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main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...

be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...

to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...

with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...

another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...

a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...

It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

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...

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...

this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...

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

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

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

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

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