When I was looking for calls for papers, I was excited to see one devoted to Georgette Heyer as a romance writer!

I was also rather amused that this cfp for an issue dedicated to the Mayan apocalypse on Dec 2012 won't be coming out until May of 2013. WE'LL ALL BE GONE BY THEN!!! lol

La Vie Electrique: Written in 1892, this futuristic story ( Read more... )

I know, all of you are dying to read my term papers. RIGHT?? :P But I think this one's fun. It's all about fanfic, pop fiction, and the EVIL ACADEMY THAT'S HOLDING THEM DOWN!! lol It's full of generalizations and highly wrought language, but it makes a point. :)

( Fan Fiction and Power in the Literary Academy )

The following Tragedy is, in many respects, imitated from M. LE MIERRE's celebrated Drama, entitled, LA VEUVE DU MALABAR, which had a most uncommonly long run in Paris, and which is now become, in a translation, a favourite Tragedy of the German:--Such being the case, the Authoress feels it necessary to apologise for not having contented herself ( Read more... )

When the sheep are in fold, and the cows are at home ( Read more... )

I'm reading a book on Tolkien's sources for a book review project for my bibliography and methods class. One of the early chapters talks about how one needs in a source study not only to make a good argument for the source, but also to explain why the author's use of that source is significant. It's not enough to say "he used the story of Ceyx and ( Read more... )

(a couple from last quarter ( Read more... )

Okay, it is well past time to clean off tabs.

( Below the cut: a glimpse into the future, a thing called a thing, and the smallest known vertebrate! )

My prof for my creative writing class said that she assumed all the CW majors had this particular book (Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway) and was familiar with it, and if any of us didn't have it (it may ONLY be me in that class; i don't know) we needed to buy it and read certain chapters. So mine arrived this week, and ( Read more... )

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad ( Read more... )

You know, I had begun to come to the belief that what we term "great literature" is simply literature that has so many unanswered questions that critics can argue endlessly about what it REALLY means. Shakespeare has this quality, as does Chaucer. Now I have proof that my theory is true.

Chaucer's longest single poem [Troilus and Criseyde] is his ( Read more... )