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    What is Free Indirect Discourse in Literature?
    Marisa
    • Jun 16

    What is Free Indirect Discourse in Literature?

    What do the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Virginia Woolf all have in common? Ok, ok, well *other* than being kickass...
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    5 Books to Give Yourself a Self-Love Valentine
    Marisa
    • Feb 14

    5 Books to Give Yourself a Self-Love Valentine

    Book buying is its own kind of love language. This Valentine's Day, instead of picking up a romance novel, check out these non-fiction books
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    Has the pandemic stolen your love of reading? Here are four ways to rekindle the love affair
    Marisa
    • Jan 7

    Has the pandemic stolen your love of reading? Here are four ways to rekindle the love affair

    Many say the pandemic has reduced their interest in reading. Here are a few tips to reignite your love of reading.
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    10 Facts About Edgar Allan Poe
    Marisa
    • Oct 28, 2021

    10 Facts About Edgar Allan Poe

    Biographical facts about Edgar Allan Poe, the famous American Gothic writer.
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    That Creepy Feeling You Get with a Spooky Book
    Marisa
    • Oct 20, 2021

    That Creepy Feeling You Get with a Spooky Book

    Why does somethings seem scary? Read about Freud's theory of the uncanny to understand how writers and movies manipulate our expectations.
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    Who's Who in 'The Sun Also Rises'
    Marisa
    • Sep 28, 2021

    Who's Who in 'The Sun Also Rises'

    It is no secret that Ernest Hemingway drew on his personal experiences attending the bullfights in Pamplona to draft his 1926 novel The...
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    The Lost Generation in Literature
    Marisa
    • Sep 19, 2021

    The Lost Generation in Literature

    In his memoir titled A Moveable Feast (1964), Ernest Hemingway recounts how writer Gertrude Stein first heard the term “génération...
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    10 Facts About Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’
    Marisa
    • Aug 17, 2021

    10 Facts About Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’

    1. Aware of her growing popularity, Austen had anxiety over how Emma would be received by the reading public, writing: “My great anxiety...
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    Literary Cocktail: The French Blonde from 'China Rich Girlfriend'
    Marisa
    • Jul 29, 2021

    Literary Cocktail: The French Blonde from 'China Rich Girlfriend'

    "As guests walk up the long pebble driveway to the house, a line of French waiters in black Napoleon-collared jackets welcome us with...
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    A Historic Glimpse of the French Literary Salons
    Marisa
    • Jul 27, 2021

    A Historic Glimpse of the French Literary Salons

    What is a literary salon? Literary salons have their origins in the Renaissance idea of gathering for debate in the courts of Italy and...
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    Six Facts About the Brontës
    Marisa
    • Jul 13, 2021

    Six Facts About the Brontës

    With three literary geniuses in the family—Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—the Brontës certainly secured themselves a (rightful) place in the...
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    Book Diversity in Canadian Literature
    Marisa
    • Jul 1, 2021

    Book Diversity in Canadian Literature

    Traditionally Canadian Literature, or CanLit, has highlighted voices of European settlers, been divided along English versus French...
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    Capturing the Gothic Life of Shirley Jackson on Film
    Marisa
    • Apr 29, 2021

    Capturing the Gothic Life of Shirley Jackson on Film

    I finally had the time to sit down and watch the 2020 movie Shirley (currently on Amazon Prime), based on a novel of the same name by...
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    Charlotte Brontë's Rejected Novel 'The Professor'
    Marisa
    • Apr 21, 2021

    Charlotte Brontë's Rejected Novel 'The Professor'

    On this day in 1816, Charlotte Brontë was born! So, it is only fitting that I recently completed my reading of the first novel she ever...
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    School Textbooks Reflect our Societal Values
    Marisa
    • Apr 12, 2021

    School Textbooks Reflect our Societal Values

    I recently wrote a post about What Makes a Literary Classic in which I was thinking about what we culturally consider a ‘classic’ and how...
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    Filling the Literary Gaps: English Female Writers 1750 - 1915
    Marisa
    • Mar 8, 2021

    Filling the Literary Gaps: English Female Writers 1750 - 1915

    Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature (2016) by Shelley DeWees is a delightful...
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    Reviewing One of the First English Novels
    Marisa
    • Feb 24, 2021

    Reviewing One of the First English Novels

    How do you review a book that is 300 years old? The grammar, punctuation, and narrative structure are not like anything we see in today's...
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    Classic F#@*ing Literature
    Marisa
    • Feb 9, 2021

    Classic F#@*ing Literature

    Not typical classroom vocabulary, but a historical lesson nonetheless! That oft used F word can be a noun, an adjective, a verb, an...
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    Finding Their Voice: The Female Bildungsroman
    Marisa
    • Jan 3, 2021

    Finding Their Voice: The Female Bildungsroman

    "Bildungsroman" is a German word meaning novel of education or formation. The term has become a literary category for written works whose...
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    Creating Christmas Traditions with Charles Dickens
    Marisa
    • Dec 14, 2020

    Creating Christmas Traditions with Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) continues to be read, watched and performed after more than 175 years, and is enjoyed by all...
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