Initial Impressions : The Death of the Author (1967)
Making sense of every major literary trend in the west is quite a task, I hate to admit. On the brighter side, the task of tracing a trend b......
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\"Do you write with a pencil, a pen, or a typewriter?\" On Becoming a Novelist - John Gardner
I’ve only recently started to count myself as a writer despite writing for more than a decade. A chance encounter with a writer I thought I’......
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\"Of Sons and Fathers\" Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
One of the most endearing things about novels that span generations is the opportunity to visualize the era gone by – ambitions, ideologies,......
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Initial Impressions: Literature of Exhaustion (1967)
'Literature of Exhaustion' by American writer John Barth, is generally considered the quintessential essay on post modernism. It was widely ......
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Initial Impressions: Imagination and Community (2012)
Presence is a great mystery, and presence in absence, which Jesus promised and has epitomized, is, at a human scale, a great reality for all......
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Initial Impressions : The Communist Manifesto (1847)
“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property” That’s the manifesto, w......
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