Literature – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:16:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Literature – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Alvar: Tamil Poets and the Female Voice Looking for the Divine in Ancient Hindu Love Songs https://brewminate.com/alvar-tamil-poets-and-the-female-voice-looking-for-the-divine-in-ancient-hindu-love-songs/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:16:34 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=226657 In the poems of the alvar, love, directed toward Vishnu, takes many forms: humble service; unconditional, protective maternal

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]]> ‘A Beast without a Heart’: Pietas and Pity in Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ https://brewminate.com/a-beast-without-a-heart-pietas-and-pity-in-shakespeares-julius-caesar/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:02:02 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=205169 Shakespeare depicts Brutus as torn between two opposed visions of heroism. Introduction In Julius Caesar, Brutus is a

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]]> The Invention of the Printing Press and the Birth of Public Opinion https://brewminate.com/the-invention-of-the-printing-press-and-the-birth-of-public-opinion/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:40:34 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267540 By lowering barriers to access and multiplying texts beyond institutional control, print redistributed intellectual power outward. By Matthew

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]]> American Narratives of Berlin in Twentieth-Century Literature https://brewminate.com/american-narratives-of-berlin-in-twentieth-century-literature/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:23:01 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=194381 Trends in the development of American literature set in the German capital from around 1900 to the present.

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]]> Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar Gave Dignity to the Black Experience in the 19th Century https://brewminate.com/poet-paul-laurence-dunbar-gave-dignity-to-the-black-experience-in-the-19th-century/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:02:13 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=203764 Dunbar became the first Black writer to earn international acclaim through his poetry, essays, and musical lyrics. Introduction

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]]> How Edgar Allan Poe became the Darling of the Maligned and Misunderstood https://brewminate.com/how-edgar-allan-poe-became-the-darling-of-the-maligned-and-misunderstood/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:29:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=198837 Is his appeal less about the power and complexity of his prose and more about the view of

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]]> ‘The Debate Between Sheep and Grain’ – Personification in Ancient Sumerian Literature https://brewminate.com/the-debate-between-sheep-and-grain-personification-in-ancient-sumerian-literature/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:12:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=192944 Literature inspired by the tension between Sumerian farmers and herdsmen who both required land. Introduction The Debate Between

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]]> Bought and Borrowed: ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the Corruption of the American Dream in the 1920s https://brewminate.com/bought-and-borrowed-the-great-gatsby-and-the-corruption-of-the-american-dream-in-the-1920s/ Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:19:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=265500 Viewed within its historical moment, The Great Gatsby reveals how the dream of equality and opportunity had already

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]]> The Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the Literary Response https://brewminate.com/the-battle-of-waterloo-in-1815-and-the-literary-response/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:26:50 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=194627 The history of the Battle of Waterloo, as well as the biographies of the two powerful adversaries who

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]]> The Ancient Mesopotamian Hymn to Ninkasi, Goddess of Beer https://brewminate.com/the-ancient-mesopotamian-hymn-to-ninkasi-goddess-of-beer/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:37:29 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=190945 The hymn was preserved orally because it had become a popular song and was finally committed to writing.

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