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Reading literary fiction through structure and craft

What is plot development?

What is Plot Development?

Plot-driven vs. character-driven story

Plot-Driven vs. Character-Driven Stories

The art of rereading

The Art of Rereading: On Returning to Familiar Works with a Different Perspective

Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

On philosophical fiction

Can Fiction Be Philosophical Without Being Too Abstract? The Novel as a Vessel for Thought in Narrative Form

Performative reading in social media age

Performative Reading in the Age of Social Media: How the Public Display of Reading Has Undermined the Transformative Power of Books

Defamiliarization in literature

Defamiliarization

Sonnet 116 vs 138 by William Shakespeare

What Love Claims to Be, and What It Learns to Become: Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ vs. ‘Sonnet 138’

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