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We All Complete…But Not All Of Us Truly Live — Metaphors of Existence in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new…

Apr 6

We All Complete…But Not All Of Us Truly Live — Metaphors of Existence in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Apr 6

An Inivtation to Re-Read Pride and Prejudice (in case you forgot to do so!)

In John Keats’ famous short poem, “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again,” he remarks that

Mar 21

Mar 21

The Godfather of Dark Academia: The Ghost Stories of M.R. James

M.R. James, the writer of a highly cultivated series of ghost stories, including the once-famous Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904)…

Dec 22, 2024

The Godfather of Dark Academia: The Ghost Stories of M.R. James

Dec 22, 2024

The Gothic Jane Austen: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Creation of Mary: A Fiction(1788)

In 1785, Mary Wollstonecraft’s life seemed at its lowest ebb. Her dearest friend, Fanny Blood, had died in Portugal after a long illness…

Dec 13, 2024

The Gothic Jane Austen: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Creation of Mary: A Fiction(1788)

Dec 13, 2024

The Novel That Inspired The Hobbit — and Created a Genre In Its Wake: George MacDonald’s The…

For many readers, the genre of modern fantasy begins with J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 children’s novel, The Hobbit, which famously opens with…

Dec 2, 2024

The Novel That Inspired The Hobbit — and Created a Genre In Its Wake: George MacDonald’s The…

Dec 2, 2024

Refusing to Read: A Hunger Strike of the Soul, a Vow of Intellectual Celibacy

In a recent Freshman Composition course, a student had a question about our first reading assignment, a short 8–9 page essay in our class…

Jun 23, 2024

Refusing to Read: A Hunger Strike of the Soul, a Vow of Intellectual Celibacy

Jun 23, 2024

Wherever You Are Is Someone’s Somewhere Else: Or, Why It’s Okay To Settle Down and Not Move Up

Why is a direction the guiding metaphor for our entire lives? Think about it: what is it about “up” that makes it so appealing?…couldn’t…

Dec 28, 2023

Wherever You Are Is Someone’s Somewhere Else: Or, Why It’s Okay To Settle Down and Not Move Up

Dec 28, 2023

How I Forgot to Flunk My First Semester of College and Found My Life in a Humanities Textbook

Oct 22, 2023

How I Forgot to Flunk My First Semester of College and Found My Life in a Humanities Textbook

Oct 22, 2023

The Novel That Launched a Thousand Childhoods: Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine (and what it means to…

Note: all passages from the Bantam/Doubleday edition of the book (1976)

Aug 3, 2023

The Novel That Launched a Thousand Childhoods: Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine (and what it means to…

Aug 3, 2023

Fanny Price: Jane Austen’s Greatest Heroine? Or an Insufferable Prude?

Of all of Austen’s novels, Mansfield Park (1814) gets precious little attention and far too little love. Why? Actually, I’m somewhat at a…

Jul 2, 2023

Fanny Price: Jane Austen’s Greatest Heroine? Or an Insufferable Prude?

Jul 2, 2023

Joshua Grasso

Joshua Grasso

English professor at East Central University (OK); PhD from Miami University (OH); eternal student and lover of books

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