Essays on Literary Genres

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Escaping from Daily Miseries: Comparing Mitchell and Frost

4 pages / 1908 words

Escapism is a method one uses to focus attention on pleasant or enjoyable things, as opposed to the harsh realities of everyday life. Humans face countless struggles, and to overcome these they turn towards their imagination or other means in life to slip away from...

Novel

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The Societal Regulation of Identity: a Comparison of Lahiri and Soto

3 pages / 1442 words

Jhumpa Lahiri and Christopher Soto, in their respective pieces “Hell-Heaven” and “Winter Sundays”, discuss the restrictions on cultural expression for minority groups. The claim of both authors is that there is a unique cultural identity for each person, and that society has always tried to...

Short Story

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Under The Jaguar Sun: Three Themes, One Cohesive Whole

6 pages / 2760 words

Italo Calvino’s Under the Jaguar Sun is based almost entirely on a foundation of three essential themes, all of which relate in some way to the sensation of taste. While Calvino creates many antitheses, the dissonances actually turn into wonderful resolutions. This applies specifically to...

Short Story

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Innovative Literary Devices in 1919

2 pages / 1032 words

Too often in literature, novels surrounding a specific time period lack the authenticity of mise-en-scene for the reader. However, author John Dos Passos commits to unique and innovative writing techniques in his novel 1919 (one of the three entries in the U.S.A. Trilogy) to deliver...

Book Review Literary Devices Novel

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A Native Role; Gary Snyder as The Seer and Prophet in ‘turtle Island’

3 pages / 1550 words

Charles Altieri writes that in his collection of poetry, Turtle Island, Gary Snyder encapsulates two roles: the seer and the prophet. Altieri describes the two roles vaguely, the seer being one who is able to look past the irrelevant aspects of modern life to a...

Poetry

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The Theme of Authenticity in The Novel Trumpet

2 pages / 837 words

Jackie Kay’s novel Trumpet depicts characters who naturally challenge the conventional perceptions of race, gender, identity, and other socially constructed aspects of humanity. The text is set in the United Kingdom in the early to mid twentieth century, a time when being unconventional in these...

Novel

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Arjun as as Dynamic Character in Tusk and Stone

1 page / 639 words

In the novel Tusk and Stone, by Malcolm Bosse, Arjun is the dynamic character. A dynamic character is one who learns a lesson or changes behavior as a result of story events. When he is first introduced, Arjun is living with his family members his...

Character Novel

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The Writing Style of Gary Schmidt's Trouble

2 pages / 807 words

Most people do not focus on the writing style of a novel and tend to pay more attention to the broader contours of the story line. When reading Gary Schmidt’s Trouble, the reader should pay attention to writing style because it is different from most...

Fiction

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The Human V. The Machine: Dominant Images of The Body in Transatlantic

5 pages / 2315 words

Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic weaves together history and fiction to create an extremely personalized account of actual events. Two of these stories, that of Frederick Douglass coupled with those of Jack Alcock and Teddy Brown, are particularly interesting because they are predominantly concerned with the bodies...

Novel

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Travel Writing and Identity in Tristram Shandy

3 pages / 1386 words

Travel Writing and Identity in Tristram Shandy 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 In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne employs unconventional structure and...

Novel

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The Artist’s Struggle in The Work of Thomas Mann

2 pages / 897 words

In his works “Tonio Krager,” “Death in Venice,” and “Tristan,” Thomas Mann discusses the artist’s struggle in terms of who he is, who he should be, and who he will be. In the three works, the artistic protagonists struggle with either a metaphorical or physical...

Fiction

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The Ballad of Savitri: a Critique of a Critique

2 pages / 774 words

The act of revisiting the past is akin to responding to the texts that exist there in a particular culture. Since this culture is ever evolving, so is the understanding of the text. The socio-cultural changes that are brought with time lead one to look...

Poetry

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Fantastical Elements in "Top Girls"

2 pages / 724 words

Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls, which appeared in 1982, depicts key themes such as feminism and oppression throughout history. Through the main character, Marlene, we are able to see aspects of individualism, as Marlene abandons her own daughter, Angie, due to her own career aspirations....

Fantasy Literature Review

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Dueling Narrators: Exploring Narrative Distance in Tracks

3 pages / 1143 words

For a novel rife with references often complicated for non-native readers to understand, the narrative discord created within Tracks between Pauline and Nanapush only complicates the reading further. The variations in distance between the narrators and the characters, the narrators and the reader, and the...

Novel

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The Business of Language in ‘to The Welsh Critic Who Doesn't Find Me Identifiably Indian’

4 pages / 1740 words

In the poem To the Welsh Critic Who Doesn’t Find Me Identifiably Indian, Arundhathi Subramaniam explores the politics of language and how it affects the identity of Indian immigrants in England. She poses questions about where and with whom language belongs and implies that it...

Poetry

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Orual’s Universal Struggle: Conflict and Development in till We Have Faces

3 pages / 1225 words

As some may know, Till We Have Faces is far from being C.S. Lewis’ most beloved work nor is it the most accessible. However with the central story of the broken protagonist, Orual, we get a glimpse into Lewis’s interpretation of how souls are often...

Book Review Novel

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Food Symbolism in Literature: Analysis of Novels by Lewic Carroll, Grimm Brothers, and Paul Delarue

5 pages / 2190 words

Eating is not only fundamental for survival; it also offers a setting for social gatherings, where eating habits and rituals create a noticeable distinction between social classes. In literature, food often symbolizes more than pure nourishment. Food presents a contrast between order and chaos; etiquette...

Novel

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Alice as Innocence and Temptation

7 pages / 3308 words

Although there is much controversy surrounding Lewis Carroll’s relationships with and feelings towards little girls, it is a simple fact that his works “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” have been widely revered for their comedic and imaginative...

Alice in Wonderland Novel

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Poetry Elements Come to Life

2 pages / 1033 words

In Thomas Gray’s poem, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes,” he shares a story about a cat named Selima while also teaching a lesson to readers. Even though the poem is amusing, it is written and...

Poetry Romantic Era