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American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

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...

Walt Whitman's Influence on D.H. Lawrence

1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...

Characterization as a Literary Technique

remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...

Pressures and Identity

She states, "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good" (Gilman). By the end of he...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...

Garden of Eden in The Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau and Candide by Voltaire

truly a place of bliss where nothing but a good and wonderful existence greeted Adam and Eve each and every day. However, there w...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Volume III by Jawanza Kunjufu

black children. For example, in chapter 1, Kunjufu cites a study that shows that from infancy through three-years-old, black chil...

Point of View from the First Person

through the observations of bystanders, but through his own words that interpret his own feelings and anxiety about the situation....

Novel as a Successful Form of Literature

in our relationships with family and friends, in our working environments - all of these play an important role in who we are, and...

Poetry and Literary Effectiveness on the Topic of Lynching

water, boiling my limbs panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of death (Wright, 2003)....

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

Critique of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

as a first attempt one can see the underlying brilliance that will shine through in later novel attempts. As has been said, "Auste...

18th Century Literature and Reflections of Commerce and Trade

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...

Literature of Early Africa and Identity

how Africa had been at some point before its development. While the old works cited above do provide a sense of identity for the p...

Trio of Essays on To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

In nine pages 3 essays are presented regarding Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not that offer personal opinions, literary anal...

The Lais by Marie de France

to aristocratic women, or it may have been included simply as a necessary literary device that aided Marie in recounting the condi...

'Man of Law's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this research pape considers the era of Geoffrey Chaucer and Medieval literary customs in this comparative examinati...

An Overview of Harriet Beecher's Uncle Tom's Cabin

In five pages this American literary classic is presented in an overview. There are no other sources listed....

The Song of Roland and Its Interpretation

In nine pages this paper analyzes this Medieval literary work in a consideration of plot, characters, and message. There are no o...

Role of Marriage as Represented in 2 Literary Works

In five pages this paper compares North and South by Gaspell and Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray in terms of how marriage and its ro...

Literary and Historical Meaning of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin

In five pages this report discusses the historical tragedy that was inspired by the ill fated czar of the late sixteenth and early...

Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

Aristotle's Poetics and Oedipus

In five pages this paper examines how a tragic literary hero is defined by Aristotle in Poetics and then applied to Oedipus. One ...

Juvenile Literature and 'Outsider' Children

In five pages social exclusion of children for various reasons are examined within the context of such juvenile literary works as ...

Focusing on Medieval Literary Suffering

In this paper of five pages the human suffering featured in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and 'Beowulf' along with other theme...