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The author of the popular Lemony Snicket books discusses his love of strange literature and reflects on his life experiences in an entertaining memoir that also serves as inspiration for aspiring writers.
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Metanarration and the Reassessment of Narrative Information in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Notwithstanding that scholarly discussions generally commend the deployment of metafictive techniques in children's literature, metafiction's subversive edge is blunted in those children's books that depict the solace offered by books as the panacea for all the conflicts within a given narrative. That said, as Joe Sutliff Sanders contends, it is possible for a children's book to highlight the salvific power of books while encouraging close reading. In A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999–2006), written by Daniel Handler using the pseudonym Lemony Snicket, the defamiliarized relationship between metanarrative signifiers and their referents induces readers to adopt a critical approach toward Snicket's story. Drawing on Gerald Prince's theory of metanarrative signs, the present study explores the ways in which Handler's exploitation of metanarrative space destabilizes the narrative methods incorporated in his own story, thereby propelling readers to consider forming a more interrogative relationship with books and fictional narratives.
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Becoming/Unbecoming Jewish: A Letter from James Salter
No formal activities involved, just a sense of now belonging to this religion/ethnicity/culture/tribe from which people do not just walk away and end their association, proving, I suppose, that you can easily become Jewish even if you can't easily unbecome it. [...]there is the temperamental piece: I'm not keen on group activities, whether it's team sports, singalongs, or school spirit. Back in the day, if you were a regular reviewer, it was not uncommon to call a book editor you knew, as 1 knew the Inquirer's Carlin Romano, and ask to review a particular book. Once the likes of Michael Ondaatje and Joseph Heller were on board to blurb the 1997 memoir, Burning the Days-published when Salter was 72 years old-my endorsements were no longer necessary. The issue took on weight and mystery when I read this paragraph in Adam Begley's 1990 profile of Salter in the New York Times Magazine; Born James Horowitz, he retired from the Air Force as Maj. James Horowitz.
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The Ghost Story in Spenser's Daphnaida
This study of Spenser's Daphnaida responds to David Lee Miller's contentions that (1) this elegy is a purposely bad poem; (2) that Daphnaida is more suitable to historical consideration than formal analysis; and (3) that the reader is meant to see Alcyon, the mourner in the poem, as primarily a figure for mockery. This essay complicates the work of mourning in the poem by considering its subtle tonal shifts and changes of register throughout Alcyon's lament and offers a formal reading of the poem that considers the effect of the poet-narrator's introduction on our subsequent evaluation of Alcyon and the poem as a whole.
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Children’s Gothic in the Chinese Context: The Untranslatability and Cross-Cultural Readability of a Literary Genre
As an emerging literary subgenre in the twenty-first century, Children's Gothic challenges and blends the norms of both children's literature and Gothic literature, featuring child characters' self-empowerment in the face of fears and dark impulses. The foreignness and strangeness that pertain to the genre haunt the border of its translatability. Daniel Handler's A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006), written under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket, poses a chain of translational challenges due to its linguistic creativity, paratextual art, and mixed style of horror and dark humor intended for a child readership. To investigate the interplay between Children's Gothic and its (un)translatability within the context of cross-cultural communication, this study compares the Gothic manifestations in the original English-language series and its Chinese translations. A comparative analysis shows that the Gothic elements are diluted in the Chinese version's translation, re-illustration, and repackaging of the original, reflecting a tendency towards moral didacticism and localization. Taking together the educational emphases of Chinese children's literature with Francois Jullien's aesthetics of blandness, this paper argues for the commensurability of the diluted translation with the Chinese cultural-educational system, as well as draws poetic implications from the translation of a literary genre that is simultaneously pedagogical and transgressive.
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The Envelope, Please
The portal Editorial Board announced the first award for best article of the year in 2005.8 The Process of Choosing the Best Article The process of choosing the best article begins each year in November, after release of the final issue of the volume under consideration. portal's editor appoints a Best Article Award Committee comprised of members of the portal Editorial Board who have not published an article in that volume. Do the author or authors present their findings in a clear way? Because they do not go through the peer-review process, pieces labeled \"features\" and \"editorials\" are excluded from consideration, though they serve an important purpose for the journal. Recent winning articles have discussed the thought of Luciano Floridi, an Italian professor of philosophy and ethics of information at the University of Oxford. critical information literacy, an educational approach that encourages a questioning attitude toward information and recognizes the powerful commercial forces behind much of it. the post-truth phenomenon in American politics and the challenge it poses to teaching authority in information literacy. ethical issues surrounding learning analytics, the gathering and analysis of data about students to assess their academic progress and improve learning outcomes, which may compromise students' privacy. Libraries and the Academy Johns Hopkins University Press Award for Best Article is identified, the author or authors are invited to accept the award and discuss their research at the summer meeting of the portal Editorial Board.
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Our Author Is Crazy
This thesis delves into the realm of young adult (YA) fantasy literature, exploring how its meta-narrative elements, fast-paced story beats, and relatable characters can facilitate the acquisition of healthy coping mechanisms among its readers. In the preface, I discuss the importance of providing YA audiences with narratives that not only entertain but also serve as tools for navigating the complexities of adolescence. Drawing upon psychological theories and literary analysis, I argue that meta-awareness in YA fantasy can offer readers a unique perspective on their own struggles and encourage them to develop resilience and coping skills. The accompanying YA Fantasy story follows Raz, a character aware of his fictional existence, the Author's existence, and the reader's existence. After being created in the opening chapter, he is thrust into OC World, where he meets his new housemates. A group of highly intense OCs with their own problems and quirks that Raz can't wrap his head around. However, that's the least of his concerns, as the Author has a bet with him that they didn't bother to tell Raz about. Now Raz has to figure out the nature of the bet, survive this new crazy world and his housemates, all while hoping his own mental mindscape holds up. By intertwining the theoretical framework presented in the preface with the narrative exploration of the YA fantasy story, this thesis aims to demonstrate the potential of literature to serve as a catalyst for personal growth and resilience in young readers as well as tell an engaging and fun story.
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Graveyard Girl
Graveyard Girl follows thirteen year old Addison’s dark, yet wonderfully weird coming-of-age journey as she learns how to process her grief over losing her older brother Austin to suicide. One night, while wandering through the cemetery near her house, she discovers a strange leather-bound book sitting on top of Austin’s grave. The book appears to be some sort of manual for raising the dead—which Addison becomes unhealthily obsessed with. Addison is desperate to find out anything and everything about Austin’s death—all while navigating the throes of middle school drama, difficult family situations, and getting her first period. She may find out things about her brother that she never wanted to know, however, and come to realize that she never really knew him in the first place.
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