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  • Humour In Children’s Stories

    Founding editor of The Onion wants to help with the job of learning the write comedy. Stephen Johnson argues that every joke falls into one of 11 categories. At first glance this sounds like the ‘Seven Basic Plots’ idea, which is a pretty unhelpful way of looking at story if you’re harbouring hopes of telling […]

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  • A Lonely Coast by Annie Proulx Short Story Analysis

    A Lonely Coast by Annie Proulx Short Story Analysis

    The first thing that feels different about “A Lonely Coast” in the Close Range collection by Annie Proulx is the voice. This short story begins in second person point of view, then switches to first in the second paragraph. The previous stories of this collection were all written by a third-person unseen narrator with an […]

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  • Proulx’s Bunchgrass Edge Of The World Short Story Analysis

    This modern retelling of The Frog Prince by Annie Proulx was published in the November edition of The New Yorker in 1998 and included in her Close Range collection of short stories. Many of [Proulx’s] stories are explicitly anchored in the history of the United States, and abound with references to background historical events and to real […]

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