Tag Archives: Wonderworks

How Quixote Hones Problem-Solving Skills

Works that employ meta-fiction to break down the boundaries between the real and the fantastical teach us how to think outside the box.

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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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Beowulf’s Lessons in How to Grieve

Hamlet, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight each show us powerful ways to grieve.

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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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