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Who coined the phrase, "the Stoic Mistake"?
Awarded Jul 16 at 14:21
Account of picking up a black hitchhiker who then wanted to be let out
Awarded Jul 12 at 14:11
Why is the character's speech reported indirectly? What does the indirect report express?
Awarded Jul 8 at 13:28
Is A Supplement to the Journey to the West from the 17th century the oldest Chinese work of literature involving time travel?
Awarded Jul 5 at 14:36
Is there any deeper reason as to why Joyce chose the Latin name for Odysseus when he titled Ulysses?
Awarded Jul 1 at 20:01
What kind of censorship was Dostoevsky avoiding by obscuring place names?
Awarded Jun 30 at 18:13
YA book involving disappearing subatomic particles?
Awarded Jun 30 at 11:25
Does Aldonza Lorenzo appear as a real character in Don Quixote?
Awarded Jun 28 at 19:47
Story with opening line about finding God behind the moon
Awarded Jun 27 at 8:40
Meaning of "Of which the first ne'er knows the second cause" in Byron's Don Juan
Awarded Jun 26 at 18:04
Why did the Superintendent compare Smiley to an abbey?
Awarded Jun 23 at 12:25
What was the intended audience of "Absent, Or Not Absent" by Tsering Woeser?
Awarded Jun 21 at 7:47
Emily Jane Pfeiffer’s “To the Blind Architect of the City of Life”
Awarded Jun 19 at 15:25
Is the hook of Marethyu meant to evoke a scythe?
Awarded Jun 15 at 12:37
Looking for an Aliens novel (not graphic) in which Newt and Hicks (an android) are dating
Awarded Jun 15 at 10:56
Which version of William Blake's "Jerusalem" did John Reith recite to celebrate the end of the General Strike?
Awarded Jun 13 at 8:27
Why didn't Harry and Hermione Granger get married?
Awarded Jun 10 at 7:03
Has any writer claimed that Hector, not Achilles, is the true hero of the Iliad?
Awarded Jun 7 at 18:22
Why are songs no longer performed as part of Shakespeare's plays?
Awarded Jun 2 at 11:19
Is there specific mythological significance to the Dingli Cliffs?
Awarded May 30 at 4:41
When was young Cosette's bedtime?
Awarded May 28 at 15:08
Terminology for the category including all of dialogues, monologues, asides and soliloquies
Awarded May 25 at 13:33
What do these lines mean in the opening paragraph of Peel My Love Like an Onion?
Awarded May 22 at 4:47
British 1990s/2000s crime novel featuring twin gangsters
Awarded May 19 at 22:17
Why the Alice epigraph in the epilogue of Watership Down?
Awarded May 17 at 13:01
Why did Smerdyakov kill himself in the Brothers Karamazov?
Awarded May 14 at 9:27
What do the silks and tattoos represent in Sui-Yun's poem about Eve?
Awarded May 12 at 16:40
Why was Pygmalion retitled to My Fair Lady?
Awarded May 6 at 0:32
20th century poem ending with "-baby?"
Awarded Apr 30 at 7:55
What is the term for a novel that has no chapters or paragraphs?
Awarded Apr 27 at 10:32
identify a Douglas Adams-ish short story about a failed attempt to communicate with aliens that ends with an anticlimactic sentence
Awarded Apr 27 at 0:26
Symbolism of the name Red Rose in Chapter 8 of The Scarlet Letter
Awarded Apr 23 at 1:50
Why is Gatsby's house described as "ancestral"?
Awarded Apr 22 at 21:57
What form of Formality does Kikuji originally use when talking about Chikako Kurimoto in chapter two?
Awarded Apr 22 at 17:55
Is John Crowe Ransom's 'Vision by Sweetwater' autobiographical?
Awarded Apr 22 at 5:16
Who or what is 'our God' in Swinburne's 'Ave atque Vale'?
Awarded Apr 22 at 5:16
Literary term for the stagehands on "The Masked Singer"
Awarded Apr 8 at 4:42
Is the castle where Mr. Toad is imprisoned a real place, or based on a real place?
Awarded Mar 30 at 16:17
A YA book about surviving outdoors
Awarded Mar 29 at 3:40
Short story: an executioner, uncaring to convicts, discovers a watch that he gifted to his son
Awarded Mar 20 at 12:46
How significant is Schopenhauer's philosophy in Buddenbrooks?
Awarded Mar 20 at 11:07
Who does this Urdu proverb originate from?
Awarded Mar 20 at 1:46
What does its future setting add to Cold Comfort Farm?
Awarded Mar 18 at 20:32
Who is the constellation which burns in their midst?
Awarded Mar 18 at 3:51
Why is "The Crying of Lot 49" considered metafiction?
Awarded Mar 17 at 5:47
In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, why are there repeated references to halters jingling in chapter 4?
Awarded Mar 15 at 14:51
What is the effect of using “silver” to describe the “horn” in "Madman's Song" by Elinor Wylie?
Awarded Mar 9 at 21:47
What is the children's book about a troll looking for a rope to hang his brother?
Awarded Mar 7 at 7:57
Why was a time of war described as "good"?
Awarded Feb 26 at 15:56
Primers in "Blood Meridian" — an unmentioned/overlooked detail?
Awarded Feb 24 at 20:33
Why did Khaled Hosseini mention this quote in "A Thousand Splendid Suns"?
Awarded Feb 21 at 14:43
Did Mr Lamb really die?
Awarded Feb 20 at 17:36
Why did Mr Jaggers have death masks of two of his former clients, Great Expectations Chapter 24?
Awarded Feb 16 at 11:11
Difference between "conte" and "nouvelle" at the time of La Fontaine
Awarded Jan 31 at 10:27
Why is the last title in Proust's "Search For Lost Time" not consistently translated as "Time Found Again"?
Awarded Jan 27 at 5:02
Did 'A Doll's House' spark controversy over its dismissal of social classes?
Awarded Jan 23 at 12:05
What was the location of Hill House in The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson?
Awarded Jan 22 at 15:31
What parallels can be drawn between Hunger Games characters and their classical namesakes?
Awarded Jan 22 at 3:03
Source of the Japanese story Joseph Campbell tells of a samurai spat upon in The Power of Myth
Awarded Jan 21 at 2:32
80's techno thriller where Soviets have a control room calculating the odds of 'winning' a nuclear war, and automatically launch above a threshold?
Awarded Jan 15 at 20:25
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