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A woman standing in a full thrift shop.
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“A Ripple Effect that Turned into a Tidal Wave”: The Journey of a Discarded Book

ByNancy McCabe

One day eighteen years ago, a senior colleague at the small South Carolina college where I taught found more than $300,000 worth of stripped Penguin paperbacks at a local thrift shop. Other than the piece of each cover that had been sliced off, the books were in excellent condition, but the prison to which they…

The Physical Body in the Psychological Novel: On Knut Hamsun’s ‘Hunger’
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The Physical Body in the Psychological Novel: On Knut Hamsun’s ‘Hunger’

ByLara Palmquist

Norwegian author Knut Hamsun’s Hunger (1890) is widely regarded as one of the pioneering works of Modernist fiction. Telling a semi-autobiographical story of a starving writer’s decent into madness, the novel is celebrated for its deft explorations of the mind. Notably, Hamsun’s innovative use of internal monologue and stream-of-consciousness directly influenced major writers such as…