Essays on Literary Genres

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Edith Wharton's Personal Ambitions and Anxieties

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Edith Wharton is perhaps the most preeminent female Gothic writer in all of American history. What made her career so unique, besides the fact that she was a woman in a traditionally male dominated field, was that she was not writing for money, fame, or...

Fiction Ghost

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Katherine Mansfield's Perception of Modernity in The Garden Party

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Introduction In Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden-Party,” the socioeconomically-derived false consciousness discussed by Michael Bell in “The Metaphysics of Modernism” initially blinds the protagonist Laura from viewing the world in any context outside of her household. While the story’s pivotal actions do not change Laura’s physical...

Short Story The Garden Party

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Anguish Disguise to Happiness in 'Bliss'

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Sometimes, people have a tendency to disguise their anguish with elements of happiness and constantly tell themselves that they are happy when they truly are not. Bertha Young from Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss” believed that she was truly happy in her life because she seemed to...

Short Story The Garden Party

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Personal Perspective on The Society

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Through discovering a new perspective, an individual may become able to re-evaluate the values of their world and gain a new insight into their own beliefs or morals. These discoveries are meaningful on a personal and societal level, as they facilitate change. In his poem...

Short Story The Garden Party

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Katherine Manfield's Introduction of Modernity

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The short story “The Garden Party” was penned by Katherine Mansfield, a burgeoning short story writer from New Zealand; this work of fiction was first published in 1922 in The Garden Party and Other Stories. This short story delves into modernity through innovative literary techniques,...

Short Story The Garden Party

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Mansfield's Utilization of Symbolism and Mood

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In “Miss Brill,” Katherine Mansfield uses a combination of symbolism and mood to portray an old woman’s veiled loneliness and loss of innocence. In the story, the protagonist Miss Brill maintains the quiet life of a person who is content to watch the events of...

Short Story The Garden Party

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The Transformative Effects of Discovery in The Garden Party and Meatworks

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The discoveries can be transformative for individuals as they develop new ways of viewing themselves and society; however, sometimes broadening one’s understanding can have detrimental effects. Robert Gray and Katherine Mansfield, in their writings, portray how these negative discoveries may cause the persona to reject...

Short Story The Garden Party

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Analysis of The Two Endings in The French Lieutenant's Woman

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In general, we as humans like a sense of closure in regards to literature; ambiguous endings are usually seen as an easy way out of a novel. However, in John Fowles’s novel The French Liutenant’s Woman, ambiguity does not stem from a lack of an...

Novel

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Feminist Perspective in The French Lieutenant's Woman

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The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles, written in a double narrative form alternating between the Victorian era and the present day. Currently, some literary debate surrounding the novel concerns its validity as a Feminist text. There are...

Novel

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Modernist Elements in 'The Daughters of The Late Colonel'

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During the Modern period, writers were concerned with “making it new.” People had been disillusioned, largely due to the devastation of the First World War, and they were fed up with the hypocrisy of Victorian society. People’s way of looking at themselves and society had...

Short Story

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The Role of Setting in The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

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“Life is a tragedy full of joy.” The view advanced by Bernard Malamud, while somewhat morbid, is mirrored in his life’s work. To express the futility of life in Russia, Malamud creates a setting which seems entirely removed from this century. Through his use of...

Novel

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The Theme of Birth Order in "The Fishermen"

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First acknowledged by Francis Galton in 1874, birth order remains a psychological theory within social sciences today. The theory itself states that the order of the birth of siblings establishes certain predetermined traits for each child. According to psychologist Frank Sulloway, as explained in his...

Family Relationships Novel

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Man's Loss of Humanity in Cheever's The Five-forty-eight

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John Cheever’s cynical ruminations on man’s loss of humanity in the modern world are artfully articulated in his short story “The Five-Forty-Eight” (Kennedy, 316). A brief recollection of an average man’s flight from a jilted, seemingly psychotic ex-lover in New York City to the suburbs...

Short Story

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Oral Modes of Story Telling Narratives.

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‘Life is full of riddles that only the dead can answer.’ 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 The ‘dead’ are important to Ben Okri’s The Famished Road...

Novel

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Gender, Utopia and The Divided Self in Russ' The Female Man

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Russ’ The Female Man is a key text of feminist science fiction. Writing in response to Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Russ explores “gender, Utopia and the divided self” (xii) in her convoluted narrative that spans multiple universes and hundreds of years....

Science Fiction Utopia

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Ignorance Stems from Lack of Knowledge.

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Ben Okri’s The Famished Road (1991) captures the innocent perspective of a child caught in the turmoil of Nigeria’s independence. Azaro, the young protagonist, grows up in an unnamed rural village in the midst of change [presumed to be Nigeria]. An Abiku ‘spirit child’, he...

Novel

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Unspoken Boundaries in "I Served The King of England" and "The Family of Pascual Duarte"

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The concept of an `unspoken’ boundary is one drenched in ambiguity, with any clear sense of its nature, function and effect seeming initially obscure. However, these unnoticeable boundaries still exert a strong restrictive grip on both protagonist and narrative in Bohumil Hrabal’s novel I Served...

Novel

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Chastity Virtues Towards Females.

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Introduction For a text of Elizabethan literature, Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is unique in its portrayal of chastity-a virtue generally associated with the domestic sphere-in the figure of Britomart the female warrior. Similarly unique is Britomart’s representation as an almost hermaphroditic figure: she dresses...

Poetry The Faerie Queene

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Religious and Historical Allegory in The Faerie Queene

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Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene follows its protagonist Redcrosse on a traditional hero’s journey, all of which is a religious and historical allegory for the conflicts of the church taking place during Spenser’s time. Redcrosse encounters the mysterious Duessa on his journey, a figure who...

Poetry The Faerie Queene