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...lessons. Robert McCloskey’s beloved children’s book “Make Way for Ducklings” offers one of the “purest examples of irony” through its use of free indirect style. The same technique also allows the fiction reader to inhabit a young girl’s confusion in Henry James’s novel “What Maisie Knew.” The juxtaposition is a touch precious—just a sappy soundtrack away from a literary criticism Hallmark moment—but it plays into Wood?...
...first founders of the postmodern school of poetry known in the United States as the Language poets. Much of her original works of the 1970s period, including “Extremities” (1978) and “The Invention of Hunger” (1979), strove to allow the reader to create a personalized experience through verse. Even though her poetry addresses different topics now, many of the more recent poems shared at the reading had this same element. “I now have a son in his 20s, but when he was younger I ended up watching cartoons...
...marine’s death, and that she . She later said she was surprised that Filkins had dedicated the book to the slain soldier, for this signified his “acknowledging that there’s something he did.” Payne said she became an avid reader of Filkins’s articles while her brother was on tour in Iraq, because she used them to keep up with news of her brother. “The articles were really good because they said things that [her brother] would never say,” she said...
...from her daughter-in-law knowing that “there will be moments now when Susan will doubt herself, calling out Christopher, are you sure you haven’t seen my shoe?” While Olive’s actions may be shocking, they make the reader admire her for creating a unique way to find joy and amusement from her shear disappointment of losing her son to a woman she neither likes nor trusts. After completing “Olive Kitteridge,” I decided that my fears of living alone are not foolish...
...without warning into explicit renditions of the testimonies. As accounts of death, cruelty, and violence become an unshakeable, inescapable part of the narrator, wreaking havoc on his psyche, he too shares in the same experience of the Indians who survived the genocide. Just like the witness to genocide, the reader of genocide becomes “not complete in the mind.”Moya depicts the confused mind of his protagonist using run-on sentences that can span several pages. The narrator’s thoughts may begin with the humorously carnal—“That Sunday...