Literature Blog
Without literature, life is hell.
-Charles Bukowski
From Dostoevsky to Dickenson, from the Bronte sisters to the Grimm brothers, from Shakespeare to Kafka, lets dive into these timeless stories and find out the secret ingredients that make them so inexpressibly unforgettable. This is a place to find all your favorite authors and drown in all the symbolism and similes. So dust off your old copies and bring your treasured hardcovers. Here’s your sign to study Literature!
LIST OF POSTS
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As Artists, How To Be Original & Create Something So ‘You’?
“I must Create a System or be enslav’d by another Man’sI will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create.” -William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion There are a lot of copies going around in the…
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The Remarkable Life of Virginia Woolf and Feminist Literary Criticism
I’m fascinated by the life of Virginia Woolf. Her thinking and philosophy about the feminist literary criticism is something to surely take inspiration from. Such work, such philosophies, and…yeah, such a tragic end. Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 to…
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Hell Is Other People (But So Is Heaven)—Sartre’s No Exit & The Good Place
INEZ: Wait! You’ll see how simple it is. Childishly simple. Obviously there aren’t any physical torments—you agree, don’t you? And yet we’re in hell. And no one else will come here. We’ll stay in this room together, the three of…
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The Rover by Aphra Behn: The Prologue. Let’s Kick it Off!
Hey, I was reading The Rover by Aphra Behn as part of my college syllabus for my second semester and…I had some pretty unexpected revelations during it. Both of them also being…kinda contradictory. Here’s how it happened. The first realization…
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“Rape of the Lock” by Pope: A Complete Guide to Canto 1
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a petty social dispute is exaggerated and elevated to the grandeur and significance of an…epic battle? And what happens if a genius of a poet transforms a real life incident, a quarrel…
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Best Reads This Summer. Here is Your Summer Reading List 2025!
Best reads this summer! Your informational, overachieving, nerdy summer reading list. Hah! The long days are back. Last summer, the one of 2024, I wrote a post containing some 51 things to do this summer. This time around as I…
