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The two scenes repeating Pip’s childhood trauma in Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” (1861)

In my Academic Writing classes this morning, we looked at two passages from Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (1861) in which the narrator Pip's traumatic childhood scene is repeated, first in the return of the convict Magwitch and then in the return of a second convict, Compeyson. In both sessions, we

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The “literal interpretation” of “New Kid in Town”, by The Eagles

Yesterday, I played my students the beginning of "New Kid in Town" (The Eagles, "Hotel California", 1976, by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and JD Souther): "There's talk on the street, it sounds so familiar / Great expectations, everybody's watching you." They laughed at my joke: a week ago, we began discussing

Manvir Singh's figure of “the triumphant orphan”: Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre, but surely not Pip

In an article on whether a "key to all mythologies" could be created, Manvir Singh mentions the figure of the "triumphant orphan" and lists examples from Cinderella and Jane Eyre to Harry Potter and Igbo stories from Nigeria. Before I began reading the list, I thought of "Oliver Twist" (1839)