How does Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) represent the notion of self-conflict? I am looking for an analysis based on psychoanalytic literary criticism.
Note: The question How does Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird represent the notion of self-conflict? was originally abou...
According to Wikipedia, Kalevipoeg is "an epic poem by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald held to be the Estonian national epic". Kreutzwald based his epic on existing oral stories that had been passed on for centuries. However, making the work available to the general public proved to be a challenge:...
In an answer to the question Can formal essays be considered as a literature in strict sense?, I wrote that our current definition of literature
reflects a concept of literature that originated in early 19th-century romanticism and that is restricted to imaginative writing. Culler cites Madame d...
The first picaresque novel in European literature was the Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes, which was first published in 1554. The section on the sources of Lazarillo de Tormes in the Wikipedia on the genre says,
The curious presence of Russian loanwords in the text of the Lazarillo also sugges...
In the meta question How do we deal with tags in composite works such as the Bible? verbose asked,
J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands comprises two novellas, The Vietnam Project and The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee. These novellas have no characters, situations, or specific settings in common, but share ...
