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'The Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

In four pages Kafka's effective tongue in cheek literary style is examined within the context of this humorous short story. There...

Literary Modernism

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...

Renaissance Neoplatonic Beauty and The Courtier by Castiglione

In six pages this paper considers the aesthetic objectives of Neoplatonic beauty in terms of the art of Leonardo da Vinci and Mich...

E.M. Forster and Martha Nussbaum

In six pages this report examines class consciousness and inequalities as represented in E.M. Forster's Edwardian novel Howards En...

Historical Language in the Works of Spenser and Milton

In ten pages this essay examines how language complements Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' as each text ...

Reflection of Self in 'Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle

In this paper consisting of eight pages the characteristics between the author and his most famous literary creation are considere...

Opium and the Life of Thomas DeQuincey's as Revealed in Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

English Romantic Thomas DeQuincey no only used opium but was addicted to it. It possessed his life and played a critical role in ...

The Thematic Significance of Fire in British Literature

This paper addresses the various roles of fire in three British literary works, Blake's, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Bronte's...

Inland Passage by Jane Rule and Araby by James Joyce

In five pages this essay considers the journey of the soul in a comparative analysis of these literary works. Two sources are lis...

Artistry in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages the literary artistry of James Joyce is examined in a consideration of this novel's dramatic form, language, and sy...

Transitional Figure Petrarch

In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...

An Examination of the Literary Criticism Launched Against Athenian Politics

This ten page paper explores the criticism Greek writers and philosophers such as Euripedes, Socrates, and Aeschylus had for the A...

Literary Themes and the Life of Ambrose Bierce

literature and his father had an impressive library (Ambrose Bierce, 2002). Bierces family was considered to be "sternly religiou...

Literary Influence of the Romantic Period

self realization, self expression and self reliance were all an aspect of the awareness of the self within the natural world. The ...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

Ernest Hemingway's Life and Literary Works

suffered a severe leg wound and was twice decorated by the Italian government. His affair with an American nurse, Agnes von Kurows...

An Analysis of The Epic Poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...

Setting as Portrayed in Works by Richard Shelton and Leslie Marmon Silko

visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...

Cultural Realities and the Works of Flannery O'Connor

OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...

Identifying William Shakespeare

never formally addressing any attacks on his work, commenting on his popularity or penning any eulogy to any of the members of the...

The Literary Techniques of William Faulkner

This paper addresses Faulkner's various literary techniques, such as setting, theme, and characterization, in his short story, Bar...

Langston Hughes's 'I Too' and Walt Whitman's 'I Hear America Singing' Poetry Comparison

each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...

Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, Toni Morrison's Beloved and Ghosts

Set just after the civil war Sethe is a runaway slave who had once killed her infant daughter so that she would not grow up in the...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Genetic Engineering

In three pages genetic engineering as they are represented in these two literary works are contrasted and compared in terms of the...

Fitzgerald and Williams in Terms of Style, Theme, and Characterization

In six pages the stories 'Crazy Sunday' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin' by Tenness...

The Nature of Radical Innocence in Literary Depiction

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, James Joyce's 'The Dead' and Gender

In five pages gender and how it influences relationships are examined within the context of these literary works. Four sources ar...

The Concept of Ambition as Reflected in Literature

In five pages the idea of ambition is discussed in an examination of such literary works as A Delicate Balance by Jose Armas, Balt...

Literary Analysis of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and its Feminism Theme

In five pages this tale is examined in terms of how the feminist theme is conveyed through symbolism, tone, and language literary ...