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on The Great Gatsby, "As Puritan values gave way to an unrestrained craving for money, power, and other forms of gratification, th...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
55). The appeal of this dream attracts the interest of both Crooks and Candy, who would also like to be part of the dream, as it...
aching muscles, "Nick felt happy," as he has "left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs" (Hemi...
who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...
In fourteen pages the Middle Ages are considered in terms of iconography and Christian symbolism's influence. Ten sources are cit...
In a paper consisting of ten pages the different perspectives of the texts The City Wilderness by Robert Woods, The Origins of the...
what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...
and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...
In six pages this paper charts the course of American literature in a consideration of popular movements with examples and a focus...
as used in Sojourner Truths Aint I a Woman, becomes a persuasive technique which unites all women regardless of their color (also ...
In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...
in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...
bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...
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...
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
In six pages this paper discusses how race is presented in these African American literary works. There are no other sources cite...
the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 2001 and A Raisin in the Sun, 2001). This essay offers an in-depth overview of this Hansberry play...
In seven pages this paper discusses how the bilingual pupil can be assisted through the classroom incorporation of American litera...
In eighteen pages this paper examines the American 'Beat Generation' literary movement popular during the 1950s in a consideration...
the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...
"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...
be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...
gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...
as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...
to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...
control of countries worldwide. Naturally, showing dark natives the benefits of Western culture did not come without a price, as E...
his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...