
Mervin Ridley
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College English and Literature professor. Author of four volumes of poetry. Award-winning writer and veteran educator.
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Answered a Question in Edgar Allan Poe
Hawthorne's tales, whether we are looking at Young Goodman Brown (a short story) or The Scarlet Letter (a novel), almost always contain a moral, and they correspond with the Puritanical leanings of... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
Just as Said throws the Orient and the Occident into stark contrast with one another, so is Frankenstein's creature thrown into stark contrast with the world around him. The similarity is one of... -
Answered a Question in T. S. Eliot
Put simply, only by "pushing the envelope" can you find out what you are capable of. Eliot here is saying that only when humans test their potential by "going too far" can they discover their... -
Answered a Question in Teaching Community
Not to be redundant, but I too enjoy TKAM, along with Hamlet, The Crucible, and almost anything by Edgar Allan Poe. I prefer American Lit primarily, although there's so many great pieces fromWorld... -
Answered a Question in Teaching Community
The read-aloud idea was especially good, and I have developed a slight modification to it: Using an audio recording of the literature in question, pause at critical moments in the story, poem,...
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