Essays on Literary Genres

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Palahniuk’s View of Society

4 pages / 1699 words

In literary history, authors often mirrored the social situation of its time through their works. For this reason, many of the greatest works were seen as representations of some social affairs, wars, political movements and other occurrences of the period of time during which the...

Book Review Fight Club Novel

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Forms of Psychoanalysis in Keats, Smith and Wordsworth

2 pages / 991 words

While oftentimes viewed as contributing to the development of Freudian psychoanalysis, the psychological discourse, and specifically that which deals with the unconscious (the part of the psyche which subjects are actively unaware), of Romantic poetry can also be seen as possessing various methods of its...

Poetry Romanticism

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The Union of Opposing Elements by Wordsworth and Coleridge

4 pages / 1941 words

The Romantic Era was a time when people embraced imagination, emotion, and freedom – quite a contrast to the preceding Neoclassic Era, which emphasized the values of reason, judgment, and authority. The values of the so-called Romantics are embodied in the poetry which developed during...

Poetry Romanticism

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The Creative Function of Ekphrasis in The Work of Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth

4 pages / 1710 words

Aesthetic critics and writers of the 18th century wrestled with a number of questions regarding beauty, nature, mimesis, art, and the sublime and how they all related to one another. One of these queries concerned mind and matter – that is, whether beauty is a...

Poetry Romanticism

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Nature and The Speaker's Mind in Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

3 pages / 1180 words

William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a lyric poem, which deals with the speaker’s state of mind. The description of the process, which the speaker goes through, is represented by a natural scene where the speaker, plants and the surroundings become united....

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Poetry Romanticism

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Postcolonial Criticism of Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek

2 pages / 966 words

Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek is rife with elements of postcolonial ideologies that insert themselves into the story and create tension for the protagonist by “othering” her and her family through a form of orientalism that stereotypes Mexicans and portrays them as helpless, savage, substandard...

Short Story

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The Ugly in Sandra Cisneros’ "Bien Pretty"

3 pages / 1217 words

“Bien Pretty,” as the title implies, is a story that invests in appearance. Throughout the story, prettiness is used as a proxy for authenticity and confidence in one’s identity, while ugliness is a stand-in for performed identity. Flavio’s appearance initially attracts Lupe because he physically...

Short Story

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Law and Ethics in Wise Blood

3 pages / 1258 words

Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood addresses the laws and ethics of 20th Century America. Laws and ethics may seem to correlate, but Wise Blood shows that such is not always the case. Laws may claim to have ethical origins and serve ethical purposes, but Wise Blood...

Novel

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Winter’s Bone Character Analysis

3 pages / 1338 words

Daniel Woodrell creates a protagonist in his novel, Winter’s Bone, who is prideful, resilient and would do anything to preserve her own kin and blood. Woodrell also allows the reader to see her weaknesses, making identification with her character easily done. Ree Dolly faces challenges...

Character Fiction

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The Hellfire of Puritanism: a Historical Consideration of Wigglesworth’s "The Day of Doom"

4 pages / 1975 words

Explicit accounts of hellfire and damnation may not be the hallmarks of contemporary popular novels, but America’s first bestseller was full of such shocking imagery. Graphic illustrations of the Christian faith’s Judgment Day saturate Michael Wigglesworth’s poem, “The Day of Doom.” Published in 1662, this...

Poetry

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Too Much Commitment: The Paradox of Marriage in Adventure

3 pages / 1150 words

In “Adventure” from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, the protagonist, Alice Hindman, embodies the truth of marriage. As Alice’s story demonstrates, however, marriage leads to two seemingly contradictory traits when it is taken as a personal truth to be lived. On the one hand, marriage means...

Short Story

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Analysis of Thematic Structures in "Cane" and "Winesburg, Ohio"

8 pages / 3639 words

“Life is swift, and the value of life is the value of every moment.” -Waldo Frank Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Out of all the readings...

Short Story Winesburg Ohio

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Capitalism in Sherwood Anderson’s "Mother"

2 pages / 894 words

In Sherwood Anderson’s “Mother,” Tom Willard takes centre stage as the role of the obnoxious, vain husband who shamelessly blames his wife, Elizabeth Willard, for his own unhappiness. He views her with blatant contempt and finds her existence unbearable to the extent that her very...

Capitalism Short Story

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Development of Mystery in Wieland

3 pages / 1535 words

Lonely mansions, ghostly apparitions, and magic are some of the elements that create the atmosphere in Gothic stories. In his novel Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown uses most of these to create an aura of mystery and suspense. Brown once said that the Gothic novel was...

Gothic Fiction Novel

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Representing Early America in "Wieland"

7 pages / 2986 words

In the gothic novel Wieland [1], Charles Brockden Brown confronts the anxieties of the early United States Republic regarding the sense of the threat posed by “wandering anarchists, dangerous foreigners and murderous savages.” As a work of the transnational imaginary, Wieland centers on the impact...

Gothic Fiction Novel

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This is Your Brain on Technology: Don Delillo’s White Noise

5 pages / 1022 words

In Don DeLillo’s White Noise, the pervasive influence of technology infiltrates the lives of its characters, creating a cacophony of distractions that mask genuine human interaction. The protagonist, Jack Gladney, frequently refers to the television as the ‘voice’ from the other room, symbolizing its omnipresence...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Analysis of White Noise as a Real Dystopia

3 pages / 1247 words

Don DeLillo’s post-modern novel White Noise examines the relativity of meaning in a consumer and media-controlled society. A classic dystopia comments on society’s reliance on the media, and in White Noise, it creates character identity instability and hyperreality. However, White Noise does not completely portray...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Confronting The Fear of Death in "White Noise"

3 pages / 1153 words

Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise confronts the primal fear of death much in the way his own characters do– by nullifying or minimizing this otherwise terrifying human phenomenon. What is referred to as “white noise” in the novel is the barrage of modern life that...

Novel White Noise

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Reality, Technology, and Simulations; Postmodernism and Post-structuralism in Don Delillo’s ‘white Noise’

5 pages / 2345 words

Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise is a text firmly situated in the modern world. Through the novel, part Postmodernist satire part Post-Structuralist understanding of the world, DeLillo presents an incredibly cynical view of the modern world through his narrator and protagonist Jack Gladney, the head...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise