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Mann, Gide, Kafka, Woolf, and Modernism

It was realistic, but the writing was complicated and required the reader to become intimately involved with the subject matter. ...

Modernist Franz Kafka

In five pages modernism of Europe and how it is reflected in Franz Kafka's The Castle and The Trial are examined. There are no ot...

Comparing 2 Short Stories by Franz Kafka

In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and the Character of Grete Samsa

himself as comfortable as he wished" (Kafka 145). During those terrifying early days, when Gregor was uncertain what was overtaki...

Bleak Human Condition in Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

Gregor Samsa Must Transform Into a Beetle in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

the past into the present in support of a future. Sigmund Freud believed that only by freeing repressed happiness, can an individu...

Outside Looking In

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

Contemporary Literature Essay Tutorial

In five pages this tutorial essay considers Virginia Woolf's use of stream of consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway, T.S. Eliot's free ve...

Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Literary Modernism

In 5 page this paper defines modernism and then critically applies the concept to T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' and 'Tradition an...

Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Andre Gide on Freedom

the cellars of the Vatican. Meanwhile, in the Popes place is an imposter. The Countess, of course, quickly antes up the money that...

Definition and Application of Postmodernism

of these schools of thought was sufficient, but that there could be the existence of the competing thoughts that create conflict ...

Wholeness and Self Awareness

restricted in its understanding. At the very core of personhood is a sense of being. From that single source stems all other qua...

Woolf/A Room of One's Own

are locked out of the creative heart of society is addressed quite literally by Woolf in her first chapter. The narrator is medita...

Literary Modernism

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...

Modernist Themes in 'Death in Venice' and 'Mrs. Dalloway' Compared

Complex inner feelings and emotions as conveyed by modernist authors Thomas Mann and Virginia Woolf are compared and contrasted al...

Purity, Childhood, and Sexuality in Colette's The Pure and The Impure and Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters

laps at its literary feet (Gide PG). Throughout Colettes The Pure and the Impure, the reader is forced to determine just wh...

Theme of Death in Colette's The Retreat From Love and Andre Gide's The Immoralist

In six pages these works are considered in terms of the narrative function of death regarding the passing of spouses at the conclu...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot

(Longman, 2001). Others, however, bravely forged away from tradition and convention. Longman (2001, PG) notes:...

High Modernism and Postmodern Art in the Works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Gregor Samsa's Changes in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

concerned that he cant get up and go to work to support his family. Even from the start, he does not want to be a burden on his fa...

Human Isolation in The Country Doctor and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

Creative Depiction of Women

In six pages this paper examines how women are portrayed in the works of Gustave Courbet, Charles Darwin, Franz Kafka, and Virgini...

Woolf's Orlando and Gender

Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel is the focus of attention here. Gender is discussed in this context. Woolf seems to claim that gende...

The Feminist Works Of Virginia Woolf

This paper examines Virginia Woolf's feminist ideology in her various novels and essays. The author contends that Woolf believed ...

Virginia Woolf and Ibsen

When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...

Marriage During the Victorian Era and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

and mother. Nor does she seem to have regretted that - basically, she had no choice in the matter. Mr. Ramsay...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...

Emily Mann's The Execution of Justice and Social Injustice

an interesting portrayal of the injustices which exist in American culture and, in particular, our justice system. The play is cl...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...