Reading Between the Lines

Reading Between the Lines

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The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue

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The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue

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Reading Between the Lines

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  1. 1 The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Brendan Pelsue
  2. 2 Why should you read Charles Dickens? - Iseult Gillespie
  3. 3 The myth of Prometheus - Iseult Gillespie
  4. 4 Why should you read "Macbeth"? - Brendan Pelsue
  5. 5 Why should you read James Joyce's "Ulysses"? - Sam Slote
  6. 6 Why should you read Virgil's "Aeneid"? - Mark Robinson
  7. 7 Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie
  8. 8 The myth of Cupid and Psyche - Brendan Pelsue
  9. 9 Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue
  10. 10 How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic
  11. 11 The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins
  12. 12 Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message? - David B. Parker
  13. 13 Everything you need to know to read "Frankenstein" - Iseult Gillespie
  14. 14 Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey" - Jill Dash
  15. 15 How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler
  16. 16 What makes something "Kafkaesque"? - Noah Tavlin
  17. 17 The evolution of the book - Julie Dreyfuss
  18. 18 The poet who painted with his words - Geneviève Emy
  19. 19 The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia - Addison Anderson
  20. 20 How science fiction can help predict the future - Roey Tzezana
  21. 21 The science behind the myth: Homer's "Odyssey" - Matt Kaplan
  22. 22 What "Orwellian" really means - Noah Tavlin
  23. 23 A poetic experiment: Walt Whitman, interpreted by three animators - Justin Moore
  24. 24 Why tragedies are alluring - David E. Rivas
  25. 25 What's the definition of comedy? Banana. - Addison Anderson
  26. 26 Mining literature for deeper meanings - Amy E. Harter
  27. 27 A host of heroes - April Gudenrath
  28. 28 What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler
  29. 29 An anti-hero of one's own - Tim Adams
  30. 30 The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield
  31. 31 How fiction can change reality - Jessica Wise
  32. 32 Insults by Shakespeare
  33. 33 On reading the Koran - Lesley Hazleton
  34. 34 The myth of Oisín and the land of eternal youth - Iseult Gillespie
  35. 35 Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? - Francisco Díez-Buzo
  36. 36 Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe? - Scott Peeples
  37. 37 Everything you need to know to read “The Canterbury Tales” - Iseult Gillespie
  38. 38 Why should you read "Don Quixote"? - Ilan Stavans
  39. 39 Why should you read "Waiting For Godot"? - Iseult Gillespie
  40. 40 Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”? - Iseult Gillespie
  41. 41 Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey
  42. 42 What “Machiavellian” really means - Pazit Cahlon and Alex Gendler
  43. 43 Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft - Silvia Moreno-García
  44. 44 Why should you read “Crime and Punishment”? - Alex Gendler
  45. 45 Why should you read "Hamlet"? - Iseult Gillespie
  46. 46 Infinity according to Jorge Luis Borges - Ilan Stavans
  47. 47 Romance and revolution: The poetry of Pablo Neruda - Ilan Stavans
  48. 48 Why should you read “Kafka on the Shore”? - Iseult Gillespie
  49. 49 Why should you read “Midnight’s Children”? - Iseult Gillespie
  50. 50 Why should you read “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy? - Laura Wright
  51. 51 Why should you read Dante’s “Divine Comedy”? - Sheila Marie Orfano
  52. 52 Why should you read “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding? - Jill Dash
  53. 53 Why should you read “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan? - Sheila Marie Orfano
  54. 54 Why should you read “Dune” by Frank Herbert? - Dan Kwartler
  55. 55 Why should you read Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”? - Yen Pham
  56. 56 The epic of Gilgamesh, the king who tried to conquer death - Soraya Field Fiorio

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