Essays on Literary Genres

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Racial Dictation for Sexual Desire in "M Butterfly"

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In both society and literature, fetishes and sexual fantasies constantly find themselves rooted in racial differences. The philosophical concept of the “other” is one that addresses the idea of fetishization, in that we find ourselves idealizing and fantasizing about that which we are not; that...

Fantasy Literature Review Reader

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An Analysis of Love Medicine’s "Lulu"

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Lulu Nanapush Lamartine is a symbolic and admirable Chippewa Woman in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine. As a Native Woman character, Lulu reclaims and redefines space that is usually taken up by unfair stereotypes by using her shameless beauty and compassionate sexuality. Margaret Galloway argues that...

Character Fiction Love Medicine

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Flow of a River and People on The Riverbed

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Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine intricately explores the interplay between time, religion, and Native American identity through the powerful symbolism of water and rivers. This imagery serves as a profound reflection on the erosion of culture and the impact of modern American society on Native...

Fiction Love Medicine

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The Concept of Home in Love Medicine

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“‘Nothing?’ said Mama piercingly, ‘Nothing to come home to?’ She gave me a short glance full of meaning. I had, after all, come home, even husbandless, childless, driving a fall-apart car” (Erdrich, 13). Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized...

Fiction Love Medicine

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Myth and Identity in "Love and Vertigo"

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“These are the myths I tell about my family and, like all myths, they are both truths and lies, simultaneous buffers of love and betrayals of trust.” (Hsu-Ming Teo 1) Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to...

Novel Personal Identity Reality

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The Role of The Self in The Works of Byron and Keats

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The primary source of feeling comes from within the Self. At least, this is what Lord Byron’s Manfred and “Lara: Canto the First” and Keats’ “Four Seasons Fill the Measure of the Year”, tell us. The implications of this are that once the internal Self...

Poetry

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Man and The Natural World

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Byron’s “The Prisoner of Chillon”[1], a dramatic monologue narrated by a prisoner, Francois de Bonnivard, was written immediately after the poet’s famous sailing expedition on Lake Geneva with Percy Shelley. When visiting the thirteenth-century Castle of Chillon, Byron must have heard of and felt a...

Poetry

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Rationality to Economic and Social Problems

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Humanity constantly seeks change to improve itself, be it through economic restructuring, political reforms, or educational agendas. When a collection of these changes towards progress mesh nicely together, while possessing a common, encompassing goal, an author is able to construct his or her version of...

Fantastic

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Attraction and Desire in Byron's "She Walks in Beauty"

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Lord Byron’s ‘She Walks in Beauty’ was inspired by Mrs Wilmot, his cousin, Robert Wilmot’s wife. Byron’s glimpse of Mrs Wilmot, as well as the environment that surrounded them, contributed to the images of darkness in ‘She Walks in Beauty,’ from the mourning clothes she...

Poetry

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Pleased at Others Discomfort and Woes

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Introduction Edward Bellamy, in his novel Looking Backward, delineates a futuristic utopia set in the twentieth century in which humanity lives in a much more collaborative and unified manner. No longer do such concepts as currency or laws exist, while the motivation to pilfer or...

Fantastic

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The Theme of Redemption in Manfred by Lord Byron

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Manfred, in the dramatic poem of the same name, written by Lord Byron, is a character that possesses many flaws. As Manfred mourns the loss of his beloved sister, it is revealed that their incestuous relationship was deemed illegal by and disgusted their society. As...

Poetry

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Battle Between Good and Evil in The Destruction of Semnacherib

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In The Destruction of Semnacherib, Byron uses different types of imagery to illustrate contradictory feelings about victory in war. In this poem, the complete demolition of the Assyrian people is described in both a horrific and peaceful way, demonstrating how success in war is always...

Poetry

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Literary Critisism of Joseph Conrad's Novel Lord Jim

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Despite the popular conception that Joseph Conrad’s novel, Lord Jim, is merely a fanciful tale about sea-faring adventurers, this carefully crafted novel reaches far beyond its oceanic setting. Conrad’s tale is a bittersweet portrayal of the romantic idealist, which dives into the complex and oftentimes...

Joseph Conrad Literary Criticism Novel

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Postmodern Spirituality and The Culture of Individualism

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The Romantic Era was a period in which poets and intellectuals challenged the emphasis on reason and science espoused by the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. Lord Byron, or George Gordon Byron, was a leading romantic poet who lived during the nineteenth century and was...

Poetry

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Love and Family in Little Women

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According to Nina Baym, the heroine of woman’s fiction “brings into being a new kind of family life, organized around love rather than money. Money subsides into its adjunct function of ensuring domestic comfort” (39-40). Little Women is the epitome of this idea, and the...

Little Women Novel

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Weakness Succumbs Authority and The Expectations

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Martin Amis’ London Fields depicts a non-traditional murder story which Samson Young, the narrator, seeks to transcribe. On a quest to find her murderer as part of a suicidal death wish, Nicola Six forms relationships with Keith Talent and Guy Clinch, two candidates she believes...

Novel

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Life in The West World: Lonesome Dove by Larry Mcmartry

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Most novelists do not kill off half of the characters in their book to prove a point, but this one does. The tragic, bloody deaths in the novel only enforce the fact that the West was wild and could not be conquered by any one...

Character Novel Western Culture

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The Dangers of Succumbing to Societal Roles in Alice Munro's Short Stories

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The myth of “happily ever after” has pervaded Western culture for centuries. Nearly all of our fairy tales and bedtime stories conclude with the hero and his beautiful bride riding off into the sunset. Because of these stories, the idea that marriage is the final...

Short Story

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Living Poor Life Leads to Evils Deeds to Survive

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In Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills, the vignette of Ruth and Norman’s lives on Wayne Avenue serves as a stark contrast to the tales of the inhabitants dwelling in the adjacent, more affluent neighborhood of Linden Hills. Naylor uses this couple to illustrate that, despite their...

Novel