Essays 1 - 30
In ten pages this report compares romantic and classic traditions as they are reflected in literary criticism. Five sources are c...
This paper examines four literary criticisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown. The author also discusses Hawth...
Reed childrens nurse, Bessie. After an argument with her cousin John, Jane was cruelly punished by being locked into what was ref...
writers inherent ability to pursue even the complex of criminal concepts. Not unlike her myriad other works, the author appeals t...
This is met with adversity, in the person of Karl Lindner, who "represents white supremacy and all that is entailed in this mental...
This paper examines how Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet compare and critique 'The Second Coming' of W.B. Yeats and 'A Good Man is Har...
In five pages this paper examines how in 'The Spaces of Ethan Frome' Judith Fryer critically evaluates the famous novella by Edith...
theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her the sometimes intense and ...
This ten page paper explores the criticism Greek writers and philosophers such as Euripedes, Socrates, and Aeschylus had for the A...
In eighteen pages this paper supports Jane Tompkins' suggestions that literature instruction should address the students' minds an...
This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...
In eight pages this paper discusses how literary critics often assume the role of psychoanalyst in terms of textual interpretation...
in actual fact, every bit as forged in prejudice as American democracy. Wolfes essay is subdivided into a trio of sections. Firs...
to Rochester to collude in the concealing their past" and overall many of the episodes from the past are forgotten by "the willed ...
impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...
does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...
whole. Bosha begins the collection of criticisms and assessments by presenting an introduction to Cheever, with some reflections ...
be the definitive poetic volumes with Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). In each work, a poem entitled "Th...
The writer presents a biographical sketch of this noted African American writer. An analysis of her 1970 book completes this seve...
punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...
to agree with the first position taken, however. Many who pursue a M.A. are not explicitly seeking a teaching degree, nor a teachi...
In seven pages this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered in terms of the 19th century Realist literary criticism it generate...
This paper compares the literary criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner by Ray B. West Jr. in 'Atmosphere and Theme i...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...
the author created characters that were both believable and fully developed, which is a feat not easily accomplished in such parti...
In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...
exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...