Essays on Literary Genres

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Fantasy and Fear: Examining The Narrator’s Reality

4 pages / 1875 words

The mind tends to remain at a stasis, neither consumed by pure ecstasy nor ridden with fearful anxiety. However, there may come a point in time when thoughts fluctuate between the two extremes until we are jolted back to reality’s state of neutrality, perhaps this...

Fiction

2624

Colonialism and Character Development in Season of Migration to The North

4 pages / 1736 words

Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North was first published in 1969, and has come to be regarded as outstanding in its genre. Originally written in Arabic, the book features notable parallels to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which it is considered by many...

Fiction

2625

An Examination of "Intimate Revenge" in Seamus Heaney’s "Punishment"

3 pages / 1365 words

The poem “Punishment” by Seamus Heaney was written in 1975 as a part of the anthology North. It is a part of Heaney’s bog series, in which he describes the Irish bogland, and the different artifacts and remains that have been found within the Northern...

Poetry Revenge Seamus Heaney

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Admiration in Duffy’s "Before You Were Mine" and Heaney’s "Follower"

3 pages / 1330 words

Introduction Both ‘Before you were mine’ by Carol Anne Duffy and ‘Follower’ by Seamus Heaney present the theme of admiration through their poems. As they both capture the parent-child relationship through the child’s perspective showcasing how they each viewed their parent as a role model...

Carol Ann Duffy Poetry Seamus Heaney

2627

Narration and Perspective in The Secret Sharer

2 pages / 788 words

Joseph Conrad’s story The Secret Sharer is a first-person account written in two parts from the perspective of an untried sea captain. The separation of the two segments almost perfectly coincides with a distinction in the narrative voice. In the first part of The Secret...

Short Story

2628

The Harmony of Realism and Idealism in Heaney’s Poetry

3 pages / 1216 words

The universal image of childhood that is ‘rang[ing]’ frogspawn on ‘window-sills’, ‘wait[ing] and watch[ing]’, with a fervent curiosity and admiration, until the ‘fattening dots’ dynamically metamorphose into ‘nimble swimming tadpoles’ is one, very relatable and nostalgic aspect of Heaney’s poetry that extols the carefree innocence...

Harmony Poetry Seamus Heaney

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Seamus Heaney’s Poetic Struggle with The Past in His Poem "North"

2 pages / 1117 words

In his critically acclaimed collection North, contemporary Irish poet Seamus Heaney reveals a very personal side of himself and of his identity as a writer. Although each individual poem explores its own storyline and employs its own metaphors, one common thread seems to unravel throughout...

Poetry Seamus Heaney

2630

Culpability of The Fisherman in Seamus Heaney’s "Casualty"

3 pages / 1289 words

Seamus Heaney’s “Casualty” is written as an elegy for a friend who was killed in a bombing in Northern Ireland shortly after Bloody Sunday. His friend, who was a Catholic, failed to obey a curfew set in place by the Irish Republican Army. He was...

Poetry Seamus Heaney

2631

The Famine and Irish Identity in Seamus Heaney’s "At a Potato Digging"

2 pages / 922 words

Seamus Heaney paints a picture of Ireland through his poems, at times describing its culture and at other times its politics. In poems like ‘Digging’ and ‘The Follower’ he ascribes a sense of dignity to the act of farming, comparing it to the art of...

Poetry Seamus Heaney

2632

"The Family Life" by Akhil Sharma

3 pages / 1151 words

Family Life is a semi-autobiographical novel by Akhil Sharma. This is Akhil Sharma’s second novel, which cost him years of hardship and emotional stress to write. It was published in 2014 and was released to widespread critical acclaim. The New York Times described the novel...

Family Relationships Novel

2633

A History and Haunting in The Frandsen Humanities Building

2 pages / 902 words

Towering next to Manzanita Lake in the Southwest corner of campus lies a building filled with memories, classrooms, students, and almost one hundred years of history. Originally designed and constructed by Walter O. Lewis at the beginning of 1917 as the College of Architecture, the...

Short Story

2634

A Book Review of The Old Man and The Wasteland by Nick Cole

2 pages / 859 words

The Old Man and the Wasteland is a novel by Nick Cole. This was the first publication in the series of the Westland saga, among other books in the series been Savage Boy and The Road Is a River. The book was first published on...

Book Review Novel

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Critique of "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield

2 pages / 881 words

Kathleen Mansfield Murry is known to be a prominent New Zealand Modernist short story writer who wrote stories under the pen name Katherine Mansfield. Miss Brill was published in the 1920’s and is set in post-World War I in France. In “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield...

Modernism Short Story

2636

Positive Represenattion of Women in Ulysses

3 pages / 1379 words

James Joyce’s 1922 novel, Ulysses, is a recast of one of the most formulaic and fundamental plots of the Western canon, Homer’s Odyssey. The novel is divided into eighteen episodes, which is set on the 16th of June 1904 in Dublin. Joyce fills the lengthy...

Novel Ulysses

2637

Haunted Hotels

2 pages / 810 words

There must be something special about hotels that makes people’s imagination inhabit them with ghosts, poltergeists, and other supernatural beings. We can find countless stories dedicated to this subject not only in literature and cinema, but in real life as well a lot of hotel...

Ghost Literature Review Stephen King

2638

The Concept of The Fertilizing Room in Brave New World

6 pages / 2937 words

Introduction The description of the Fertilizing Room is the first paragraph of the novel. The vivid imagery creates a futuristic atmosphere that focuses on the dependence of technology to control human life. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain...

Novel

2639

Cthulhu Monster in H.p. Lovecraft's Fiction

2 pages / 1130 words

Cthulhu is a monstrous entity created by H.P. Lovecraft, his creation was first introduced in his short story, “The Call of Cthulhu”, published in American pulp magazine, Weird Tales in 1928. Considered a Great Old One of great power that lies in a slumber mimicking...

Fiction

2640

The Passage of Time, The Concept of Loss, and Self-reflection in The Literary Works of James Merrill

3 pages / 1353 words

James Merrill boasts an immaculate portfolio of plays, essays, and his specialty, poems. Formulaic, strict works of his earlier career evolved into deep explorations of personal psyche carved from his subjective interaction with the world. In sampling Merrill’s poems, I have observed his particular enrapturement...

Book Review Poetry

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A Critique of The Samurai's Garden, a Novel by Gail Tsukiyama

3 pages / 1314 words

In the novel The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama, the author tells a story about a Chinese teenager, Stephen, who moves to a small village named Tarumi to recover from Tuberculosis. While there, he meets the housekeeper, Matsu, who cares for Stephen while he is...

Literary Criticism Novel