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World Literatures Feature Writer: Susan Whelan

Curious about history’s greatest novelists, like Leo Tolstoy? Interested in contemporary writers making headlines, such as Orhan Pamuk? Striving to understand fundamental texts, like the Koran or Plato’s Republic, from a literary perspective? Want the skinny on brilliant poets and authors yet to be discovered outside their country, such as Erendiz Atasu? Just looking for a good book?

This is the place.

World Literature is a dynamic subject that eliminates boundaries. Vast literary movements and modest stories; pop lit and themes of the human condition; authors rooted in a country and world citizens - they all belong here. This is the topic for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction from around the globe.

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Feature Writer Articles in World Literatures

 		Book Review – I Lost my Mobile at the Mall
Australian author Wendy Harmer introduces fun-loving 15-year-old Elly, who believes she is facing social death when her parents won't replace her lost mobile phone.
Book Review – Lenny and the Big Red Kinan
This simple story teaches children the Awabakal words for creatures and things they might find on a walk through the Australian bush.
Book Review – Mama's Song by Ben Beaton
Estranged from her parents, pregnant, confused and tired, Georgina wants to run away but discovers that there are some things you can't leave behind.
Book Review – The Many Conditions of Love
Farahad Zama once again takes readers to the Indian city of Vizag in this charming story about the complicated nature of love, romance and family responsibilities.
Book Review – Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne
Moving from the beaches of Sri Lanka in the 1960s to present-day London, Brixton Beach highlights the impact of civil war on individuals.
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Contributing Articles in World Literatures

 		Literary Technique - Onomatopoeia
Writers who want to describe a person, place, thing, or idea can use an onomatopoeia. Using sound for description and meaning helps readers enter the author's world.
Kafka's Manner of Reading and Interpretation
By examining how Franz Kafka approaches reading and his own view about the fictional process, one might get important clues about this author's work, themes, and ideas.
Form & Function in Of the Education of Children
Michel de Montaigne wrote many essays on a variety of topics. One essay that is particularly interesting in its complexity is "Of the education of children."
Review – The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
Gossipy, humourous, and ultimately moving, Sei Shonagon's memoirs constitute a remarkable portrait of daily life in the Empress's court during the Heian period in Japan.
Introduction to the Work of Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was an influential novelist, whose work spanned the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.
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