Essays on Literary Genres

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Reproduction and The Shattered Aura in Don Delillo’s White Noise

9 pages / 4292 words

Walter Benjamin’s work as a philosopher and theorist speaks at length of mechanical reproduction and the impact it has on society. Benjamin’s work can therefore be applied to the society depicted in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, illuminating it as one of reproduction illustrated in...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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The Purity of Whores and The Taint of Happy Memories: Exploring The Inversion of Taboos in Whores for Gloria

4 pages / 1706 words

In a world where happy stories become sad stories and sad ones are transformed into happy ones, where “once upon a time” begins a tale of a police decoy on a drug bust, inversions of what is considered normal come to be expected. This world...

Novel

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Technology as a True Menace to Society in White Noise

3 pages / 1329 words

Don DeLillo’s modern classic, White Noise, examines a so-called normal family in 1980s America to demonstrate the pervasive nature of technology in contemporary society. Technology and media have become a staple in the everyday life of the average American, and its prevalence in peoples’ lives...

Novel White Noise

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Doctors as Authority Figures in White Noise

4 pages / 1636 words

In the novel White Noise, written by Don DeLillo, the Gladney family often succumbs to the supposed authority and superior knowledge of doctors. The Gladneys are extremely intimidated by the doctors and they feel as though the physicians are all-knowing and hold some kind of...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Delillo’s White Noise and The Family

2 pages / 1092 words

Don Dellilo’s protagonist in his novel “White Noise,” Jack Gladney, has a “nuclear family” that is, ostensibly, a prime example of the disjointed nature way of the “family” of the 80’s and 90’s — what with Jack’s multiple past marriages and the fact that his...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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The Fragmented American Family in "White Noise"

6 pages / 2800 words

The family is the strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. (82) 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 Delillo’s portrayal of the American family...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Creating to Belong: Tuyen’s Artwork in What We All Long for

4 pages / 1854 words

In Dionne Brand’s novel What We All Long For, each of the central characters attempts to define and redefine what it means to belong through their own experiences and interactions. For Tuyen, belonging is not defined by identifying with specific communities, but by fluidity and...

Novel

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Joyce Carol Oates and Sowing Wild Oats: Context for "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"

7 pages / 3214 words

The life and times of Joyce Carol Oates dynamically impact the short story, “Where You Are Going; Where Have You Been” in which music, myth and mores shape the social text corresponding with the 1960s. The 1965 rock song, “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue”...

Fiction

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Mendelsund’s Theories Represented in Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters Remix

3 pages / 1316 words

Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters Remix reflects multiple theories presented in Peter Mendelsund’s What We See When We Read. Throughout Palahniuk’s episodic novel, the reader is taken, nonlinearly, through the life of protagonist, Shannon McFarland. McFarland, a former fashion model, purposely injures her face in attempt...

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Women’s Evolving Role in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"

3 pages / 1496 words

The 1950s brought about a multitude of changes in the culture of the United States: “conservative family values and morals were threatened as the decade came to a close” (Literature and Its Times). What was unthinkable in the 1940s gradually became the norm in the...

Fiction

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The Giving Tree: The Cost of Altruism in Hedges’s Novel

2 pages / 965 words

The Giving Tree: A Tale of Sacrifice and Altruism The popular children’s book The Giving Tree tells the story of a tree that loves a boy so completely and selflessly that it is willing to give up everything it has for the boy. Gilbert Grape...

Novel

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Displacement and Reaction: Analyzing When The Emperor Was Divine

2 pages / 1117 words

The characters in the novel When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka find themselves in a rather comforting place they call “home.” The father has a job outside the home, the mother works inside the home, and the children go to school and make...

Novel

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Representation of Japanese Americans in When The Emperor Was Divine

4 pages / 1730 words

Many scholars have scrutinized the idea of going “beyond Black and White” in relation to the construction of the Asian American identity. Many arguments have been put forward to explain the possible factors that eventually lead to the perpetuation of the “model minority myth” and...

Novel

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Man Versus Nature: Descriptions and Messages in When The Killing's Done

2 pages / 1129 words

In the contemporary novel When the Killing’s Done, author T.C. Boyle tells the powerfully relevant story of Alma Boyd Takesue, her antagonist Dave Lajoy, and their attempts to exert dominion over the natural world. Set on the Channel Islands off the coast of California, the...

Novel

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Character Analysis of Anise from When The Killing's Done by T. C. Boyle

2 pages / 1072 words

In the contemporary novel When The Killing’s Done by T.C. Boyle, the secondary character Anise is an animal-loving singer who is dating the leader of an unethical organization called FPA, Dave LaJoy, she often helps his organization and consequently dies. Though her actions are misled,...

Novel

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"Why I Hate Raisins" and "No More Cake Here": Analysis The Physical and Psychological Hunger

3 pages / 1448 words

The concept of hunger can be used to represent many different things, whether it be in the physical, emotional, or conceptual sense. In Natalie Diaz’s poetry, hunger serves to represent ideas in both physical and psychological ways. She places the concept of hunger skillfully throughout...

Poetry

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Gender and Nature in Alice Oswald’s Daisy

2 pages / 817 words

In ‘Daisy’, Alice Oswald uses the evolving imagery of a narrator considering her actions towards a daisy to symbolise the meekness and conformity socially linked to womanhood- and the poem’s progressively aggressive tone mirrors her desire to reject these feminine ideals. Nonetheless, the constant focus...

Poetry

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A Leader to Lead Them All: Hazel and El-ahrairah

2 pages / 779 words

In the novel Watership Down, Hazel, leader of the Sandleford Warren escaped rabbits, demonstrates many ways in which he is similar to the bunny-famous mythological hero “El-ahrairah”. To rabbit-kind, El-ahrairah is a rolemodel, a leader and an inspiration. To the Watership Down rabbits, Hazel is...

Novel

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Temptation and Surveillance in We

3 pages / 1486 words

Temptation lures people to succumb to suppressed human instincts, yet together with surveillance, the opposing forces create a precarious balance between resurgence and restraint. This conflict influences the characters in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, which follows cipher D-503’s experience in the oppressed One State as he...

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