The Long and Short of Things.

Ask any writer the following question: how hard is writing? Then find a comfortable seating situation, note the time, and cancel any plans that were made for the rest of the day. The point is, unless one had the uncanny luck of arbitrarily selecting a concise writer of few words, the answer to that ( Read more... )

American lit final. Part 2

Part two: The Fantastic Voyage or, Conversely, What the Bleep Do We Know?

One of the defining characteristics of Modernist writing is a sort of abstinence from expressing the personal. There is an attempt to walk the line between the interior landscape and the exterior; they try to find a balance between the ( Read more... )