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Clever Women in Modern Detective Fiction

the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...

Science Fiction Defined

form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us, the possible consequences, and the possible...

Overview of Postmodern Science Fiction

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

Fantasy Literature and Science Fiction

has its own set of rules, mostly that there are no rules. So perhaps a better paradigm to explore is whether or not, within a giv...

Life of Tillie Olsen in Her Stories

may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Fiction That is Historical and Realistic

realistically presented (Tyson 155). For example, after reading Fly Away Home (E. Bunting, 1991), a story that concerns a homeless...

A Research Paper and Essay on 3 Independent Films

The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...

Intellectual and the Comic in 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O'Brien

"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...

Postwar British Fiction and Decline Theme

reality of the war, of its physical wounds were to be seen. This had to have had a psychological impact on the people of the count...

The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

and destiny (Aubrey). While Darwin pictures humanity as consistently evolving toward more intelligence and reason, Huxleys take on...

Characters in Literary Works Contrasts

success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...

Anthony J. Bell's 'Levels and Loops: the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience'

possibilities that we have lying in store for us in the future as a diagnosis of the present. Bell concludes that:...

Quentin Tarantino's Controversial Film Pulp Fiction

In 5 pages this paper examines the cinematic style of director Quentin Tarantino in this thematic analysis of the controversial fi...

Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee's Rama II

the fact that there may be disagreement in discerning whether or not the teams were more homogeneous than mixed. In other words, o...

Reality and Fiction Blurred in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

In five pages this paper discusses how the author is able to blur reality and fiction through his unique novel structure in The Th...

The Accurate Portrayal of Ancient Egypt in Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie

In a report consisting of twelve pages the setting of Christie's fiction and the portrayal of families remarkably similar to those...

Science Fiction and Gender

In eight pages this paper examines how gender influences science fiction tastes in terms of male and female preferences with a dis...

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creation of Terror

In six pages Tolkien's science fiction fantasy is examined in terms of how the author generated terror throughout the novel. Seve...

Literature on Civil Rights

In five pages literature on civil rights that is both nonfiction and fiction is considered and includes a discussion of Confrontin...

Business World and 'A Hero's Journey'

In five pages this research paper applies Christopher Vogler's 'hero's journey' concepts to Fictions of Business by Robert Brawer....

'Experiment' by Julian Barnes and Postmodern Fiction

In three pages postmodern fiction is defined and then considered within the context of 'Experiment,' a short story by Julian Barne...

Slow River by Griffith and Search for Identity

In 10 pages this science fiction text is examined regarding the identity search of the protagonist. There are 2 sources cited in ...

Leadership Stories in Howard Gardner's Leading Minds

In ten pages this report discusses the leadership concepts featured in Howard Gardner's text with additional insights from Christo...

'An Image of Africa' and 'Heart of Darkness'

This paper consists of 3 pages and considers the emotional elements that characterize these novels by Chinua Achebe and Joseph Con...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Interpreting Ophelia's Madness in the Fourth Act, Fifth Scene 3 Different Ways

In nine pages this paper examines how Victorian theater actress Helena Faucit, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, and Shakespear...

Literary Reality and Fiction

In five pages this paper discusses the representation of reality and fiction in literature in an examination of Chekhov's The Thre...

Power and Gender in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Charles Dickens' David Copperfield

In twelve pages this paper examines the themes of gender and power as they are represented in these works of literary fiction. Te...

Smell Imagery in Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

preserve at least the signs of order" (Atwood 93). The narrators past contained so many painful memories that she created a fict...

Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Literary Modernism

In 5 page this paper defines modernism and then critically applies the concept to T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' and 'Tradition an...