Today's Date:
January 11, 2025
Applied Writing Concepts: Willing Suspension of Disbelief By Michael Smathers
Throughout all of mankind’s history, we have told stories to one another; stories in various media and through various genres. It’s in the nature of man to want to enjoy a good story, but this isn’t something that automatically happens. →
The Garden of the Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges: Time and Possibilities
In “The Garden of the Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges, one of the major themes is that of time and the possibilities it offers. In fact, this theme in “The Garden of the Forking Paths” can also be termed →
What is the Literary Canon and What Criteria Define It? : The Examples of Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Melville
Any student of literature, however passionate he or she may be, is likely to readily acknowledge that some of the works in the literary canon are curiously out of place amongst more illustrious works by “major” authors. As is the →
Analysis of Pedagogy of The Oppressed by Paul Freire By Moulik Mistry
Is education a one-way traffic? The teacher will gorge out something from his memory or from his notebook and the students will listen to him like some dumb dudes? If this is education practiced in one-way-traffic module, what is destined →
The Prophet : Kahlil Gibran’s Magnum Opus By Moulik Mistry
Kahlil Gibran’s book of poetry The Prophet is already a widely read book. Its language is ethereal and of celestial beauty. Life is delved deep and explored in all its possibilities, life is celebrated in all its nuances. Here life →
Review Summary and Analysis of “Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of a Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment: by Richard Bernstein
What makes Richard Bernstein’s Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of a Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment a particularly interesting book is that it is not wholly a history. Neither is the book a wholly autobiographical memoir or a →
The Literary Development of Women in the Domestic Sphere : The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, & Serialization of the “Cult of True Womanhood”
In the 1800s and well into the mid-1900s, the genres of literary fiction and non-fiction alike, whether authored by women or by men, tended to reinforce stereotypical gender norms. Women were typically portrayed in what was assumed to be their →
Themes and Plot Analysis of “The Snowstorm” by Pushkin
As this analysis of the short story, “The Snowstorm” by Alexander Pushkin emphasizes, the reader encounters a plot that is not entirely novel. The familiar story of the frustrated young love has, in fact, become a well-worn favorite over the →
Poststructural Analysis of “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman
A poststructural reading of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass offers new definitions of self, democracy, and nationhood. Whitman is not only the poem’s author, but also its speaker, a fact which challenges the reader to decenter Whitman’s assertions and meanings. While the →
Review and Summary of Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson
The title of Craig Thompson’s most recent travel book, Carnet de Voyage, translated roughly from the French into English as “travel document,” suggests to the reader that he or she is entering into a travelogue that will have France as its setting. The →
