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Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

American Author Washington Irving

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

Significance of Slave Narratives

control of countries worldwide. Naturally, showing dark natives the benefits of Western culture did not come without a price, as E...

Maya Angelou Gives an Eloquent Voice to This Generation

this definition of black heroism and to the outline of a typical success story" (Walker, 1995, p. 91). Angelou is as simple...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Materialism

with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

African American Poetry and Fiction Analysis

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

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...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Society and Marriage According to Various Literary Interpretations

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the marriage perspectives of Mary Astell and Margery Kempe and discusses how society ...

Literary Portrayals of the Conflict Between Individuals and Society

In five pages this paper examines how the individual v. society conflict was portrayed in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, R...

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

David Hare's Play Amy's View

In 6 pages this paper considers the play in terms of a critical, literary historical, and interdisciplinary literary analysis. Th...

Three Views of the Slave Trade in Africa

and time period under discussion. Eric Williams Williams begins his argument by pointing out that "unfree labor" in the New Worl...

Marriage in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -Merchant and Wife of Bath

A paper comparing and contrasting the views of marriage by two of Chaucer's characters in The Canterbury Tales, the Merchant and t...

The Use of Dialect by Swift, Blake and Conrad

Joseph Conrad's use of dialect and other literary techniques was influenced by many writers who came before. This paper links his ...

Caribbean Literary Themes

In five pages this paper discusses the literary themes in the Caribbean literary examples The Chosen Place, the Timeless People, T...

The Transformation of Attitudes about Death and Dying

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

Time, Place, and Action Unities and the Neoclassicism of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In eighteen pages this report considers how literary unities are to be represented in literary works with Sophocles following the ...

A Literary Hero: Henry V

Is Henry V really a literary hero? The paper argues that he is a literary hero and in fact could serve as a role model in today's ...

Three Views on Objective Understanding of the Social World

This research paper/essay pertain to how positivism, feminism and critical realism interpret objectivity in regards to understandi...

Views on South African Slavery

This research paper/essay addresses the view of historian Robert Shell on the nature of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony and ...

Man and Technology: Three Views of Our Future

of sex and love. Harraway explores technology from a feminist perspective, from the perspective of how man and machine can blend ...

Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18, 73, and 130

While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...