Literature Beta

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Why “Moon Child”?
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Quote source - “if memories could bleed, if dreams could scream”
Awarded Jan 15 at 13:36
What does “ceremony of innocence” mean In “The Second Coming”?
Awarded Jan 12 at 16:25
What does “soul” mean in “My Face for the World to See”?
Awarded Jan 10 at 21:50
Paperback book about a falsely arrested man living in the wilderness who raises wolf cubs
Awarded Jan 8 at 21:42
How much time did one canto in Dante's Divine Comedy represent (if any)?
Awarded Jan 5 at 19:49
How did Snape figure out the stuff he had written in his Advanced Potion-Making book?
Awarded Jan 5 at 13:50
Children's book in which there seems to be another person on the opposite side of their mirror
Awarded Jan 3 at 10:20
How do you become aware “of the earth as poetry”?
Awarded Jan 1 at 22:02
Did “equator” have a different meaning from its common one in 19th-century English literature?
Awarded Dec 28 '20 at 16:12
Is there any evidence for a gay relationship in The Merchant of Venice?
Awarded Dec 22 '20 at 6:07
What does ‘Kung mapatay di madeadball ’ mean?
Awarded Dec 22 '20 at 5:41
What does “I wished it could be us out there.” mean in this context?
Awarded Dec 21 '20 at 13:42
Is Jonathan Culler saying that literary theory is effectively the same subject as cultural studies?
Awarded Dec 19 '20 at 16:05
Are some works of literature almost impossible to translate correctly?
Awarded Dec 19 '20 at 0:27
Harry Potter German translation - use of word “Eingeweide”
Awarded Dec 18 '20 at 23:56
What does “wade through its lunar landscape” mean in this context?
Awarded Dec 17 '20 at 11:25
Why does the narrator in “Stopping by Woods” stop by the woods?
Awarded Dec 16 '20 at 14:18
Was it normal to mix up the word “lady” with a man in Canada in 1894?
Awarded Dec 16 '20 at 13:32
Was Afghanistan considered tropical or was Holmes wrong?
Awarded Dec 16 '20 at 10:42
Why did John le Carré choose that particular (French) pseudonym?
Awarded Dec 15 '20 at 18:10
What is the symbolism of Atticus killing the mad dog?
Awarded Dec 13 '20 at 2:47
In the mini-series “The Queen's Gambit”, the character Jolene is black. Is this also the case in the novel by Walter Tevis?
Awarded Dec 7 '20 at 22:26
Looking for a mystery novel series whose protagonists are two old retired women
Awarded Dec 3 '20 at 20:16
What does spit mean in “spit in my glove” from the memoir by Powers? Literally spit?
Awarded Nov 26 '20 at 3:43
What exactly is the “No Ordinary Sun”?
Awarded Nov 23 '20 at 10:11
What was Captain Hook's name before losing his hand?
Awarded Nov 17 '20 at 21:42
Why does Ray Bradbury use “flounder” for an action with a positive outcome?
Awarded Nov 14 '20 at 3:32
Why is there so much technical detail of whaling included in Moby-Dick?
Awarded Nov 13 '20 at 2:45
Symbolism of the Mind Game in Ender's Game
Awarded Nov 12 '20 at 4:32
Why do the Pern novels use regular words as profanity?
Awarded Nov 9 '20 at 18:19
In which poem(s) in Day by Day does Robert Lowell describe erectile dysfunction?
Awarded Nov 7 '20 at 21:47
Who or what does Benjamin the donkey represent in Animal Farm?
Awarded Nov 6 '20 at 1:50
To whom does “cheery and sceptical” refer in “The Just Men of Cordova”?
Awarded Nov 5 '20 at 6:31
What did Tolkien mean by “The Eagles are a dangerous 'machine'”?
Awarded Nov 2 '20 at 17:18
Gore Vidal’s book about the Mexican-American war: was anything published?
Awarded Nov 1 '20 at 16:26
What's with the beyond-casual introduction of “stone-giants” in The Hobbit?
Awarded Oct 30 '20 at 17:16
What is the English name for “Bilbo Secker”, and why is Bilbo Baggins apparently “alternatively” called that?
Awarded Oct 28 '20 at 13:22
Why does the narrator in Tagore's story call the Cabuliwallah's daughter “Parbati”?
Awarded Oct 28 '20 at 10:50
What does it mean to declare “on a weak red suit”?
Awarded Oct 28 '20 at 10:07
What did Shakespeare mean in King Richard III when he said that ‘G’ Of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall be?
Awarded Oct 26 '20 at 21:56
What's the deal with Bilbo being some kind of “burglar”?
Awarded Oct 26 '20 at 12:05
What's the deal with Bilbo being some kind of “burglar”?
Awarded Oct 26 '20 at 1:05
What's the deal with Bilbo being some kind of “burglar”?
Awarded Oct 25 '20 at 20:10
What does “It is not meet” mean in “Idylls of the King”?
Awarded Oct 22 '20 at 20:05
In the Brothers Karamazov, did Dostoyevsky take those characters out of real life?
Awarded Oct 20 '20 at 17:03
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Awarded Oct 19 '20 at 20:17
Did Saruman exclusively want to mess with the Hobbits in the end of the third book?
Awarded Oct 18 '20 at 18:57
Why wasn't O'Brien considered a thought criminal?
Awarded Oct 15 '20 at 15:43
What is the trope known in Russian as “speaking name” called in English?
Awarded Oct 14 '20 at 23:41
How could Merry know about who “Sharkey” was just before he showed up in end of The Return of the King?
Awarded Oct 14 '20 at 18:12
What does Victor Hugo mean by “the red ant heaps of Toulon”?
Awarded Oct 13 '20 at 18:42
Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire?
Awarded Oct 13 '20 at 10:11
Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire?
Awarded Oct 12 '20 at 21:33
Why is Aragorn so weird to Pippin when they make their final farewell before going back to the Shire?
Awarded Oct 12 '20 at 21:33
Where is the “unborable” quote in The Pale King?
Awarded Oct 11 '20 at 0:15
Examples of Zeus's Immoral Nature
Awarded Oct 10 '20 at 21:56
Why did Shams refuse to sleep with Kimya?
Awarded Oct 9 '20 at 19:51
What was the ethnicity of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights?
Awarded Oct 7 '20 at 11:27
What is a Pehliva?
Awarded Oct 5 '20 at 16:00
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