billdelaney
billdelaney
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September 4, 2011
University of California-Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA, US (1960 - 1963)
Shakespeare, Hemingway, Poe, English literature, American literature, French literature, especially short stories
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Freelance writer, editor, independent scholar. I have written several hundred essays, articles, and reviews for Magill's/Salem Press which are accessible online via eNotes. I have also published eighteen peer-reviewed literary articles in The Explicator.
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Answered a Question in To Build a Fire
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Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
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Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
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Answered a Question in Hills Like White Elephants
The best thing about the short film adaptation of Hemingway's "Hills Like White...
Answered a Question in The Black Cat
"The Black Cat" seems to have a more contemporary flavor, while "The Cask of...
Answered a Question in Science
The advantages of space exploration are mainly long-term advantages. No doubt...
Answered a Question in A & P
Anyone who shops in supermarkets (which includes practically everyone) must often...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
Fortunato does not necessarily believe that Luchesi is an "ignoramus." In fact, he...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
Poe uses many things for double purposes. When Montresor tells his servants he...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
Poe deliberately shows in many ways that Montresor is French and not Italian,...
Answered a Question in As You Like It
Yes, many of the characters are changed by the experience of pastoral life in...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
Many readers assume that Montresor is not stating the truth when he accuses...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
Fortunato keeps repeating the word "Amontillado" at the beginning of the story...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
A court jester may have been considered a fool, a man with an abnormally low IQ,...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
Montresor does not necessarily feel he has a right to take justice into his own...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
Poe's story is somewhat like Dante's Inferno. The setting is of the utmost...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
Montresor is not confessing but writing a description of an event in his life of...
Answered a Question in Religion
Richard Dawkins says in one of his books that the fact that religion may inculcate...
Answered a Question in The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Your question seems to be referring to another poem by Yeats, "The Stolen Child,"...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
"Ignoramus" is a Latin word meaning an ignorant person. Fortunato probably does...
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
When the narrator says that he encountered Fortunato during the "supreme madness"...
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