A Canticle for Leibowitz Analysis

Discussing the setting of A Canticle for Leibowitz requires you to consider the traditional setting duo of time and place. Or perhaps we should have said times and place. Each part of the novel tak...

In A Canticle for Leibowitz, the narrator has the ability to enter any character's perspective it chooses—and it does just that. One of the best examples of the narrator's third-person omniscient...

To Boldly Go…where every man has gone before. Yeah, this is not Star Trek. The novel has no phasers set to stun and no alien races in need of rescue and/or seduction. There's barely even a spaces...

Which, of course, translates to "realism by the fact that it is ironic to be realistic and all, and a bag of chips." We think. Our Latin is pretty rusty. And wasn't particularly good to begin with....

A Canticle for Leibowitz is neither a full-on science fiction story nor an entirely literary novel. It's both, existing in that extra-dimensional space between genre conventions. And so it makes se...

It's kind of a tricky title, we know. Well, a and for are pretty straightforward, and once you start reading the story, you figure out what a Leibowitz is pretty fast. But canticle requires some di...

Okay, we know why you're here. There you were, just reading away, and then: bam. Shark. You've just got to know what's up with that carnivorous fish, right? We've got plenty of ideas about that, bu...

This one's a toughie. We were thinking, "Maybe it deserves a four. Or perhaps a six. It really depends on you, dear reader."Miller's writing has some complex sentences that run a little long, and t...

A Canticle for Leibowitz is one big novel, but also three distinct stories. Cool, huh? This means that we could analyze the plot structure of the novel as a whole, or we could analyze each individu...

To re-repeat ourselves: A Canticle for Leibowitz can be read as one whole, or as three different stories. In this section, we'll be analyzing how the whole novel fits into Booker's "Tragedy" plot...

Forgive us if we're repeating ourselves, but A Canticle for Leibowitz is both a whole novel and three very distinct stories. So you can analyze the three-act plot structure of the novel as a whole,...

(1)Walter M. Miller's short, yet prolific, writing career is one for the record books—in both good and sad ways. Miller began publishing science fiction stories in 1951 and stopped in 1957 to foc...

A novel set in a monastery, in the middle of the American southwest after it's been turned into a nuclear wasteland. Sex is probably the last thing on these monks' minds. They're too busy trying to...

Paul Brians's excellent translation of A Canticle's Latinate phrases helped us to find some of these more obscure shout-outs. Thank you, Professor Brians.William Shakespeare, Hamlet (5.16)Albertus...