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What evidence is there for the "recession of accent" theory?
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What is the origin of this quote about God, Flies, and Spiders?
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What does "fail us" mean in the book "Pachinko"?
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What is known about the content of the Ur-Hamlet?
Awarded Dec 20, 2022 at 18:41
Ray Bradbury says Fahrenheit 451 isn't about censorship. Is he right?
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When did detective fiction become primarily about murder?
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In Great Expectations, who is the man at the pub in Chapter Ten?
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In Macbeth, why is Fleance 'scaped?
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Who introduced the term close reading in the context of literature?
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Do we know what prompted Orwell to write 1984?
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Why is Georg Büchner considered such an important figure in German literature?
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What is the name of a poem about relativity?
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What is the history of the universe/canon/word-of-god approach to literature?
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Book about a man who entered a relationship with a shady woman and then had to kill people
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What does Borges' reference to the Greek mean in "The Lottery in Babylon"?
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Why is black evil and white good?
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Where did the name Nimitseahpah come from?
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Why does the Phantom call both Christina and himself "Angel of Music?"
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Whose fingerprint is on the cover of "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"?
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What was the ethnicity of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights?
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Short story about a condemned organ
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If Tolkien disliked allegory, why are there so many allegorical readings of The Lord of the Rings?
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What does "atom" mean in Don Quixote?
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Do the *books* show that Hogwarts is in Scotland?
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Medieval England story - "Step in, Step Inn", "Good Morning, Good Knight"
Awarded Aug 8, 2022 at 16:47
Who said "Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing"?
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Meaning of Lorca's "Romance sonámbulo"?
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What is the meaning of "Not even Jonah’s wife would swallow that story" in Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera"?
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What did Gray mean by "where ignorance is bliss, / 'tis folly to be wise"?
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How old is Romeo?
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How much time did one canto in Dante's Divine Comedy represent (if any)?
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Earliest work of fiction in which characters using telepathy can't lie
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What's with the beyond-casual introduction of "stone-giants" in The Hobbit?
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Significance of the Pardoner's hair style
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What is the origin of epigraphs?
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Meaning of the title "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"
Awarded Apr 16, 2022 at 12:17
Ray Bradbury says Fahrenheit 451 isn't about censorship. Is he right?
Awarded Apr 1, 2022 at 0:37
What was the first book that explicitly used "A Hero's Journey" as a checklist?
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What is the Neverending Story's moral about power?
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In Huxley's Island, what is a "bass thurible?"
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Meaning of "I shut my tongue against my fly"
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What does it mean to "floor peculiarities parabolous" in conics, from The Pirates of Penzance?
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Why does Tom Sawyer forget what "ransom" means?
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Use of 'Genius' in Nicholas Nickleby?
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Which traits of Milton's Lucifer from "Paradise Lost" did Neil Gaiman carry to "The Sandman"?
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What did Scout mean when she said "It takes a woman to do that kind of work"?
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Reference for author of "The earth has music for those who listen"
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Is John Milton's Lucifer a tragic hero?
Awarded Jan 27, 2022 at 14:57
What classic mystery novels and stories led to "the butler did it" becoming a cliché?
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Term for intentionally impressing different meanings on different audiences
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Has a parody of a work of literature ever become more successful than the original work?
Awarded Jan 4, 2022 at 13:08
How can Gilgamesh be one-third man and two-thirds god?
Awarded Jan 3, 2022 at 14:42
Why does the Iliad start "in the middle"?
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How did Ibsen's writing in A Doll's House influence the James Joyce character Molly Bloom?
Awarded Dec 20, 2021 at 11:05
Which flood story was first: Genesis or The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Awarded Dec 13, 2021 at 12:26
Did the recipient receive twelve partridges or just one?
Awarded Dec 5, 2021 at 4:03
What Confederate counterfactual story features Florida as an independent tourist republic?
Awarded Dec 2, 2021 at 18:50
What's the evidence for "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" being secretly set in Edinburgh?
Awarded Nov 30, 2021 at 12:55
What is the historical basis for Roark's claim about the Parthenon?
Awarded Nov 29, 2021 at 12:40
Did Thoreau respond to claims that he was an anarchist?
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