Literary Criticism
You’ll find literary analysis & criticism throughout ryc.space. Some is found in my brief guide to College English, yet most is found in my study of agnosticism (Gospel & Universe) and my look at the Ukraine War (Crisis 22). The pages below are selected because they deal with specific writers and specific literary texts.
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AGNOSTICISM — from Gospel & Universe
“A Whiter Shade of Pale” ❧ The Epic Heroine ❧ The Wine-Dark Sea ❧ The Miller ❧ Neptune ❧ The Queen of Love ❧ Beyond Alienation”❧ Myth & Mysticism
Dickens’ Bleak House ❧ A Misty Maze, But Not Without a Plan ❧ Pope: A Mighty Maze ❧ What the Dickens ❧ Love Amid the Fog ❧ God Among the Scientists ❧ Hutton’s Hammer ❧ Jardine’s Monkeys ❧ Darwin’s God ❧ A Passage to Forster ❧ From London to the Marabar Caves
Salman Rushdie ❧ Rushdie’s Sea of Stories ❧ Rise of the Simurg ❧ All the Letters Mixed Up ❧ When Religions Collide ❧ Coming Together ❧ Eruptions of the Sacred ❧ Return of the Simurg ❧ Flapping Eagle ❧ Two Adams ❧ Amina: The Rock ❧ The Poet & the Three Weird Sisters ❧ Flight of Angels
19th Century Poets ❧ Whitman’s Cosmos ❧ Byron: Carrying Sail ❧ Byron: Trickster of Change ❧ Keats’ Negative Capability ❧ Tennyson’s Ulysses
Whitman, Laozi, & Zhuangzi ❧ Introduction: Daoism & Whitman’s Transcendentalism ❧ I: The God That Has No Name ❧ A Global Picture
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POLITICS & WAR — from Crisis 22
Paradigms of Political Understanding 🟢 Fog & Shadow ☮️ Glaciers & Novels ☯️ Both In and Out of the Game ❄️ Political Modes of Being 🦋 The Tao of Putin
Postcolonialism & The Year of Living Dangerously 🕉️ Southern Paradigms 🎭 Behind the Scenes ☯️ Unified Sensibilities ⚔️ The Dangerous Years 🌪 The Eye of the Storm ✨ The Dark Which Has No End
Special Literary Operations
19th Century Russia - 🌏 Pushkin’s Brethren ☯️ War & Peace 🇫🇷 Napoléon Avait Cinq Cent Soldats ⚰️ Dead Young Men 🌘 Gogol & Co. 🧥 Two Novels and an Overcoat 😵💫 Russian Souls ✒️ Literature & Subversion
Metaphor & Symbol - ❤️ Extended Metaphor 🚥 Symbolic Landscape 🌊 Russian Horses 🐎 Magic Black Horses 🍷 Nightingales 1 ♒️ Rivers 🍏 Apples🍎 The Road to Damascus
Hamlet & Narratology - ☕️ A Point of View 🗝 The Time is Out of Joint 📺 Vicarious Experience 🪞 Mirrors 📚 4 Types of Narrative
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