Sympathy for the Devil: How Writers on Crime Fiction Throw Interest on the Murderer
‘[T]he poet […] must throw the interest on the murderer: our sympathy must be with him’ Thomas De Quincey – …
‘[T]he poet […] must throw the interest on the murderer: our sympathy must be with him’ Thomas De Quincey – …
‘One day somebody is going to get up and give history a kick up the backside and get it going …
Imagism, or in the French, Imagisme, as it was originally named, was a short lived but influential poetic movement initiated …
William Empson’s ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity’ provides a significant introduction to literary theory for the new critical reader. Empson’s interpretations …
By the end of the 1960s, writes David Eason, cultural criticism was focused upon efforts to understand how the self …
Through the loosely connected stories in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie’s polyphonic narratives reimagine reservation …
John Seelye’s introduction to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer states that the novel is ‘a story about a “bad” boy’s …
In his book ‘Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature’ (1984), author and critic Donald Pizer defined literary naturalism as …
In the introduction of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave , Houston A. Baker offers …
It is widely accepted that literary realism portrays its subjects in a realistic way; the extraordinary is not a frequent …