Essays on Literary Genres

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"A Man Called Horse" as Transgression of The Western Genre

3 pages / 1418 words

Dorothy M. Johnson’s short story “A Man Called Horse” transgresses some of the conventions of the classical Western genre. In this sense, Johnson’s text can be read as a “revisionist Western”, in so far as Johnson does not merely adhere to the dominant norms and...

Short Story The West

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Stigma of Dependence: Character Analysis in Three Recent Novels

6 pages / 2566 words

In recent years, the age of maturity in Western cultures has been pushed higher and higher as more education becomes necessary to pursue job opportunities. Crashing economies increasingly force children to rely on their parents after graduation. Despite the practical necessity of taking a few...

Character Literature Review Novel

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A Lost Ideal: Perspective in Willa Cather’s a Lost Lady

4 pages / 1900 words

Willa Cather has artistically crafted the ending of A Lost Lady so that Marian Forrester comes out a survivor rather than a lost lady as the title suggests. This use of irony is very important because it opens up questions about the nature of the...

Novel

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The Theme of The "Outsider" in a Month in The Country

2 pages / 896 words

Written by J.L Carr, A Month in the Country focuses on the story of Tom Birkin; a veteran of World War I who, after his wife leaves him, takes a job to restore a medieval painting in the church of a small village in Yorkshire...

Fiction

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Loss of Innocence in "Lost Lady" by Willa Carther

3 pages / 1453 words

The preciousness of life is something that can often be forgotten. Things come and go, seasons change, and in a modernistic culture the day can shift beneath our feet in a moment’s notice. In this modernizing world, the real question that comes about is what...

Novel

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Plot Structure Comparison: a Pale View of Hills and Waiting for The Barbarians

3 pages / 1340 words

Plot structure in any novel is an important literary technique that can differ greatly from one novel to another. While the actual story tells the reader the events that happen to the characters, the plot is the technique used to form a time line for...

Novel Waiting For The Barbarians

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Lermontov’s Paradox: an Analysis of Pechorin

2 pages / 903 words

In Mikhail Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time, the author brings out the irony surrounding various characters with Pechorin being at the center stage. The portrayal of Pechorin is viewed in the book as an exemplary Byronic anti-hero and Lermontov describes him as a...

Book Review Irony Novel

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The Connection Between Art and History for Julian Barnes

5 pages / 2050 words

The connection between history and art is similar to the law of Causality in physics, otherwise known as the “cause and effect” law. As history progressed through multiple ages, fashions, and mentalities, so did artistic styles and tendencies. Art is important to the historic field...

Short Story

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Who is Pechorin: Ambiguity and Unreliability in a Hero of Our Time

3 pages / 1348 words

The novel A Hero of our Time is a Russian novel about the life of a soldier named Pechorin serving in the Caucasus, written by Mikhail Lermontov and translated in one of its most famous versions by Vladimir and Dmitri Nabokov. Throughout his novel, Lermontov’s...

Literature Review Novel Vladimir Nabokov

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Defoe’s a Journal of The Plague Year: an Examination of The Effects of Apocalyptic Disease on Humanity

6 pages / 2547 words

Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year gives the modern reader insight into the tense atmosphere of disease-infested urban London. However, the most important insights we gain from H.F.’s narrative are his observations on human behaviour, ones that can be applied universally to those...

Novel

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Class Distinctions in a Journal of The Plague Year

2 pages / 1025 words

Class Distinctions in A Journal of the Plague Year 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 Defoe repeatedly returns to how different classes experienced the plague of 1660’s...

Novel

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Augusta Webster and The Universal Poet

5 pages / 2059 words

In the essay “Poets and Personal Pronouns,” Augusta Webster discusses the amount of personal expression that a poet inserts into his or her own work. She delves into the differences between a novelist and poet and elaborates on the importance of creative imagination; she even...

Poetry

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Constructing Authenticity in Daniel Defoe's a Journal of The Plague Year

3 pages / 1257 words

In A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe uses several methods to create convincing history out of fiction. In developing a false journal entry, Defoe creates authenticity primarily through the narrator, H.F.. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized...

Novel

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The Plague Diaries of Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe: a Historical Overview

9 pages / 4299 words

Autobiography has often been a response to moments of historical crisis. Diaries such as those of Anne Frank who wrote about the hardships of living in Nazi Germany as a Jew, the Bronte Sisters who wrote of the era in which they lived, and Nelson...

Novel

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Dave Eggers’ a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: The Game of Pain

3 pages / 1169 words

Dave Eggers is a playful author, wiling to experiment and take risks for his audience. At the same time, Eggers is aware of his ploys and sometimes uses these games as a way to pawn off the tragedies that happened to him over the course...

Tragedy

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Understanding Freedom in a House for Mr. Biswas

3 pages / 1395 words

A House for Mr. Biswas, written by V.S. Naipaul, is an epic that tells the story of Mohun Biswas, a poor boy believed to be a bad omen from birth, and his life in Trinidad. The life of Mr. Biswas is presented in the form...

Fiction Freedom

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The Role of Stereotypes in a Confederacy of Dunces

3 pages / 1233 words

In his novel A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole casts Burma Jones in a stereotypical role in society. By hiding Jones’ face behind space-age sunglasses and a cloud of smoke, Toole maintains Jones’ ambiguity while gradually diverging from his stereotype. During Jones’ employment at...

Novel

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Manhood in a Gathering of Old Men

4 pages / 1707 words

Manhood in A Gathering of Old Men In his novel, A Gathering of Old Men (1983), Ernest J. Gaines writes about a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The plantation’s white, Cajun work boss is shot and seventeen old black men and one white woman...

Literature Review Novel

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Erasure in Change-rae Lee’s "A Gesture Life"

2 pages / 1112 words

Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life tells the story of a man of slippery character. Known by his neighbors as “Doc,” Franklin Hata is a friendly face around town, always maintaining a respectful, purposeful distance. He assimilates with the people of Bedley Run quietly and gracefully,...

Literature Review Novel