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Willing Suspension of Disbelief : When Dragons Make Sense and Dead Men Talk: The Art of Believing the Unbelievable

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A Literary Trick So Smooth, Even Ghosts Got Good Reviews There once was a man who believed you could have philosophical conversations with albatrosses, write poems about ancient mariners, and still be taken seriously by 19th-century readers in top hats. His name? Samuel Taylor Coleridge. And he had a problem. Not with laudanum (well, also […]

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LIT Theory 007 Ecocriticism in Literature: Reading Nature as Text

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From Pastoral Reverie to Planetary Grief—How Literature Listens When Nature Speaks From The Professor’s Desk The Roots Beneath the Text Literary criticism, for centuries, has walked through drawing rooms, courtrooms, battlefields, and broken hearts—but seldom through forests. While love, power, identity, and rebellion have commanded the interpretive spotlight, the rustling of leaves, the groan of

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