Essays on Literary Genres

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Modern Romance: Reading "Queen Anne’s Lace"

2 pages / 1041 words

In the early 1900s, a woman’s purity was viewed as her most important aspect. So much so that it effected society’s perception of her personality and subsequent treatment of her. It often was a deciding factor in marriage arrangements. In fact, if a woman had...

Poetry

2700

"My English Grandmother" Still Lives: Tone, Perspective, and Emotional Progression

3 pages / 1205 words

William Carlos Williams’s poem “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” departs from traditional elegies in many ways. The composition does not follow elegiac meter or structure, though normally a poem with elegiac meter should consist of four iambs and have elegiac couplets. (For its...

Poetry

2701

The Performance of Religious Language in The Eighteenth-century Conversion Narrative

4 pages / 1961 words

In his writing on the physiology of reading in Restoration England, Adrian Johns recalls a story concerning the natural philosopher Robert Boyle. Finding himself with a ‘tertian ague’ whilst at school, Boyle was encouraged to divert his melancholy by reading romances, which far from curing...

Poetry

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Interwoven Romantic Messages in Bryant's "A Winter Piece"

4 pages / 1650 words

Representing a powerful reaction against Puritanism, an English Protestant literary movement based upon the rigid and logical belief in a God is ready and willing to Punish his followers, Romanticism challenged virtually all major Puritanical beliefs. The newfound trust in the human imagination, free will...

Poetry

2703

Morally Right Vslogically Correct in "Travelling Through The Dark"

3 pages / 1367 words

Encountering a dead deer on the road is not an unusual occurrence; oncoming drivers see the road block and handle the situation accordingly. Some drivers will swerve to miss the animal — it is safe to say that most drivers will swerve — but a...

Poetry

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A Close Textual Analysis of William Carlos William’s ‘the Widow’s Lament in Springtime’

2 pages / 1068 words

In his poem, ‘The Widow’s Lament to Summer’, William Carlos Williams explores themes of mortality, the fleeting beauty of life and emotional attachment through the perspective of a recently widowed woman. Through limited descriptive techniques and reversed associations and metaphor, Williams presents an ironic and...

Poetry

2705

Cara as an Unreliable Narrtor in Wieland

2 pages / 828 words

As the narrator of Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, Clara is unreliable. The fantastic events she recounts are unbelievable and unexplained, leading readers to question the validity of her tale. For example, she introduces the theory of empiricism, which claims that all humans are born with...

Gothic Fiction Narrator Novel

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The Role of Family in Wieland and The Last of The Mohicans

3 pages / 1204 words

“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.” Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay...

Gothic Fiction Last of The Mohicans Novel

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Social Order in Wieland and Charlotte Temple

2 pages / 854 words

The advent of democracy in America brought with it a slue of worries and concerns held by the newly independent colonists. Some felt like the lost, orphaned children of Great Britain while others pondered the uncertain future of the new nation. One of the gravest...

Gothic Fiction Novel

2708

White Flight: The Graying of Suburbia in Delillo’s White Noise

6 pages / 2811 words

In addition to addressing the premonitory electricity of death, the title of Don DeLillo’s White Noise alludes to another, subtler, sort of white noise the muted death of suburban white identity. College-on-the-Hill is not only an elite academic promontory, but also a bastion for white...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Originality and The Literary ‘readymade’ in Don Delillo’s White Noise

5 pages / 2079 words

‘Toyota Celica / A long moment passed before I realized this was the name of an automobile…The utterance was beautiful and mysterious, gold-shot with looming wonder. It was like the name of an ancient power in the sky.’ Made-to-order essay as fast as you need...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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The Postmodern World of White Noise

4 pages / 2003 words

Paula Geyh writes that “the term [postmodernism] is used by so many people in so many disparate ways, that it seems almost to mean or describe everything–and therefore, some of the critics of postmodernism would say, it means nothing” (1-2). Although the postmodern perspective is,...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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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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Liberal Individualism and Simulation in Wieland

3 pages / 1466 words

Throughout Wieland the text circles around the possibility of social, and therefore national, progress during the period following the American Revolution. The eventual answers the text might provide are ambiguous and certainly outside the scope of this essay. However, one specific passage that contributes significantly...

Gothic Fiction Novel

2714

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