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Is the white man at the other side of the Joliba river a historically identifiable person?
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Did Virginia Woolf read The Yellow Wallpaper before publishing Mrs. Dalloway?
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What do literary critics mean when they say a text is overdetermined?
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In which interview did Camus say that Meursault is the only Christ we deserved?
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When did Aristotle's Poetics first become available in England?
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Who coined the term "omniscient narrator"?
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Meaning of «Ah! les Bazaine» in La chute / The Fall
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What is the nature of the relationship between Madeleine and the Comte de Vaudrec in Bel-Ami?
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Meaning of ché in several French or Martiniquan Creole phrases in Wide Sargasso Sea
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Who are "the sons of Brutus" in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy?
Awarded Aug 17, 2022 at 13:02
Where can I find R. K. Narayan's maiden speech to the Indian parliament?
Awarded Aug 7, 2022 at 17:49
Necessity or benefits of reading Livy before Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy?
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Did Dorothy Parker really say Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged should be thrown with great force?
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How did Ursula Le Guin translate the Tao Te Ching / Dao De Jing?
Awarded Feb 24, 2022 at 18:15
What is the difference between emotions and feelings in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads?
Awarded Feb 7, 2022 at 5:11
How did the Greeks anger Pallas Athena?
Awarded Oct 15, 2021 at 5:05
What is the difference between emotions and feelings in Eliot's essay Tradition and the Individual Talent?
Awarded Oct 14, 2021 at 17:12
What is the internal order of Christopher Tolkien's last three books in the Middle-earth legendarium?
Awarded Aug 18, 2021 at 13:42
Did George R. R. Martin read Romance of The Three Kingdoms?
Awarded Jun 2, 2021 at 13:06
Why would birds fall from the sky due to a lack of moisture?
Awarded May 31, 2021 at 15:11
What literary work is being referred to in this limerick in which "The earth, like an orange, is blue"?
Awarded May 17, 2021 at 13:00
In what Chinese fairy tale does a painter disappear into his own painting?
Awarded May 11, 2021 at 23:35
How is the Czechoslovak traveller's story relevant to The Stranger as a whole?
Awarded Apr 23, 2021 at 0:17
Why was Fontane's copy of Thackeray's Vanity Fair confiscated by English customs?
Awarded Apr 16, 2021 at 18:57
Zhuangzi translation in The Lathe of Heaven
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Origin of symbolic interpretation of Prospero's breaking of his staff?
Awarded Feb 17, 2021 at 22:31
In what way is The Lord of the Rings metafiction?
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Do the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh really contain the same rare proverb about the strength of a triple-stranded rope?
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Difference between editions of A Game of Thrones from 2016
Awarded Nov 14, 2020 at 18:46
Is there a specific order to read Ursula Le Guin's novels and stories?
Awarded May 15, 2020 at 18:56
How might Shakespeare have become familiar with Dante's work?
Awarded Apr 30, 2020 at 16:17
Why did the alexandrine become the "natural" metre for French verse drama, whereas English renaissance drama adopted the iambic pentameter?
Awarded Apr 3, 2020 at 2:50
Is Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984 an unreliable narrator?
Awarded Mar 13, 2020 at 2:25
When did people begin to regard Gulliver's Travels as a children's book?
Awarded Jun 30, 2019 at 20:00
How do people "kiss their teeth" in Nalo Hopkinson's novels?
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