I went through the story but I wonder what the title suggests and how it suits the story in regard to the protoganist Aksionov. A good innocent man is wrongly imprisoned on charge of a murder, punished for 26 years and is made to lose everything and his entire life for no fault or crime of his,...

In the suicide note of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, he talks about a story by Régnier: No one has yet written candidly of the mental state of one who is to commit suicide. This may be due to the self-respect of the suicide victim, or perhaps a lack of psychological interest in his own state of mind. ...

My question is not as opinion-based as it may sound. I am wondering about American authors who differ the most from each other in these particular ways: Diction/Word choice (e.g., plain and simple vs. fancy, big, "fifty cent" words). Average length of sentence (in words or characters). Average...

I'm reading Matt Ruff's horror novel Lovecraft Country (2016). The second chapter, entitled "Dreams of the Which House", is a story about a haunted house. I found the title plays on Lovecraft's original work, "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1932). I guess it's a kind of wordplay because 'which...

I'm studying reader-response theory and wonder what is the difference between horizon of expectation and a simple expectation. In my understanding, the horizon of expectation is just expectation. It just discusses more about cultural code and other texts from the reader's period/generation. Is th...

Angelo Bolco, also known as Ruzzante, was a 16th-century actor and playwright. He is little known today, but when the Italian playwright Dario Fo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1997, he put Ruzzante on the same level as Molière (quoted from Dario Fo's Nobel lecture on NobelPrize.org...