. In the sections of the novel which detail the ...Read More
I've been thinking a lot recently about how we tell stories. I enjoy writing, and it is obvious to me that the invention of the written word, and more specifically the invention of the printing press and mass media, has ...Read More
Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker. I love Malcolm Gladwell! No related posts. Read More
It is clear that national identity and négritude (“the affirmation or consciousness of the value of black culture;…the cultural and political movement based on this.”) are a frequent preoccupation of Guillén’s poetry, especially his earlier works. However, I will demonstrate ...Read More
“What’s a play without a woman in it?”: The Role of Women in The Spanish Tragedy">
Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy[1. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy, ed. David Bevington, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996). All future act, scene and line references refer to this edition.] is not immediately striking as a play in which women play an ...Read More
"Who is speaking thus?" (Roland Barthes, 'The Death of the Author') Write an essay on narrative voice in prose literary texts that seeks to answer Barthes's question, while examining the ramifications of it. Related posts:Mrs. Dalloway Subversion / Reversion: The deconstruction and reconstruction ...Read More
"There is true art in it, this command of tea and dinner tables; this animating correctness. Men may congratulate themselves for writing truly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may consider war and the search for God to ...Read More
