Essays on Literary Genres

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John Keats: One of The Staple Artists of The Romantic Era

2 pages / 927 words

The Romantic Era: An Overview The Romantic era was a movement that consisted of artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual creations that lasted from 1770 until the 1850s in most parts of Europe. This movement included works like “Fur Elise” by Ludwig Van Beethoven and “To...

John Keats Poetry Romantic Era

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Reimagination of John Keats' Love Story in The Film 'Bright Star'

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Jane Campion’s postmodernist framing of John Keats poetry in her film ‘Bright Star’ gives new understanding and awareness into Keat’s work and personal life. While the romantic era provided a background for Keats poetry, Campion reframes the romantic ideals of the creative mind as the...

John Keats Poetry

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Literary Analysis of John Keats’ Sonnet 'On Fame'

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John Keats sonnet written in April of 1819, titled ‘On Fame’, on first reading appears to be a love poem. Upon closer reading, it becomes clear that Keats is using women as a simile for the nature of fame, by contrasting the two against each...

John Keats Poetry Sonnet

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Similarities in James Joyce’s Short Stories

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James Joyce’s Dubliners is a collection of short stories that aims to portray Ireland, its people, and its issues. With the use of three short stories written by Joyce “Araby”, “Eveline” and “After the Race”, and the help of five secondary sources from Blake G.Hobby...

Dubliners James Joyce Short Story

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Realism in James Joyce's Poems 'Araby' and 'Counterparts'

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James Joyce observed that ‘in realism you get down to facts on which the world is based; that sudden reality that smashes romanticism into a pulp’. James Joyce clearly conveys this prominently in his two poems ‘Counterparts’ and ‘Araby’. Made-to-order essay as fast as you...

Araby James Joyce Poetry

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The Effects of Class and Morality in 'The Boarding House' by James Joyce

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James Joyce’s short story “The Boarding House” is a story that largely examines the nature of identity and perception. More specifically, the text examines the lack of autonomous identity as a self-defining idea in favour of a means of contextualizing oneself within society. Joyce is...

James Joyce Short Story

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Darkness in The Short Stories of James Joyce

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Introduction As readers, we pore over words and words and words. While the earliest reviewers of James Joyce’s Dubliners tended to see the work as a collection of completely unconnected short stories, more recent commentators have pointed out that there is a definite structure to...

Dubliners James Joyce Short Story

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Racism and Fear in 'If Beale Street Could Talk'

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In the novel If Beale Street Could Talk written by a world-renowned author named James Baldwin, the story begins with Clementine (Tish) bringing the news of her pregnancy to her husband Alonzo (Fonny). Tish becomes worried about his reaction to the pregnancy, and that of...

If Beale Street Could Talk Novel

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Review of 'If Beale Street Could Talk' by James Baldwin

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A remarkable grant-winning novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, which was distributed in 1974 and pursues a youthful dark couple whose lives are destroyed by a bogus criminal allegation, is a harbinger of James Baldwin’s late style. Baldwin’s abstract writing spread over the 1700s when...

Book Review If Beale Street Could Talk Novel

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A Theme of Oppression in Yaa Gyasi’s 'Homegoing'

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There are different forms of oppression in this world. Many young people now complain that they have no freedom, complain that they are too busy, and complain that there is no private space. No more time to do what you like. But when I think...

Homegoing Novel

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A Theme of Parental Relationships in 'Homegoing'

2 pages / 757 words

Set in two different continents and spanning over 250 years, Homegoing is a historical fiction novel written by Yaa Gyasi. The novel follows the stories of two families descended from half-sisters, Effia and Essi, who never meet each other. Although the families have immensely different...

Homegoing Novel

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The Theme of Identity Shown Throughout Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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As the transatlantic slave trade began, many Africans were being displaced into the Americas while some of their counterparts remained in Africa. Throughout this process, many of the people were having trouble distinguishing their identities and discovering the place they truly belonged. This was a...

Homegoing Novel

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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: The Impact of Heritage on Identity

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Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, demonstrates the oppression brought on by colonialism, imperialism, and slavery. The novel follows a family’s lineage dating back to the eighteen century. Gyasi illustrates the struggles faced by each generation in the family, which further establishes the cycle of oppression. “Homegoing...

Homegoing Novel

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Love Through Hardship in Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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Throughout Homegoing, Esi’s family line progresses in a more positive and family oriented direction through her family line juxtaposed to Effia’s African family lineage. Through suffering, discrimination, and slavery, Esi’s family lineage learned to build off one another and to try to give their child...

Fiction Homegoing Novel

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A Review of The Book 'Homegoing' by Yaa Gyasi

1 page / 590 words

Imagine being stripped away from home, forced to do something you didn’t want to do, not being able to carve your own path in life. This was the case for Esi and Effia two half-sisters both from Ghana but have never met. One captured into...

Book Review Homegoing Novel

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The Role and Treatment of Women in 'Homegoing'

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In the abnormally structured text Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, there are different forms of unequal treatment explored. The primary form of derogatory treatment exposed in the novel is racial inequality, however, we see throughout every single chapter a situation where this racial inequality mixes with...

Homegoing Novel

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Alienated Self in Anita Desai’s 'Fire on The Mountain'

4 pages / 1925 words

Anita Desai’s unquestionable existential concern helped her to create an epitome aura, with a chiseled style, she got differentiated her from other novelists of the younger generation, she is the only novelist who shows some sort of similarity to Arun Joshi. But still Arun Joshi...

Fire on the Mountain Novel

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Tragedy in 'Fire on The Mountain' by Anita Desai

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Anita Desai’s “Fire on the Mountain” presents a masterful narrative that intricately interweaves elements of Greek tragedy with the complex lives of its characters. Through the lens of Nanda Kaul, her great granddaughter Raka, and their interactions with society and nature, Desai crafts a story...

Fire on the Mountain Tragedy

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The Impact of Childhood Experiences on Protagonist’s Identity in 'Coraline'

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Neil Gaiman’s books feature young protagonists who are not like other ‘normal’ kids of their age. The protagonists are precocious, naturally curious to explore. Neil Gaiman’s books have a fairy tale aspect combined with dark themes and follow a similar pattern. In Neil Gaiman’s book...

Coraline Fantasy