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Questions regarding the meaning of certain terms or phrases used in a work of literature. If your question concerns the symbolic significance of something whose surface meaning is clear, use the [symbolism] tag instead. Please add specific tags as well: for the author (if known), the language (if not English), and either the work itself (if long) or the [poetry] or [short-stories] tags for short works.
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Meaning of Shell, Remove, and Hundreds in Alice Winn's In Memoriam (and other novels with pu...
Alice Winn's In Memoriam (2023) is partly set in an English public school around the outbreak of World War I. Toward the beginning of the novel, the narrator states:
Preshute was a younger public sch …
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Understanding a sentence in The Church of Dead Girls
New York: Henry Holt, 1997. p. 233
I am unable to pin down the meaning of the second quoted sentence. What is the antecedent of the "that" in antepenultimate position? …
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How to parse "the release of the want of the want of release"?
The phrase probably is intentionally ambiguous, but I would be grateful for its meaning(s) being unpacked, particularly as they relate to the novel as a whole. …
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Parsing Paradise Lost XI.48–57
What is a grammatical yet comprehensible way to make meaning of every part of this passage? …
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Meaning of "on the dreary littorals of Alexandria, with her sex broken" in Durrell's Justine
I'm unable to figure out the meaning of this sentence in Lawrence Durrell's Justine:
I found Melissa, washed up like a half-drowned bird, on the dreary littorals of Alexandria, with her sex broken.... … Is any of these alternatives the intended meaning? If so, how? If not, what does the sentence mean? …
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What is the meaning of "to go buy oil" in Manto's "Mummy"?
My wife did not understand its meaning, but she began to laugh. Somewhat at a loss, the servant said, "No, sahib, I ... was searching out where the glasses might be." … And since the wife doesn't grasp the meaning either, it's probably something crude. …
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Origin and significance of E-I-E-I-O in the Old MacDonald song
The well-known children's song "Old MacDonald had a Farm" has lyrics in the following format:
Old MacDonald had a farm
E-I-E-I-O !
And on that farm he had {article} {singular or plural creatures}
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What does "Catholic privilege" mean in Pym's Excellent Women?
The narrator of Barbara Pym's Excellent Women is Mildred Lathburn, a clergyman's daughter in 1950s London. Here, Mildred's Welsh cleaning lady, Mrs. Morris, is complaining half-humorously about the Hi …
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