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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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    Talking “Too Muchness” with Writer Rachel Vorona Cote
    Marisa
    • Mar 25

    Talking “Too Muchness” with Writer Rachel Vorona Cote

    A few weeks ago, I held Le Salon’s first ever author event with Rachel Vorona Cote to discuss her 2020 book Too Much: How Victorian...
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    The Nutcracker Ballet vs. The Original Story
    Marisa
    • Dec 21, 2021

    The Nutcracker Ballet vs. The Original Story

    After years of cancelled or postponed in-person cultural events due to Covid-19, I recently had the delight to attend a performance of...
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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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    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 Hemingway Special Cocktail (Papa Doble)
    Marisa
    • Sep 20, 2021

    The Hemingway Special Cocktail (Papa Doble)

    While Ernest Hemingway's oeuvre speaks for itself—The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940),...
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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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    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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    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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    A Jane Austen-inspired Cocktail Recipe from Toronto’s Famous Last Words Bar
    Marisa
    • May 13, 2021

    A Jane Austen-inspired Cocktail Recipe from Toronto’s Famous Last Words Bar

    I am so thrilled to bring you a cocktail from the amazing literary-themed bar in Toronto, Ontario, Famous Last Words (FLW)! Over the past...
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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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    Literary Cocktail: Miss Cathy's Whip
    Marisa
    • Mar 18, 2021

    Literary Cocktail: Miss Cathy's Whip

    "Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling, 'wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the...
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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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    What Makes a Literary Classic?
    Marisa
    • Feb 1, 2021

    What Makes a Literary Classic?

    Is it the amount of time that has passed? A wide readership? Originating from an ancient civilization? Defining a 'Classic' There is an...
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    25 Books to Help with your Lockdown Wanderlust
    Marisa
    • Jan 20, 2021

    25 Books to Help with your Lockdown Wanderlust

    Usually with the flip of the calendar to the New Year, we all begin looking ahead, planning for new adventures. But this year is so...
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