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Some months ago I took part in a women-only run. I felt insulted when, opening the bag that I was given when I enrolled, I found a Harmony book. I don't know if you have them in your country. Here in...

My answer to the first question is yes. He has become one of my favourite poets since reading "Fern Hill". I think his best known poems are "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" and "Fern Hill". He...

The reason why I don't believe in God is that I can't love God. I don't have that love in me, I think. I was brought up as a Catholic, my family is Catholic, I attend a Catholic University in which...

Actually, now that I come to think about it, the question was not so much about rhetoric devices as it was about Antony's persuasive strategy. I can easily recognise the main rhetoric figures in a...

Hi everyone!
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a tragedy I love passionately. I'm sweating on it and on other Shakespeare's plays (namely, Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra) for an exam I have...

I don't think that's Goethe's idea of literature. It's true that he was suspicious of patriotism and that he resisted the label of "national poet", nonetheless, he was proud of being German. His idea...

These are the first ones that come to my mind. Two of them are complete lyrics, so they're not proper quotes.

I'm an alligator,
I'm a mama-papa coming for you.
(Moonage Daydream by David Bowie)...

I see what you mean. I made a similar example when I said that I enjoy Goethe, even though he's German. But, to me, Whitman is quite a different story.
When he writes of grass, you know it's...

I’m attending this course, American Culture and Anthropology. Last week we read some poems by Walt Whitman and listened to some on youtube. I totally loved them, Song of Myself in particular. I was...

Exactly. That's what I'm trying to do, I know I have to enlighten these similarities by putting them into something bigger. As a writer, Palahniuk must have read a lot and he has probably been...

I agree. Some of his novels I enjoyed, such as Fight Club, Survivor, Choke and, to a certain extent, Beautiful Monsters, I even went through a Chuck Palahniuk phase when I was 13, but then he got...

I'm working on a paper and I would like to draw a parallelism between Kerouac's On the Road and Palahniuk's Fight Club, but I'm wondering whether the elements that I think these two novels have in...

Since Zola has been mentioned, why not try Giovanni Verga, too? I would suggest his novella Rosso Malpelo, or even his History of Capinera, both of which are very sad stories.

Grapes of Wrath, by J. Steinbeck. I developed very strong feelings towards the members of this family, and my attachment to some of them in particular grew so intense that it surprised me. I wish...

Well, I think movies based on novels should keep as close to the original as possibile (although I realise it is impossible to be 100% faithful, since, as you said, literature and cinema are two...

Among the things I had to read as a Literature student, these I found particularly helpful:
-Literature, Theory and Common Sense by Antoine Compagnon
-European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages...

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard. In the preface the author says:" This book is always a narrative, a story that is intimate, personal, lived through, a young man...

I apologize for this delay, and thank you very much for your reply to my message!
If I can find it I'm going to check out the book you suggested, even though I must admit the fact that it has been...

The reason why I'm starting this thread is that I am literally electrified by the following, astonishing discovery of mine: I've just came across (lucky me!) J. D. Salinger's last published work,...

uff...I still haven't got hold of an English copy. I should have placed an order for it as soon as I read you were about to discuss this novel...Tomorrow I'm leaving for Amsterdam: either I find a...

This last statement of yours I find it hard to agree with.
If the self-expression of the artist is the ultimate value, then art becomes worthless because there's no measure according to which we can...

A western kinsman of the sun, Dean. Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon, and believe it at my young age; and a little bit of...

I second Heteronym.
I used to agree with the Art for Art's Sake motto, but then I read Booth's The Rethoric of Fiction and changed my mind.
Booth shows how hypocritical such a vision is. No matter...

thank you all for your pieces of advice!
Yesterday I borrowed Nooteboom's Rituals and started it. Even though I'm only at page 41, I have enjoyed the reading so far. I'm plannig to check out some...

I think A Portrait of a Lady by Jane Campion and Sense and Sensibility by Ang Lee (and screenplayed by Emma Thompson) are two of the best novel adaptations I can think of. A Beautiful Mind is very...