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The Women of the 17th Century in Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales

First published in 1697, the eight stories in the collection Histoires ou contes du temps (or The Tales of Mother Goose) by the French...

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A Discovery of Home in Ursula K. Le Guin’s "Catwings"

Ursula K. Le Guin was a Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy, a literary legend that expanded her creativity even to children’s...

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Paradox and Time Travel as Constructs for the Meaning of Life in “All You Zombies— ” - REVIEW

Robert A. Heinlein’s short story “All You Zombies—” (1959) is a science fiction masterpiece dealing with deterministic time travel and a...

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Playing with Memory: the Narrative Puzzle in Memento

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan in 2000, Memento is a movie that plays with its audience by using a scenic puzzle structure,...

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Portraying Nonfictional Tragedy: Krakauer’s "Into the Wild" and Its Filmic Adaptation - REVIEW

At the young age of twenty-four, Chris McCandless sought the adventure of a lifetime, which culminated into a trip to the Alaskan...

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The Communal Experience of First-Person Plural in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” - REVIEW

As the first published story of William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930) non-linearly follows the eponymous character Emily Grierson,...

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Authenticity and Racial Humor with Epistolary Format in “Belles Lettres” - REVIEW

Nafissa Thompson-Spires’ 2019 acclaimed debut Heads of the Colored People is the short stories collection where, at one point, two black...

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Multiperspectivity as Self-Awareness of the World in “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” - REVIEW

Ursula K. Le Guin created a body of work that merged her scientific, philosophical interests with her narrative talent, and her 1974...

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Christopher Nolan's "Memento" - Script Coverage

TITLE: Memento AUTHOR: Christopher Nolan FORM: Feature Screenplay LOCALE: Los Angeles CIRCA: Modern, Present Day...

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Hybrid Novels at Their Finest with Danielewski’s "The Fifty Year Sword" - REVIEW

THE FIFTY YEAR SWORD by Mark Z Danielewski. 100 pp. Pantheon Books, 2012. $26. As we have come to expect from Danielewski, a novel (or...