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Finding literary critiques

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I have been finding it very difficult to come up with topics/ theses for my essay assignments and I think reading the works of more experienced scholars may be useful. However, I haven't been able to find a site that hosts good quality literary critiques. All I've found are sites with thousands of essays of varied (and mostly poor) quality and sites with reviews of literature as opposed to works which make an argument about a specific part of a novel/ poem/ film (which is what I'm looking for).

To be clear I'm looking for a website which hosts articles/ essays on topics like (from the top of my head) intertexuality in [some famous novel], use of color to convey [something] in Akira, or an comparison of tones in Yehuda Amichai's "Jerusalem" and Mahmoud Darwish's "Identity Card". My ideal (though almost certain such a site doesn't exist) would be a website that gives its audience a reading assignment each week and then provides several different good quality essays about different aspects of that work before moving on to the next one the week after. I'm looking to see how professional writers respond to classic works. I'm not looking to use the site to plagiarize anyone else's work.

Does such a website exist? Where do professional critics publish their works?

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While it might not be "professional," there are about eleventy gazillion words of meta-analysis (shortened to just meta) of the BBC's Sherlock, easily accessible on Tumblr by looking for the appropriate tags. T

You can read posts of 100 to 10,000 words by people who are analyzing the use of color in various episodes (green, rainbows, blue/purple, light/dark cinematography), the "drinks code," M-theory, the femme fatale trope, how set designer Arwel Wyn-Jones uses mockingbird designs on background wallpaper to indicate villains, character mirrors, and so on.

I have probably learned as much about cinematic and textual analysis from reading two years of meta as I did in two years of literary criticism courses in college.

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