Content tagged with books

Articles

• 2020 Book Recommendations
  Recommendations from books I read and liked in 2020.
  • books
  • reading
  • 2020
• Books as Places
  Books are not only physical objects. They take up space and so they are places.
  • writing
  • self-publishing
  • books
• Son of Cain
  Thoughts on Steinbeck's East of Eden and a poem inspired by the story of Cain and Abel.
  • poetry
  • writing
  • literature
  • books
  • east-of-eden
• The Novelized Epic: Dialogue and Laughter in The Lord of the Rings
  In The Lord of the Rings the combined elements of the epic and the novel do not result in an unapproachable epic; instead, The Lord of the Rings as a novel liberates the epic genre from “all that serves as a brake on [its] unique development," creating an amalgamation of the two forms in dialogue with one another, a novelized epic.
  • Bakhtin
  • The-Lord-of-the-Rings
  • dialogue
  • literary-criticism
  • laughter
  • books