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BBC releases first look at period drama Miss Austen

Harpers Bazaar 15 Nov 2024
Hornby used this enigma as a compelling plot device, reimagining the story as a lively yet heart-breaking tale of sisterly love ... How Sally Rooney became a leading literary voice ... Join us at the Bazaar Literary Salon.
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The Daily Bread of Rome: The Apple of Discord Between Romans and the Bakers

Roman Empire Times 14 Nov 2024
Bread thus served both literally and metaphorically as a catalyst for social stability or unrest, making it an ideal literary device to explore the values and moral tensions across Roman social ...
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Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, EIEIO

Oakridger 08 Nov 2024
There are spoilers ahead ... Shannon Rapp & Will Eisenberg. Editor ... AMA (31A ... Author-as-character literary device) This clue does a nice, succinct job of describing the literary device of SELF-INSERTION ... Author-as-character literary device)EINSTEIN BROS.
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Limitless Is Preposterous but Enjoyable If You Turn Off Your Brain

Rotten Tomatoes 07 Nov 2024
Limitless is an adaptation of a novel about a struggling writer who becomes a successful writer, so it’s appropriate that it opens with a flurry of literary devices faithfully translated to film.
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Rebecca Davis: Daily Maverick's head gossip and queen of petty on former President Zuma and ...

Independent online (SA) 06 Nov 2024
His deliberate style and “forgetfulness” weren’t signs of incoherence, as Davis gleefully reports, but a clever literary device—a tool to remind his audience of the country’s forgotten injustices, ...
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‘I’ve stumbled deep into alien territory’: our sportswriters and arts critics swap jobs

The Observer 04 Nov 2024
To suggest, as James perhaps does too, that the entire drama might be taking place in the mind of an unstable female (Women! What are they like?!) isn’t complex or a brilliant literary device; it’s ...
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From Miriam Gold to Bendor Grosvenor: new books reviewed in short

New Statesman 30 Oct 2024
The Invention of British Art by Bendor Grosvenor ... By Michael Prodger. Elliott & Thompson, 384pp, £40 ... She relates the literary device to moments of real-life understanding, when outsiders come to realise the weight of Palestinians’ suffering ... Say ... Elena.
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Malcolm Gladwell’s cult of smartness

New Statesman 14 Oct 2024
Malcolm Gladwell’s international bestseller The Tipping Point (2000) concluded with a message of rational optimism. ... One of Gladwell’s most characteristic literary devices is addressing his readers as if they were much like himself ... Malcolm Gladwell.
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How Romans Viewed the Greeks: From Conquest to Cultural Fusion

Roman Empire Times 13 Oct 2024
Romans were conflicted in their view of the Greeks ... Mycenaean Lady from Knossos. Credits ... Virgil uses the literary device of priamel—where a series of statements lead up to an emphasized final point—to deliver Anchises' prophecy ... ....
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Samsung invests into Liner, an AI bot for students and academics

Hindustan Times 10 Oct 2024
Students can ask complex queries like “what are the key literary devices in Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy and what is their significance,” or “How do you calculate the heat loss through a ...
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10 Years After ‘Milk and Honey’: A New Era of Accessible Poetry

The Harvard Crimson 01 Oct 2024
To say Rupi Kaur’s debut collection, “Milk and Honey,” is mediocre would be an understatement ... I was amazed ... It also helped that I understood Kaur — she never made me search through complicated literary devices to get to her thesis. I just got it ... .
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Lesedi Molefi’s Patient 12A is a whirlpool of consciousness

Mail Guardian South Africa 01 Oct 2024
You shouldn’t have to survive your parents. You shouldn’t have to survive yourself ... The most ubiquitous and immersive device in the memoir is “the noise”, the literary and internal universe Molefi steeps us in ... ....
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Green Library Special Collections: The magic of medieval manuscripts

Stanford Daily 24 Sep 2024
For a research paper in HISTORY 113P ... The Book of Wisdom captures the nature of wisdom, righteousness and mortality. Both compositions of Hebrew poetry are replete with complex metaphors, symbolism and other literary devices ... Print Article. .
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Joy and Community Are Essential to Jewish Fulfillment — Even in the Darkest of Times

The Algemeiner 20 Sep 2024
Opinion. A Torah scroll. Photo. RabbiSacks.org. In his evocative 1964 book, Letters to Malcolm. Chiefly on Prayer, C.S ... By using this intimate literary device, Lewis made his profound insights more accessible to a broad audience ... How do we do it? ... Dr ... .
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Sally Rooney’s adventures in style

New Statesman 19 Sep 2024
The sex scenes in her novels are so punctual that they are almost a metronomic device. The problem for a literary novelist is to justify them, to make them seem as though they are not just about sex – or rather, that sex is about something.

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