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| Plot Twists in Fiction: Making a Story Standout | |
 Thanks for reading and commenting, Charmaine. | Punk Rock in Allen Ginsberg's Howl: Kill Your Idols to Make Yourself a God |
It’s a great film because of all the reasons you mention. Strong female leads in current film are too few… | Thelma and Louise: The Language of Patriarchy |
Interesting piece. Some painting I’ve never seen before… thanks for this. Also made me think of Ernest Hemingway… another artist who depicted ‘the truth’ about the war, albeit through literature. | World War One: Truth Within Artistic Representations |
Thank you, Lauren! | Punk Rock in Allen Ginsberg's Howl: Kill Your Idols to Make Yourself a God |
Yes to all three! | Punk Rock in Allen Ginsberg's Howl: Kill Your Idols to Make Yourself a God |
Nice piece. This one required a lot of research. Had to memorize the first 25 lines of Canterbury Tales as an undergrad––it helped us learn how the language worked back then. I found it interesting and intriguing. Chaucer was a genius… | Chaucer and Evolving Grammar |
This is a stunning work of fiction––have to admit, there are swaths of the book that I just don’t understand. Same thing with Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury though. Point is, one can go back to these books and continue to discover new meaning… Thanks for the piece. Excellent analysis of a very difficult novel to analyze. | Blood Meridian: Excessive Violence and Its Implications on the Human Condition |
Cool article… love the Chekhov’s Gun section. A great writer to look at for surprise ending is Flannery O’Connor. Her endings are always revelations and surprises, though they seem inevitable too.