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		<title>The Passion According to G.H.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The literature of horror is mostly a mish-mash of monsters, murderers<br />and maniacs. The terror is external, lurking behind a dark corner, in a<br />cemetery, or inside a gloomy castle. The essence of this terror is the<br />encounter with the &#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>The Many Lives of James Joyce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Where do we go to discover the real James Joyce?<br /></strong><br />The first published life of James Joyce came from the pen of the<br />author himself, and if readers had any doubts that his debut novel<br />was autobiographical, the title itself &#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>The Finnegans Wake Toolkit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by Ted Gioia</p>



<p>Here are your survival tools for Finnegans Wake.  For your benefit,I&#8217;ve prioritized these, with the essential items at the top, and the optionalitems lower down on the list.  Students of this work also need to knowabout several &#8230;</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by Ted Gioia</p>



<p>Here are your survival tools for Finnegans Wake.  For your benefit,I&#8217;ve prioritized these, with the essential items at the top, and the optionalitems lower down on the list.  Students of this work also need to knowabout several &hellip;</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Javier Marías&#8217;s Epic 1300-Page Novel of Existential Espionage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Essay by Ted Gioia<br /></strong><br />Let me cut to the chase—something Javier Marías rarely does during the course of this 1300-page<br />novel in three volumes. Here’s the bottom line: This is one of the best novels I’ve read in the last&#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>The Literary Gossip Novel (Part 1):Evelyn Waugh&#8217;s Vile Bodies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Truman Capote, in his last literary project, decided to stitch together<br />a novel out of bits of gossip.  He never completed the work, which<br />he called <em>Answered Prayers</em>, although some chapters were<br />published in <em>Esquire</em> and later collected into &#8230;</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Truman Capote, in his last literary project, decided to stitch together<br />a novel out of bits of gossip.  He never completed the work, which<br />he called <em>Answered Prayers</em>, although some chapters were<br />published in <em>Esquire</em> and later collected into &hellip;</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>The Making of Ulysses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>James Joyce’s father once commented on his son: &#8220;If that fellow<br />was dropped in the middle of the Sahara, he&#8217;d sit, be God, and<br />make a map of it.&#8221;</p>



<p>In this rumination on the Joycean mindset,<br />John Joyce wasn&#8217;t talking &#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>The First Postmodern Novel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Despite what you may have read elsewhere, most of the<br />experimental techniques of modernist and postmodernist<br />fiction were developed long before the 20th century.  We<br />encounter arch meta-narratives in Cervantes and a self-<br />consciously absurdist fragmentation of texts in Rabelais.  &#8230;</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite what you may have read elsewhere, most of the<br />experimental techniques of modernist and postmodernist<br />fiction were developed long before the 20th century.  We<br />encounter arch meta-narratives in Cervantes and a self-<br />consciously absurdist fragmentation of texts in Rabelais.  &hellip;</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Leo Tolstoy and the End of History</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>It perhaps seems absurd, but the best way of grasping the significance of&#160;<em>War and Peace</em>&#160;might<br />be by considering all the things that Tolstoy left out. The absurdity here stems from the obvious<br />fact that this massive novel is &#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>The Forgotten Tolstoy Novel:A Reappraisal of Resurrection (1899)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Leo Tolstoy wrote three supersized novels. Two of them rank among the best known classics of<br />world literature, the third one is rarely read and mostly forgotten. Yet when <em>Resurrection</em> was<br />published in 1899, it created a sensation and outsold &#8230;</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leo Tolstoy wrote three supersized novels. Two of them rank among the best known classics of<br />world literature, the third one is rarely read and mostly forgotten. Yet when <em>Resurrection</em> was<br />published in 1899, it created a sensation and outsold &hellip;</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Leo Tolstoy and the Marriage Plot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Essay by Ted Gioia<br /></strong><br />Leo Tolstoy “read a lot of English family novels,” his son Sergey later recalled, “and sometimes<br />joked about them.” The great Russian writer claimed that “these novels always end up with him<br />putting his arm&#160;<em>round </em>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
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