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Point of View, Subjectivity, and Otherness in A Song of Ice and Fire

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: March 5, 2011
(Note that at the time of writing this post, only four books have been released in what is expected to be a seven-book series. Also note that there are some spoilers towards the end of this post, which I’ve indicated with a rather prominent warning.) One of the unique things about George R.R. Martin’s A [...]
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Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Real-Life Trial by Combat

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: January 19, 2010
I’m studying Ivanhoe right now, and I came across some interesting articles about the book and its connection to a real-life trial by combat… in 1817. So I thought I would blog about the details, because though I think it is really interesting it will probably never make it into my paper. Anyways: The Ashford [...]
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Writing habits pt. 1: Anthony Trollope

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: December 5, 2009
I started a post comparing the writing habits of Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway, but I found that for each writer the most interesting theme about their writing was unique to them. Trollope is a machine. Dickens is concerned primarily with his medium. Hemingway is–well, he’s Hemingway. So I split it into three [...]
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Unpublished, hard-to-find short stories by J.D. Salinger

By Mike Lesiuk | Published: November 6, 2009
Back in high school, one of my English teachers gave us “Teddy” by J.D. Salinger to read and then talk about in class, and at the end of the term he put Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” on the final exam. (And on a high school English lit final that’s just cruel, considering how [...]
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