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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...

The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNickle

frame. Archilde says: "One had only to go into daylight to realize how preposterous such things were" (McNickle, 1935, p. 106). ...

Literary Period Known as the Anti Heroic Age

and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...

Bram Stoker and Dracula

of the novel is concerned with conflict in one form or another: the overt differences between the fictionalised East Europe of Sto...

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

a significance in the fact that precisely at midnight on August 15, 1947, the actual date of independence, two babies would come i...

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...

Self Discovery and French Literature's Evolution

good deal of the literature at the time. Lyric poetry more than likely arose from the songs of the minstrels and the singers whi...

Pamela Joern/"Judgment Day"

This essay presents a literary analysis of "Judgment Day" by Pamela Joern. Three pages in length, one source is cited....

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...

"2b or Not 2b" by David Crystal

This essay pertains to "2b or Not 2b" an article by David Crystal, in which he defends texting as a behavior that is actually bene...

Lyrical Left Wing Greenwich Village Community

the writers within Greenwich Village had in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century. The Greenwich Village writers i...

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 ...

Literary Time Periods

daddy, you bastard, Im through" (Plath). Throughout the poem, which is full of Nazi imagery, she has compared herself to a Jew, a...

An Idealistic Literary Vision of America

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...

Richard III by William Shakespeare and Morality Play Period Staging

between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...

History and Concept of the Play The Cradle Will Rock

The battle included the use of guns and dynamite. When the battle ended, sixteen people were dead, and almost 160 were wounded (A...

Analysis of Youth Medieval Play

embodiment of youthful confidence. He is a young man full of vigor, and, therefore, feels invisible. Furthermore, he is full of h...

Play Analysis of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Moliere

against this classical style (Fact Monster). In political and social perspective it is noted that "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The W...

August Wilson's Play Fences

powerfully fertile environment for them all. She also loves to garden and this becomes a very vital part of the theme of fences in...

The Apple Tree Dutch Medieval Morality Play

their apples will find himself stuck fast to the tree until Open Heart releases them ("Apple Tree" 453). God agrees. 8. ACTIONS ...

Tom Dyja's Play for a Kingdom

ball games" (Lychack, 1998). What they are doing is extremely dangerous, in many senses. Not only is fraternization with the e...

History Plays of William Shakespeare

For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

Literary Analysis of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

Literary Tools Used by Emily Dickinson

61). Symbolism is the use of one thing to stand for or suggest another; a falling leaf to symbolize death, for example. And langua...

Fitzgerald's Literary Influences, and His Influence on Literature

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...

Literary View of Human Calamity

bombs on the city that they created a firestorm-a self-perpetuating inferno that destroyed the city almost complete. The worst par...

Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism Revealed in His Play No Exit

difficult to define as it is a philosophy that originated with one philosopher (Kierkegaard) but has been embraced by a good numbe...

Play It, Sam

rest of the film details the relationships among the three principles, as well as the crafty Police Prefect, Louis Renault (Claude...