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What Is Conflict in Literature? By Grace Fleming Thought Co. Basically we can define conflict as a struggle between opposing forces - two characters, a character and nature, or even an internal struggle - conflict provides a level of angst into a story that engages the reader and makes him or her invested in finding out what happens. So how do you best create conflict? First, you need to underst..

There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Armin Katherine Mansfield Henry Oliver The Critic. 17 April, 2022 “We can’t possibly have a garden party with a man dead just outside the front gate.” This is the sort of exceptional writing you get when you read Katherine Mansfield. It’s from her 1922 short story The Garden Pa..

‘The Waste Land’, a Century On Barry Spurr, Quadrant's Literary Editor Quadrant 12th April, 2022 Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of those creative artists who were born at precisely the right time and place, in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. And, we might add, in propitious familial circumstances. The timing was right, because it meant that he came to manhood in the very period that the Romantic move..

ベトナム語ほど面白い言語はない 【礒﨑敦仁のコリア・ウオッチング】 礒﨑敦仁 Jiji.Com, 2022年 3月 20日 同じ漢字由来、日本語・朝鮮語とも共通点 ベトナム・ホーチミン市のダウンタウンにあるショッピングセンター＝２００５年４月２５日【ＡＦＰ時事】 国際政治を専門とする大学教員が英語を話せなかったり、仏文学者がフランス語を読めなかったりしたらどう思うであろうか。北朝鮮を研究対象とするにあたって朝鮮語（韓国語）の習得が欠かせないのは言うまでもない。 私は帰国子女ではないし、下⼿の横好きではあるものの、さまざまな外国語にチャレンジしてきた。大学は英語ではなくフランス語で受験し、⼤学院受験に必要な⼆カ国語は、朝鮮語と中国語を選択した。全くモノにならなかったがロシア語を履修したこともある。 しかし、どんなに勉強しようとも、使わない語学は錆びてしまうもので、４年近く滞在した中国の言..

Books How Charles Dickens Made the Novel New A new biography argues that the year 1851 marked an artistic renewal for the author. Alamy; The Atlantic By Charlie Tyson The Atlantic, March 15, 2022 Suppose Charles Dickens had died in 1850, at age 38—perhaps in a railway accident like the crash, in 1865, that killed 10 of his fellow passengers and left his nerves permanently frayed; or, more fantas..

9 Dystopian Novels in Translation to Read Now By Words Without Borders, Jan 20, 2022 As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its second anniversary here in the US, we're looking back at another phenomenon from the past two years: the wave of dystopian novels translated into English. Below, we highlight nine of these titles—from Argentina, Egypt, Iceland, Japan, and more—in the order in which they we..

In ‘Old Poets,’ Donald Hall dished on Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot and more By Joan Frank The Washington Post December 24, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. EST It’s impossible not to love “Old Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions,” by Donald Hall, who died in 2018 at 89. This welcome new edition of a 1978 original — in which Hall recalls time spent with some of the biggest poetry-making guns of their day — is so rich..

Modern and Contemporary Korean Women Poets Featured at The Missing Slate By Harriet Staff Poetry Foundation Over the weekend at The Missing Slate, Ae Hee Lee and Emily Jungmin Yoon published a sampler of poetry by modern and contemporary Korean women poets, featuring Kang Ŭn-gyo, Kim Hyesoon, Kim Yideum, and No Ch’ŏn-myŏng. Ae Hee Lee introduces the portfolio by weighing the decision to use "wom..

Literature as System: On Yuri Tynianov By Marjorie Perloff LARB OCTOBER 28, 2021 Among the disciplines that study culture, literary history continues to languish in the position of a colonial territory. On the one hand, it is ruled to a large extent by an individual psychological approach […] whereby the question of authorial psychology unjustifiably supplants the question of literature per se, ..

At the Corner of Byron and Shelley Poetry and philhellenism at the Greek bicentennial By A. E. Stallings American Scholar September 16, 2021 Byron Street in Athens pays tribute to Lord Byron’s contribution to the Greek war for independence, which he wrote about in his poetry. (John Psaropoulos) I was walking down Byron Street one day this past spring, heading to the post office in downtown Athen..