I read a story once about a murder, where the killer got caught and executed. After the execution, a video (I think) was released showing that the first murder was suicide. I believe that both the 'victim' and the 'killer' were terminally ill and decided to show that dead penalties are wrong, bec...

Native American, Canadian, and Australian oral traditions The treatment of native Canadians has been in the news quite a bit lately. I would like to propose the oral traditions, myths, and literature of native Americans, Canadians, and Australians. A few examples of books I was able to find on Am...

Rohingya literature The Rohingya are a stateless people group that experiences severe persecution in Myanmar. A few examples of literature associated with the Rohingya: First, they erased our names I am a Rohingya

Native Australian stories and traditions Historically experienced significant discrimination. An example of a book is The Speaking Land: Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia by Ronald and Catherine Berndt

In his textbook Theory of Literature, Paul Fry writes at length about Jerome McGann's critique of Keats. As part of this he has this to say about the comparison between the 1819/1848 and the 1820 version of La Belle Dame Sans Merci: McGann’s argument is that the 1820 version is better because it...

I am reading the Lord of the rings. But as a non-native speaker, I found it particularly hard to visualize in my head the settings of the scenes and also the landscapes established by the author. Has anyone else encountered the same issue?