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UConn's Literary & Arts Magazine

Month: February 2013

Exploitation of Femininity in “The Hunger Games”

LRR, February 24, 2013June 16, 2017

Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is classified as a young adult book.  There are several characteristics that define a book as young adult literature, but the strongest characteristic is the main character’s ascension to adulthood as he or she grapples with issues of power.  While Katniss initially appears to be…

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Is Poetry Dead?

LRR, February 13, 2013June 16, 2017

In 2003, Newsweek released an article titled “Poetry Is Dead.  Does Anybody Really Care?”  The article, as you might guess, asserts the position of poetry as an irrelevant artform in today’s day and age.  The author claims that poetry simply cannot survive in our culture of notoriously short attention spans…

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Literature in Unlikely Places. Every Word Matters.

LRR, February 13, 2013June 16, 2017

When thinking about the word Literature we often only think of books. What we forget is that Literature is the art of written work. Written work can be anywhere, not just in books and although contradictory to its definition, it does not even have to be written.  Written work can…

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Literature and…video games!?

LRR, February 9, 2013June 17, 2017

Seems like a bizarre sort of juxtaposition, right? Especially with all of the media attention surrounding video games lately. But, as a twenty-one year old English student who has been an avid fan of video games since I could first hold a gameboy, I find this form of entertainment to be just…

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The Writer and Rejection

LRR, February 8, 2013June 16, 2017

Hey, LRR readers/writers!   Those of you that submitted to the Long River Review this year may be wondering what’s going on with submissions. Well, the deadline has come and gone, so the panels are working on making their selections.   To those of you that will end up getting…

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