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Depiction of Death in Don DeLillo's White Noise

In five pages this paper analyzes how death is depicted in Don DeLillo's postmodern tale White Noise. One source is listed in the...

Fantasy vs. Realism in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

In ten pages this paper examines the realism and fantasy aspects of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Eleven sources are cited ...

Fantasy Woman in Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

In eight pages the 'fantasy' women depicted in Marlowe's 16th century play are discussed in terms of their pornographic characteri...

Postmodern Playwright Marina Carr

theatrical works - old and new. One of those "new" Irish playwrights is Marina Carr (1964 -- ). Irish Invasion of Theater...

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...

Feminism, The Female Form, and Postmodern Art

This paper addresses the ways in which the female body has been adorned and admired throughout the history of art. The author com...

Christian Boltanski's Art

of Christian Boltanski, who was just beginning to how his group in solo and group exhibition, but many had not. A few of those who...

Scottish Writer Andrew Lang the Arabian Nights

In three pages this paper applies Arabian Nights to an analysis of Andrew Lang's personality and love of fantasy. One source is l...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's As the Master of Magic Realism

fantastic styles of Latin-American writing: magic realism. "The tone that I eventually used in One Hundred Years of Solitude was ...

Nationalism and Religious Fundamentalism

In seven pages this paper examines how the postmodern landscape has been influenced by images of religious fundamentalism and nati...

Contemporary Symbolic Logic History

Aristotelian philosophy is a good place to start. For Aristotle,...

Orwell’s Nightmare Made Real

them open to all kinds of abuses, including torture. Many Americans feel that torture is justified if it will save innocent lives,...

Aspects of Modern and Postmodern Art

from representational meaning and locating the meaning of the art within the work itself (Fleming 364). On the other hand, abstrac...

Postmodernism in Slaughterhouse-Five

the painter to paint the picture (time of production), the time required to look at and understand the work (time of consumption) ...

Controlling Past, Present and Future

so now that it seems to be coming true. With newspapers disappearing and media companies merging into fewer and fewer giant corpor...

The Fantasy of Romance in Three Novels

of the characters faces so that we can see, for instance, how Mr. Darcy reacts to Elizabeths snub or the reaction of the Bennett w...

'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...

Watership Down by Richard Adams and Home

In eight pages this paper considers how home is transferred from a physical to philosophical sense in this postmodern novel. Ther...

William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch and Freedom

In 8 pages the ways in which this postmodern novel develops concepts of mental and physical freedom are examined. There are 8 sou...

Feminism and Michel Foucault

In ten pages this paper discusses how Michel Foucault is largely responsible for postmodern and poststructural concepts of women w...

Writing a Fantasy Story

parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...

Gatsby’s Fantasy

believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your...

GloboChrist by Carl Raschke

of Westerners who "cling to the outmoded modernist assumption that Christianity is basically the same, or should be the same, ever...

Innocence and Its Burdens

in love, but "the happiness that should have followed this love not having come" she thought she must have made a mistake (Flauber...

Suicide And Sociological Theories

what choices they believe they have to better their lives; as such, they become all the more vulnerable to being influenced in the...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

C.S. Lewis/The Great Divorce

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Princess Diana’s Death

was in terms of the media, so are many people in the world. President Bush is surely a victim of the press, and perhaps rightly so...

Fantasy: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...