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Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844, the eldest of nine children. Though he had won a poetry contest at school, he was devoutly...

Passion? Austen? What does that even mean? Passion in terms of a love between heroine and hero, and how it is presented to the reader by...

Taking Aristotle as his starting point, Canadian academic Northrop Frye, in his ground-breaking book Anatomy of Criticism , classifies...

Examining female characters in fiction, one can hardly escape noticing a particular pattern in many of them. Ranging from figures such as...

As we have seen in How Stories Really Work , there are four basic genres, each growing out of the kind of effect a writer wants to...

If we go back to mythology and folklore, the hero of a story can have superhuman qualities and is often semi-divine in origin - in...

It seems that there are two broad breeds of fiction writer: those who write, and those who think about being a writer and perhaps...

Canadian Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was one of the most influential literary critics and theorists of the...