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Education and Literature's Role

is the well read that appear to succeed in life, they have a broader base of knowledge from which to make judgements and decision....

Literature's Faust Legend

In six pages this research paper analyzes literature's various Faustian tales in a consideration of their timelessness. Four sour...

Literature's 'Three Unities'

A deetailed description of the 'three unities' as they are manifested within William Shakespeare's King Lear and Sophocles' Oedipu...

Classic Literature's Portrayal of Male Characters

In five pages this paper evaluates the realistic depiction of male characters in literature past and present in a consideration of...

African Literature's Oral Culture and Tradition

In five pages this paper examines the oral cultural traditions of Africa in a short story analysis of 'Talk' recounted by Courland...

Literature's Classic Adventure

far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" (Homer The Odyssey PG). The Odyssey was written in 800 B.C. and woven in...

Postmodernism's Rise and Literature's Fall

but vanished from the world, a look at the rise and fall of the New Criticism is rather appropriate. A set of practices called th...

Medieval Literature's Portrayal of Honor and Dishonor

In seven pages this paper examines how Medieval literature thematically portrayed honor and dishonor in a comparative analysiis of...

Critiquing Literature's Treatment of Age and Youth

In a paper of five pages the youth and age of protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and A Clean, Well Lighted...

Feminist Literature's Portrayal of Prejudice and Oppression

observance of her passage past his house. Anne knows that she does not look like she fits in, and black person in a white suburb o...

Philosophy and Literature's Importance

In five pages this paper discusses how important literature is in philosophical study. Eight sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Modernism, Feminism, and Art Essays

Nine essays totalling seventy five pages provide an integration of perspectives regarding socialization, art and art history on fe...

Comparative Analysis of French Modernism and French Impressionism Art

led the way to new forms of automatic and purely abstract painting (Stuckey, 36). If the Impressionists opened the door for new t...

Modernism, Postmodernism, and The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

the surface than was accessible through the conscious mind, and that there were ways to evoke feeling through words without flat s...

Modernism and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

She received an associates degree from Howard, which did not benefit her in any material way; following her college graduation, sh...

Modernism, James Joyce, and Lu Xun

In five pages the modernist parallels between authors James Joyce and Lu Xun are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliog...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

Modernism and 'The Garden Party' by Katherine Mansfield

In six pages this essay presents a modernist interpretation of this short story by Katherine Mansfield. Three sources are cited i...

Design and Comparison Between Modernism and Postmodernism

Modern Design Famed architect Phillip Johnson tells students that modernism has debts to past styles, but architecture is changin...

Artists and the Modernism of Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, and Jackson Pollock

movement, and the unofficial capital of the international avant-garde. This was as much of a shock to American artists as it was t...

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...

Post-Modernism and Filmmaker David Lynch

of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...

Literary Genres Modernism and Postmodernism

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and Modernism

status of the individual" (Burns, 1969, p. 395). The context of culture changed as cities expanded and increasing trade brought in...

Literary Periods Romanticism, Realism, Neo-Classicism, and Modernism

As the Renaissance reflected the continued influence of the Crusades, it also sprouted a period of romanticism that was more than ...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Modernism And Religion

new, more modernistic approach. During this period, there was a particular emphasis placed upon rationalism, which was a theory a...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

Architecture and Modernism

with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...