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Topic/Theme Analysis
Mrs Dalloway (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The main focus of any essay should be your argument about the text or texts that you are studying. So, how do you form an argument about a literary text? It is...
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Analytical Evidence
TCLC – Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Photo credit: CCAC North Library) Textual Analysis, or ‘close reading’ You might be surprised to discover that the academic discipline of English...
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The Questions Academics Ask: Conference Edition
I have always been a fan of New Yorker cartoons, and this Steve Macone piece from 2010 seems to hit closer to home than most. Macone’s cartoon perfectly captures one of the several strange things...
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Alan Hollinghurst and Some Archeological Digging
It’s not very often that my research requires me to get involved with something as interesting as archeology, but in tying up some last pieces for my new book The Vitality of Influence: Alan...
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