I remember reading a story in the nineties, probably published in the eighties or a bit earlier. It involved a sinister villain trapping some kids in a cave full of hibernating rattlesnakes. There was either a river in the cave or a flashflood at the end that enabled the kids to escape, and the...

I heard a description of a book in 2015 or 2016 in school. The target audience was probably 8-12 years old, but the teacher did say that it was more difficult than the other choices to read for 6th graders (which included Dark Life). This book was about a really smart teenager (I believe 17) who...

QUESTIONS I would like to know if I understood correctly that "metatextuality / metareference / metareferentiality" are synonyms and can be used interchangeably. Finally I summarize what I think the their main functions are. SHORT DEFINITION There is "metatextuality / metareference / metare...

I'm struggling to grasp the difference between the literary devices of recurrence and equivalence. I'm preparing for an exam where we are asked to define these terms. In German, they are referred to as "Rekurrenz / Äquivalenz". In my understanding so far, both are a form of foregrounded regular...

I was talking to some late modernist British poets, and they claimed that their poetry, the underground, was out of energy. Energy, especially Olsonian energy, being key to poetic success in much late modernist poetry. I'm not sure if the same can be said for American poetry. l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e poet...