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Sigmund Freud, Renowned Psychologist or Literary Giant?

Sigmund Freud is primarily recognized as an influential psychologist who developed the theory of psychoanalysis and famously authored The Interpretation of Dreams. Then why have I received lectures on the Id,…

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Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre: Independent Women

Charlotte Brontë was no stranger to death. Her mother died when she was only five years old. When Brontë was nine years old both her older sisters died, and the…

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Henry James, Meditations on the Novel

by Katie Davis Henry James was not a one-hit-wonder novelist. Throughout his lifetime he wrote more than 22 novels, in addition to over 100 short stories, and many essays and…

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Eudora Welty Legend of the South

I’ve been struggling with a scene in my novel. It’s a pivotal scene and needs memorable description. I didn’t know where to turn for inspiration until I found an old…

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Nikolai Gogol, Father of Russian Realism

Anyone who yearns for literature with dark and satisfying twists reads the Russian greats. Russian writers are known to take their history of long suffering and somehow morph all this…

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Goya and Van Gogh, Masterpieces out of Madness

by Katie Davis Francisco Goya and Vincent Van Gogh had a lot in common; not only were they two of the greatest artistic innovators of 18th and 19th centuries, but…

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Sigmund Freud, Renowned Psychologist or Literary Giant?

Charlotte Brontë and Jane Eyre: Independent Women

Henry James, Meditations on the Novel

Eudora Welty Legend of the South

Nikolai Gogol, Father of Russian Realism

Goya and Van Gogh, Masterpieces out of Madness

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