College of Arts and Sciences

"Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher and literary scholar  . . . pointed out the many voices in novels by authors such as Dickens and Dostoevsky. As I read Bakhtin with a 1968 book in mind, the many voices of a Dickens novel began to represent for me a kind...

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  "A successful writing day is usually one in which I make a discovery about the story I’m working on, in which I write something that surprises me, something I didn’t expect to write when I sat down at the computer that morning."   1.  Are you the kind of writer who...

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