Literature

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Is there any deeper significance to the Borges story "The End"?
Awarded Dec 19, 2023 at 6:27
What's the significance of The Idiot in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian?
Awarded Dec 12, 2023 at 17:42
Where did Asimov say this quote, about women becoming lawyers vs doctors or engineers because math was not required?
Awarded Dec 11, 2023 at 16:18
Is Judaism represented in the Narnia books?
Awarded Dec 5, 2023 at 17:10
Why Pallas in "The Raven"?
Awarded Nov 30, 2023 at 20:36
Does “The Picture of Dorian Gray” contain any explicit content?
Awarded Nov 30, 2023 at 2:11
Meaning of "the way they used to use up old women, in Russia, sweeping dirt" in "The Handmaid's Tale"
Awarded Nov 24, 2023 at 7:47
Why did Hamlet tell Ophelia: "Get thee to a nunnery!"?
Awarded Nov 22, 2023 at 16:58
Is there any evidence for a gay relationship in The Merchant of Venice?
Awarded Nov 17, 2023 at 1:18
Why does the prophecy imply Macbeth has to murder the king?
Awarded Nov 16, 2023 at 0:02
Meaning of "the field was found to be plowed as thoroughly as any young man at Oxford" in 'The Book of Dragons'
Awarded Nov 15, 2023 at 8:04
How do you report stolen library books to the library?
Awarded Nov 14, 2023 at 20:08
Is there a name for the literary device in the expression "Thanks, I hate it."?
Awarded Nov 14, 2023 at 17:04
Why is the Emperor Beyond the Sea named that?
Awarded Nov 13, 2023 at 19:25
What does "his name is my name too" mean in "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"?
Awarded Nov 12, 2023 at 3:26
Zhuangzi translation in The Lathe of Heaven
Awarded Nov 11, 2023 at 22:16
Meaning of "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed" in "Ozymandias"
Awarded Nov 11, 2023 at 21:26
John Agard's "In Times of Peace"
Awarded Nov 9, 2023 at 20:21
Why did literary critic Harold Bloom say something that didn't correspond to reality regarding Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
Awarded Nov 6, 2023 at 12:58
Reference for author of "The earth has music for those who listen"
Awarded Oct 29, 2023 at 20:27
Why did Stephen King choose room number 217?
Awarded Oct 27, 2023 at 23:56
What is the meaning of Benjamin the donkey's cryptic answer?
Awarded Oct 27, 2023 at 16:41
What happened on April 22, 1838?
Awarded Oct 23, 2023 at 18:01
What does "snapped out, made accidental, isolated, like ghosts" mean in "The Great Gatsby"?
Awarded Oct 14, 2023 at 15:37
Why is C.S. Lewis so concerned with being locked into a wardrobe?
Awarded Oct 13, 2023 at 15:36
Why did Robert Plant call "Stairway to Heaven" a "song of hope"?
Awarded Oct 12, 2023 at 17:48
How does Emeth's presence in Aslan's Country in The Last Battle fit in with the rest of C. S. Lewis's theology?
Awarded Oct 12, 2023 at 9:49
What is Meursault's problem with the heat?
Awarded Oct 1, 2023 at 22:26
Contrasting depictions of Asians in Tintin
Awarded Sep 19, 2023 at 12:08
What does "an affront to the common store of life" mean here?
Awarded Sep 10, 2023 at 20:52
What does "N. takes M." mean in "Emma"?
Awarded Sep 4, 2023 at 16:11
Dickens invented the scary clown?
Awarded Sep 3, 2023 at 17:36
Why is the Star of the County Down referred to as Colleen?
Awarded Sep 3, 2023 at 9:11
What does this excerpt from "To Kill a Mockingbird" about Atticus shooting the dog mean?
Awarded Aug 29, 2023 at 13:35
Censorship of African-American characters in "Tintin in America"
Awarded Aug 28, 2023 at 13:18
Why does Rebeca kill José Arcadio in One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Awarded Aug 28, 2023 at 12:05
Was the Charles Calthrop plot-element in The Day of the Jackal an example of pure coincidence or good detection?
Awarded Aug 25, 2023 at 17:51
What does "grinning" mean in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen"?
Awarded Aug 23, 2023 at 19:15
Did Mark Twain say the two most important days of our life are the day we're born and the day we find out why?
Awarded Aug 23, 2023 at 1:26
Who said that history is a lie/fable agreed upon?
Awarded Aug 22, 2023 at 3:31
Where did Charles Dickens come up with the name "Magwitch"?
Awarded Aug 20, 2023 at 21:42
Is the beginning of "Their Eyes Were Watching God" drawing a comparison of men and women?
Awarded Aug 16, 2023 at 15:46
Why did the alexandrine become the "natural" metre for French verse drama, whereas English renaissance drama adopted the iambic pentameter?
Awarded Aug 14, 2023 at 12:48
Who or what is the subject of Andrea Bocelli's "Gloria the Gift of Life"?
Awarded Aug 10, 2023 at 21:22
Romeo and Juliet: Why is honey loathsome in its deliciousness?
Awarded Aug 5, 2023 at 15:51
What is the significance of the names Mersault and Meursault?
Awarded Aug 3, 2023 at 7:04
If Phileas Fogg had a clock that showed the exact date and time, why didn't he realize that he had arrived a day early?
Awarded Jul 25, 2023 at 17:47
Meaning/significance of "All the King's horses" in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme?
Awarded Jun 20, 2023 at 9:55
What does Dream's ruby represent?
Awarded Jun 14, 2023 at 17:50
Does Don Quijote in fact say "Facts are the enemy of truth"?
Awarded Jun 14, 2023 at 9:32
Whose fingerprint is on the cover of "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind"?
Awarded Jun 6, 2023 at 3:37
What's the significance of the T. S. Eliot reference in Catch-22?
Awarded Jun 2, 2023 at 3:25
What does "if we had room for him" mean in "The Great Gatsby"?
Awarded Jun 1, 2023 at 9:06
How can someone be of two nationalities during the First World War?
Awarded May 25, 2023 at 1:32
Understanding the last lines from Oscar Wilde’s The Model Millionaire
Awarded May 24, 2023 at 12:34
Is Deeper Magic something more than God (the Emperor beyond the Sea) in Narnia?
Awarded May 17, 2023 at 20:12
How did the man going from/coming to St Ives have seven wives?
Awarded May 16, 2023 at 18:51
Is House of Leaves' ergodicity preserved as a digital text?
Awarded May 16, 2023 at 10:11
What is the name of a short story where a computer insists 2+2 is 5?
Awarded May 6, 2023 at 13:26
Can a ceiling have a front door that had once been a front door?
Awarded May 3, 2023 at 17:06
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