Several people have asked me what I mean when I ask for more VOICE in your essay. This is a great question, and it gets to the heart of what analysis looks like in a research paper. The goal of a ...

We’re told in the translator Jo Catling’s introduction that Sebald didn’t view these essays as “literature as an academic discipline”, but that is exactly what they are. (If you don’t ...

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