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Project Hail Mary vs. Beowulf vs. The Iliad: Heroes across time
Margin Notes: Beowulf (and Project Hail Mary!) (and a mini-review of The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours!)
Apr 15 • emm
Charles Dickens or Bad Fanfic?
Margin Notes: "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
Apr 10 • emm
Literary Realism #2: What's the Point of Realism?
Margin Notes: watch me have a literary breakdown in real time
Mar 27 • emm
Literary Realism #1: Identify Victorian Realism with me
Margin Notes: "North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell
Mar 18 • emm
Female Rage in Jane Eyre: Keeping up with the Brontës
Margin Notes: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Mar 11 • emm
A Literary Theory You Should Understand? Reader-Response.
Margin Notes: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Reader-Response Theory
Mar 3 • emm
Who's afraid of "Wuthering Heights"? Prudes and Puritans.
Margin Notes: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Feb 12 • emm
The Best Unreliable Narrator
Margin Notes: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Feb 3 • emm
You didn't like that book because you don't understand form vs. content
Margin Notes: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Jan 20 • emm
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