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The narrator, commenting on the antics of his own literary creation, named Justin Horgenschlag, remarks sarcastically: “You can’t expect Collier’s readers to swallow that kind of bilge.” [12] Significantly, “The Heart of a Broken Story” was accepted for publication in Esquire—and not Collier’s. [13]
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh ...
BALLOONS Lit. Journal (BLJ) is a free Hong-Kong-based electronic literary journal of English poetry, prose and artwork. It was founded in 2014 [1] by Ho-cheung Lee with Ricci Fong as the editorial advisor. Its current advisory board includes scholars Gary Harfitt, Ricci Fong, Lancy Tam Suk-yin and Simon Tham.
Cover of the first edition of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal (1729). Cannibalism comes up frequently in European literature during the High Middle Ages.The symbolism of cannibalism and representation of cannibals is used "as a literary response to the politics of external conquest, internal colonization, and territorial consolidation".
The epigraph may serve as a preface to the work; as a summary; as a counter-example; or as a link from the work to a wider literary canon, [2] with the purpose of either inviting comparison or enlisting a conventional context. [3] A book may have an overall epigraph that is part of the front matter, or one for each chapter.
Literary Research Guide is a reference work that annotates and evaluates important research materials related to English literature and English literary studies. The first edition appeared in 1989 and the fifth edition was published in 2008. These editions were printed books and the work was digitalized into an electronic version c. 2008.
For example, referring to actions of the U.S. president as "actions of the White House". Antonomasia - A kind of metonymy in which an epithet or phrase takes the place of a proper name. Synecdoche – A literary device, related to metonymy and metaphor, which creates a play on words by referring to something with a related concept. For example ...
ELH (English Literary History) is an academic journal established in 1934 at Johns Hopkins University, devoted to the study of major works in the English language, particularly British literature. It covers developments in literature through historical, critical, and theoretical methods. The current senior editor is Jeanne-Marie Jackson.