Essays 451 - 480
One could argue that perhaps Ibsen told the press he was not a feminist in order to get the media off his back, but the...
whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...
he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...
she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...
considered to be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other wor...
be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...
That is, non-ecocritics appear to be uncomfortable with criticism that acknowledges the fact that it is possible the natural world...
way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...
bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...
times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...
the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...
This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
this Gospel. This theory can be supported by the fact that Peter spent his last days in Rome and it was in Rome that Peter was mar...
audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...
of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...
This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...