This essay is excerpted from “An Unreasonably Deep Analysis of Goodnight Moon: On Finding (or Creating) Meaning in Dreams” by Eponynonymous. My daughter used to fight sleep like grim death. Every night as she was dozing off, she would suddenly recoil, bouncing back from that hypnagogic state with flailing arms and banshee screams. It was as if she saw what lay on the other side of sleep and what she saw was death. Oblivion. I don’t think the analogy is too dramatic. To a baby, bedtime r...| Literary Ladies Guide
The effects of nature on well-being through the symbolism and imagery of nature in Heidi (Spyri) and The Secret Garden (Burnett).| Literary Ladies Guide
Flora Nwapa, the Nigerian-born author, poet, short story writer, and activist was known as the “Mother of African Literature.”| Literary Ladies Guide
The Technique of the Love Affair (1928) sums up the attitude to men, sex and relationships of the modern woman of the late 1920s perfectly.| Literary Ladies Guide
Mary Wollstonecraft's 1796 travel narrative: Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.| Literary Ladies Guide