This is post 3 of 6 in the series “The Great Gatsby” All literary analysis articles about The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle The Great Gatsby: characters and characterization The Great Gatsby: the Romantic Quest Structure and …
My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules: A writer must not shift your point of view. A writer should not alienate half his readers by using gender-specific language. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration. Always pick on the correct idiom. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake. And don’t …
This is post 4 of 5 in the series “History of American Literature” History of American Literature Puritanism : a New World Vision An authentically American Literature American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence The American Renaissance American Modernism in literature Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson’s literary and philosophical importance in the American Renaissance and after …