Works that employ meta-fiction to break down the boundaries between the real and the fantastical teach us how to think outside the box.
Tag Archives: Wonderworks
How Quixote Hones Problem-Solving Skills
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Lit’s Invention of “The Second Look”
One of the literary “inventions” featured in Fletcher’s “Wonderworks” is the second look, partly invented by Akutagawa in “Rashomon.”
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Horror Fiction, Anecdote to Fear
Full immersion in fear can lead to bad health outcomes. Shelley’s meta-narrative horror work “Frankenstein” allows us to turn psychic distress into something positive.
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Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally
Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.
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George Eliot’s Humanism
George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” was instrumental in developing a new humanism.
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Hamlet Taught Us a New Way to Grieve
In “Hamlet,” Shakespeare taught the world a powerful new way to grieve.
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My Brilliant Friend, Cure for Loneliness?
The child perspective in Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend” creates a special bond with the reader.
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Stream of Consciousness’ Healing Powers
In “Wonderworks” Fletcher explains the therapeutic effects of stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf’s especially.
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