YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Literary Transcendentalism by Lawrence Buell
Essays 601 - 630
down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...
is based upon Lemuel Gulliver, who was a ships surgeon and he tells of being shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput (Summary of Gul...
was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...
his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...
not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...
or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...
the undercurrent of human conflict is more than apparent as evidence of how plot is a function of character. "The evening, I reme...
In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...
He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...
In five pages this paper applies the human personality theories of Sigmund Freud to an analysis of these two classic literary char...
short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...
essentially touched upon all that was important and relevant to the African American. He was born James Langston Hughes on Feb....
not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...
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...
of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....
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...
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...
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...
first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...