Interesting Literature
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A page celebrating all that is most interesting about literature, the world of books, authors, and related matters. A mini-library of literary interestingness.
Interesting Literature
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Amanda Gorman’s poem ‘We Rise’ is an inspiring piece celebrating female empowerment and solidarity which calls upon women to support each other to bring about social change. The poem also cleverly summons the work of earlier poets who had written on the same topic. Summary Gorman begins the poem ... Read more ..read more
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Flowering of the Strange Orchid’ is a short story by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), first published in the Pall Mall Budget on 2 August 1894. In some ways a forerunner to later narratives like Little Shop of Horrors, the story is an unsettling tale about a parasitical species ... Read more ..read more
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1w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Hard Way is the quintessential Jack Reacher novel. When it was first published back in 2006, it was the tenth novel by Lee Child to feature the American ex-military policeman turned drifter and modern-day ‘knight errant’. Child’s publishing schedule had become as regular as Reacher’s inner clock (he ... Read more ..read more
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), or H. D. as she chose to publish, was labelled ‘the perfect imagist’ by various critics and reviewers. Born in the United States, H. D. made her literary name in London, where she was at the centre of the short-lived imagist movement during the First World ... Read more ..read more
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2w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Got a Letter from Jimmy’ is a short story by the American writer Shirley Jackson (1916-65). The story, which runs to just a few pages, involves just two characters: an unnamed husband and wife. The husband has received a letter from an associate simply identified as Jimmy; the wife ... Read more ..read more
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3w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Electric Ant’ is a short story by the American writer Philip K. Dick (1928-82), written in 1968 and published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October the following year. The story is about an ‘electric ant’ or robot which has always thought it was human; ... Read more ..read more
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3w ago
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Of all of the short stories by H. G. Wells (1866-1946), ‘The Apple’ is perhaps the most allegorical. First published in the Idler magazine in October 1896, the story concerns a schoolmaster who meets a man on a train; this man gives the teacher an apple which is from ... Read more ..read more
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Edward Thomas’s poem ‘Rain’ was written in 1916, while Thomas was fighting in the trenches. ‘Rain’ is about Thomas’s experience of sitting in a hut all night alone, listening to the rain falling and meditating on his death and on the fates of his fellow soldiers in the First ... Read more ..read more
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Dialogue with the Mirror’ is a 1949 short story by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Published when he was just twenty-two years old, it is an early work written when Márquez was still finding his way towards his mature style. In the story, a man looks at himself ... Read more ..read more
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The American poet Sharon Olds (born 1942) was born and raised in California and educated at Stanford, although she has spent much of her adult life in New York City. Although she began writing under the shadow of other poets such as Gary Snyder and George Oppen, she resolved ... Read more ..read more