literature

Though grossly oversimplified, the primary difference between literary fiction and genre fiction is the purpose of the story being told: genre fiction focuses on the entertainment value of the plot and literary fiction focuses on the beauty and significance in the style of writing itself…

Most psychics, clairvoyants, mystics, etc. in literature are female. Did you ever notice that?

Lindsay writes: “Clumps of rubbery ferns motionless in the pale light cast no shadows upon the carpet of dry grey moss.”1 This light, coming from the sun, must be in the sky shining down. It is inexplicable, then, that – no matter how pale the light – the ferns do not have a shadow. It is as if the source of light is coming from everywhere, all at once…

In Helen Hunt Jackson’s novel Ramona, the titular character is raised on a Spanish ranch with a half-Scotch, half-Native bloodline. Accordingly, Ramona struggles to figure out where she belongs…

In Othello, objects are independent in the way that they are able to influence the human characters without the human characters influencing them…