Criticism and interpretation subtopic
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Articles
1-100 out of 100 article(s)
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Author |
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Date |
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| The end of the affair. |
Douthat, Ross |
Critical essay |
Jun 30, 2008 |
943 |
| Peter Carey: the two-time Booker Prize-winning author tells the story of a child of 60s radicals who have gone underground. |
Teisch, Jessica |
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May 1, 2008 |
2496 |
| Skipping the life fantastic in a hard city. |
Shepard, Benjamin |
Critical essay |
Apr 1, 2008 |
3002 |
| D. H. Lawrence. |
Teisch, Jessica |
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Mar 1, 2008 |
3638 |
| The age of the spin-doctors: blair or blair? |
Coleman, Peter |
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Mar 1, 2008 |
1597 |
| Act locally, think globally, revisited. |
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Jan 1, 2008 |
1299 |
| Jesus good: the Zeitgeist has spoken, religion is bad. |
Faiz, Andrew |
Viewpoint essay |
Jan 1, 2008 |
728 |
| Religion, violence and Roger Scruton. |
Sandall, Roger |
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Dec 1, 2007 |
2877 |
| Isabel Allende: book by book. |
Teisch, Jessica |
Bibliography |
Nov 1, 2007 |
3334 |
| Edwidge Danticat: the Haitian novelist turns from fiction to memoir. |
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Nov 1, 2007 |
1845 |
| Graham Swift: his latest novel, tomorrow, is a stumble, but the author has a stellar body of work. |
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Nov 1, 2007 |
1836 |
| The camaraderie of not caring: misreading Henry Lawson. |
Morgan, Patrick |
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Nov 1, 2007 |
3876 |
| On being older: (with welcome support from A.J.P. Taylor). |
Devine, Frank |
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Sep 1, 2007 |
2348 |
| A history charm. |
Gould, Alan |
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Sep 1, 2007 |
1737 |
| Opium of the intellectuals. |
Congdon, Lee |
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Aug 27, 2007 |
1447 |
| Hard Times as Bodie: the allegorical functionality in E.L. Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times (1960)/Hard Times as Bodie: die allegoriese funksionaliteit in E.L. Doctorow se Welcome to Hard Times (1960). |
van der Merwe, Philip |
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Aug 1, 2007 |
9865 |
| What is to be done? "I do not know," says the great bell of bow. |
Coleman, Peter |
Critical essay |
Jul 1, 2007 |
1576 |
| Never upon a holiday. |
Ryan, Peter |
Critical essay |
Jul 1, 2007 |
1221 |
| "As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed": Winnifred Eaton's Revision of North American Identity. |
Skinazi, Karen E.H. |
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Jun 22, 2007 |
8804 |
| Colonial education and the politics of knowledge in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart. |
Wesling, Meg |
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Jun 22, 2007 |
8635 |
| The logic of liberalism: Lorenzo de Zavala's transcultural politics. |
Mexal, Stephen J. |
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Jun 22, 2007 |
9987 |
| Southernizing travel in the Black Atlantic: Booker T. Washington's The Man Farthest Down. |
Totten, Gary |
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Jun 22, 2007 |
9101 |
| Revised memories and colliding identities: absence and presence in Morrison's "Recitatif" and Viramontes's "Tears on My Pillow". |
Androne, Helane Adams |
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Jun 22, 2007 |
6211 |
| Charles Reis Felix's Through a Portagee Gate: lives parceled out in stories. |
Fagundes, Francisco Cota |
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Jun 22, 2007 |
4810 |
| Ilan Pappe. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. |
Da'Na, Seif |
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Jun 22, 2007 |
2588 |
| This book is not good. |
McCarraher, Eugene |
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Jun 15, 2007 |
3536 |
| The Fall and Repentance of Galadriel. |
Lakowski, Romuald Ian |
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Mar 22, 2007 |
6962 |
| The monstrosity of the gaze: critical problems with a film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. |
Harl, Allison |
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Mar 22, 2007 |
4180 |
| Galadriel and Morgan le Fey: Tolkien's redemption of the lady of the lacuna. |
Carter, Susan |
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Mar 22, 2007 |
9261 |
| Ordinary academics standing behind ordinary people: Boris Frankel responds to Rob Watts. |
Frankel, Boris |
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Feb 1, 2007 |
3929 |
| Nonie Sharp on finding a language that speaks to ourselves. |
Sharp, Nonie |
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Feb 1, 2007 |
2466 |
| A.S. Byatt (1936-). |
Teisch, Jessica |
Biography |
Jan 1, 2007 |
3748 |
| The strange pleasure of The Leopard Man: gender, genre and authorship in a Val Lewton thriller. |
Preston, Scott |
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Jan 1, 2007 |
8120 |
| Season's best. |
Potemra, Michael |
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Dec 31, 2006 |
738 |
| Who is being smuttier? |
Buckley, William F., Jr. |
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Dec 4, 2006 |
637 |
| Drucker in December. |
McKenna, Joseph F. |
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Dec 1, 2006 |
600 |
| Fit In, Stand Out. |
Buckley, Patrick |
Brief article |
Dec 1, 2006 |
293 |
| Anne Tyler. |
Teisch, Jessica |
Biography |
Nov 1, 2006 |
3587 |
| Trudeau's great leap: a new translation of his Chinese travel diaries prompts both admiration and concern. |
Wright, David Curtis |
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Nov 1, 2006 |
2577 |
| The peacemaker. |
Potemra, Michael |
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Oct 23, 2006 |
1825 |
| 'We repent for robbing Africans of their history and identity': a delegation of European church leaders, visiting Zimbabwe, has apologised on behalf their countries for the slave trade and other sins committed against Africans. Sifelani Tsiko reports from Harare. |
Tsiko, Sifelani |
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Oct 1, 2006 |
760 |
| The adventure of the Anarchist Banker: reductio ad absurdum of a neo-liberal. |
Jackson, K. David |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2006 |
4697 |
| Oscar Wilde, Fernando Pessoa, and the art of lying. |
de Castro, Mariana |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2006 |
15004 |
| Groupie. |
Hanscombe, Elisabeth |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
3457 |
| Attention-getting statements help to sell books. |
McManus, John F. |
Brief article |
Jul 10, 2006 |
48 |
| Pope Dan I: the author of The Da Vinci Code shepherds a new religion. |
Novak, Michael |
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Jul 3, 2006 |
2553 |
| Dan Brown's amazingly successful novel The Da Vinci Code deserves most of the criticisms it has gotten--as history, it is hogwash; as theology, it is garbage; and as a piece of literature, it is at best a readable thriller. |
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Brief article |
Jun 5, 2006 |
180 |
| Da Vinci's hidden truth decoded. |
Harris, David |
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Jun 1, 2006 |
712 |
| Muriel Spark was an artist through and through. |
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Brief article |
May 8, 2006 |
206 |
| 'Um James Bond subdesenvolvido': the ideological work of the Angolan detective in Pepetela's Jaime Bunda novels. |
Henighan, Stephen |
Critical essay |
Mar 22, 2006 |
8080 |
| Scandalous sensations: The Woman in White on the Victorian stage. |
Bachman, Maria K. |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
8284 |
| The lion king. |
Miller, John J. |
Cover story |
Dec 5, 2005 |
2635 |
| Portrait of Christianity today. |
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Cover Story |
Dec 1, 2005 |
4915 |
| This writer's life: irony & faith in the work of Tobias Wolff. |
Contino, Paul J. |
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Oct 21, 2005 |
3569 |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Anglo-Dutch emblem tradition. |
Bentley, D.M.R. |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
6019 |
| Lakoff for sexuality educators: the power and magic of "framing". |
Roffman, Deborah M. |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
4708 |
| Mazarine John Lang's 1845 novel. |
Crittenden, Victor |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
2526 |
| Two of a kind? |
Birnbaum, Milton |
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Mar 22, 2005 |
2031 |
| Memoir of a 21st-century history maker: why Barack Obama's book, published a decade ago but a best-seller only last fall, may be destined to become an American classic. |
Mitchell, Mary |
Cover Story |
Jan 1, 2005 |
2042 |
| Neera the verist woman writer. |
Ramsey-Portolano, Catherine |
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Sep 22, 2004 |
7129 |
| Nikolai Berdiaev and spiritual freedom. |
Banerjee, Maria Nemcova |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2004 |
5143 |
| A stroll with Albert Jay Nock. |
Thornton, Robert M. |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2004 |
3672 |
| "'n brief in 'n bottel": 'n Lesing van Karel Schoeman se Die laaste Afrikaanse boek. |
Viljoen, Louise |
Critical Essay |
Jun 1, 2004 |
10187 |
| The media and public relations. |
Teichmann, Max |
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Mar 22, 2004 |
2718 |
| Moral ambiguity in Darkness Visible. |
Icoz, Nursel |
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Mar 22, 2004 |
3788 |
| A celebration and lament for nature: ways of thinking and writing about nature are changing with our relationship to it. |
Sharp, Nonie |
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Feb 1, 2004 |
2475 |
| Something other than a family quarrel: the beautiful boys in Morrison's Sula. |
Mayberry, Susan Neal |
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Dec 22, 2003 |
10452 |
| "He made us laugh some": Frederick Douglass's humor. |
Ganter, Granville |
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Dec 22, 2003 |
10921 |
| Orwell on writing. |
Meyers, Jeffrey |
Critical Essay |
Oct 1, 2003 |
4563 |
| Christian manliness and fatherhood in Charles Kingsley's writings. |
Fasick, Laura |
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Sep 22, 2003 |
3611 |
| Reconceptualising thought and space: labyrinths and cities in Calvino's fictions. |
Pilz, Kerstin |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2003 |
6454 |
| Paulo Freire: on hope. |
Weiler, Kathleen |
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Jun 22, 2003 |
3295 |
| The strange case of Michel Houellebecq. (Literature). |
Masson, Sophie |
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Jun 1, 2003 |
2856 |
| The end of the line? (Notes & comments: May 2003). |
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May 1, 2003 |
503 |
| Whatever happened to sweetness and light? |
Coleman, Peter |
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Jan 1, 2003 |
960 |
| Ebola-Poe: a modern-day parallel of the red death? (Another Dimension). |
Ramanan, Sundaram V. |
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Dec 1, 2002 |
1882 |
| "Clash of civilizations" and Marxism. (Insider Report). |
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Brief Article |
Aug 26, 2002 |
321 |
| Literature's afterlife. |
Morgan, Patrick |
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Sep 1, 2001 |
2488 |
| Napalm and After: The Politics of Grace Paley's Short Fiction. |
NEWMAN, JUDIE |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2001 |
4295 |
| Imperilled Communities in Edward P. Jones's Lost in the City and Dagoberto Gilb's The Magic of Blood. |
KENNEDY, J. GERALD; BEUKA, ROBERT |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
6546 |
| 'Do You See What I'm Saying?': The Inadequacy of Explanation and the Uses of Story in the Short Fiction of Raymond Carver. |
MAY, CHARLES E. |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
6079 |
| 'The Crack-House Flicker': The Sacred and the Absurd in the Short Stories of Dennis Cooper, Dennis Johnson, and Thom Jones. |
McCARRON, KEVIN |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
6106 |
| Geometry and Music: Rita Dove's Fifth Sunday. |
RIGHELATO, PAT |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2001 |
6294 |
| 'Moments of Punctuation': Metonymy and Ellipsis in Tim O'Brien. |
LUSTIG, T. J. |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
9508 |
| Winging It: Realism and Invention in the Stories of Tobias Wolff. |
SCOFIELD, MARTIN |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
8229 |
| Dis/figuration in the Stories of Jean Stafford. |
HANSON, CLARE |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
4500 |
| Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String. |
VERNON, PETER |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
3659 |
| Short Fiction with Attitude: The Lives of Boys and Men in the Lives of Girls and Women. |
BEER, JANET |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2001 |
4106 |
| Story Cycles of Future History: Cordwainer Smith's 'Instrumentality of Mankind'. |
SEED, DAVID |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
5347 |
| In the Subjunctive Mood: Carol Shields's Dressing Up for the Carnival. |
HOWELLS, CORAL ANN |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
5525 |
| Escape Stories: Narratives and Native Americans in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. |
DIX, ANDREW |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2001 |
6062 |
| Mavis Gallant and the Politics of Cruelty. |
CONDE, MARY |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
7069 |
| The Thick-Skinned Art of John Updike: 'From the Journal of a Leper'. |
PROSSER, JAY |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
5127 |
| How Dirty is Jayne Anne Phillips? |
JARVIS, BRIAN |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
5969 |
| Fraternizing with the Enemy: Constructions of Masculinity in the Short Fiction of Timothy Findley. |
BILLINGHAM, SUSAN E. |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
6676 |
| Changing of the Old Guard: Time Travel and Literary Technique in the Work of Kurt Vonnegut. |
CORDLE, DANIEL |
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Jan 1, 2000 |
5421 |
| Return of the Century: Time, Modernity, and the End of History in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. |
CARROLL, RACHEL |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2000 |
7607 |
| Walter Abish: Plotting a 'Terrorism' of Postmodernist Fiction. |
HOUEN, ALEXANDER |
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Jan 1, 2000 |
10032 |
| Occasions for Solidarity: Ashbery, Riley, and the Tradition of the New. |
HERD, DAVID |
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Jan 1, 2000 |
7316 |
| A tribute to Jose Saramago. |
De Sousa, Rebelo, Luis |
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Jan 1, 1999 |
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