YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Local Color in Three American Literary Works
Essays 511 - 540
was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...
through the Japanese, then the Russians and then the Chinese Communists. Reality and everyday actions became skewed as people live...
Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...
all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...
themselves whether or not the writer is referring to the natural or supernatural world as often the storyline it intercepted or ov...
is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...
reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage" (Conrad 102). In Ellisons novel we see a young B...
still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...
King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...
he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...
down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...
Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....
or morality/values. In addition, Freud also theorized that inherent in every newborn child is the urge to engage in sexual ...
to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...
out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...
of the novel is concerned with conflict in one form or another: the overt differences between the fictionalised East Europe of Sto...
However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...
in these traditional groups try to retain their language and keep their heritage alive to an extent. Their native languages of cou...
the writers within Greenwich Village had in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century. The Greenwich Village writers i...
The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...
and the Lion which he saves from a snake dragon. ANALYSIS: The story of Yvains reconciliation with Laudine mimics that whic...
he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....
There is no question that Bradford was a Puritan, and as such, offers his religious views and interpretations throughout his writi...
frame. Archilde says: "One had only to go into daylight to realize how preposterous such things were" (McNickle, 1935, p. 106). ...
and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...
fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...
black children. For example, in chapter 1, Kunjufu cites a study that shows that from infancy through three-years-old, black chil...
when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...
an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...
then that Of Love and Shadows takes place in a Latin American country that is suffering under a brutal dictatorship. Irene Beltran...