Update: I made a video version of this post! Check it out here: Moving on with The Wheel of Time books. This time I’m talking about book three, The Dragon Reborn. You can find my comments on book two here. As a reminder, this is a response to the book. There will be spoilers and […]
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Update: I made a video version of this post! Check it out here: After weeks of working on the series of literary theory posts, I’m finally getting back to The Wheel of Time! This time I’m looking at the second book, The Great Hunt. Note that this is meant as a response to the book
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This is the sixth part of our survey on literary theory loosely based on Paul Fry’s Open Yale course. Last time we talked about deconstruction. Today we’re moving on to psychoanalytic literary theory. You can find the rest of this series here:Introduction to Literary Theory Part 0: What am I talking about?Introduction to Literary Theory
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This is the fifth part of our survey on literary theory loosely based on Paul Fry’s Open Yale course. Last time we talked about structuralism. Today we’re moving on to deconstruction. You can find the rest of this series here:Introduction to Literary Theory Part 0: What am I talking about?Introduction to Literary Theory Part 1:
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This is the fourth part of our survey on literary theory loosely based on Paul Fry’s Open Yale course. Last time we talked about Formalism. Today we’re going to talk about Structuralism, and we’ll move on to deconstruction and Post-Structuralism soon! You can find the rest of this series here:Introduction to Literary Theory Part 0:
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This is the third part of our survey of literary theory based on Paul Fry’s Open Yale course. You can find part two here. This time we’re going to focus on formalism. In particular, we’ll look at Russian Formalism and the New Criticism. You can find the rest of this series here:Introduction to Literary Theory
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This is part two of our survey of literary theory based on Paul Fry’s Open Yale course. You can find part one here. Ready to dig into the next two sessions for part two? You can find the rest of this series here:Introduction to Literary Theory Part 0: What am I talking about?Introduction to Literary
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Alright, with the preamble out of the way, let’s get to learning about literary theory! You can find the rest of this series here:Introduction to Literary Theory Part 0: What am I talking about?Introduction to Literary Theory Part 1: What is Literary Theory?Introduction to Literary Theory Part 2: The Hermeneutic CircleIntroduction to Literary Theory Part
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I’m going to audit Introduction to Theory of Literature with Paul H. Fry. I’m doing this to better understand the other topics I hope to cover on this blog. Want to audit the class with me?
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So, I spent all day yesterday reading Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by Montague Rhodes James (edited with an introduction by S. T. Joshi), and I’d like to talk it over a bit. I hadn’t been planning to read it, but my wife gave me a copy for Christmas, and I’m really glad that
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