Category: Literature
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Norman Krasna’s Play “Dear Ruth” Review
Current essay deals with analysis of Norman Krasna’s play named Dear Ruth which is the classics of modern American drama. Research purposes we pose are not about revealing plays structure or its comprehensive description. Instead, this argumentative essay seeks to outline the contours of the main theme that can be found in Dear Ruth and…
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“Pale Fire” and “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov: Examples of Metafiction
Metafiction as a writing style evolved in the USA in the 1960s and became the flag-bearer of postmodernism. This marked by authors who went beyond the traditional fiction and experimented with the process in which fiction itself was created. The main aim of such fiction was to describe the culture from which it evolved. Thus,…
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Overview of World Literature
Most authors define Imperialism in political terms. Few texts however define imperialism beyond politics. In Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Sign of the Four” and Anne McClintock‘s “The Lay of the Land: Genealogies of Imperialism” imperialism is defined in terms of femininity. The female is portrayed as imperial and dominating. She wields extreme power over the…
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Thomas Hardy’ Literature: Portraits of Country Life
Table of Contents Introduction How Thomas Hardy’s Work Impacted His Age Before Work Impact The Impact on Thomas Hardy’s Major Works and Writing Style After Effects Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The life of Thomas Hardy can not be comparable to his stories. Thomas Hardy was an English poet and novel writer born in England. Hardy’s…
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The Polarity of Cleanliness and Filth
Table of Contents Introduction Presentations of Cleanliness, Filth, and the Connection to Color in Text Conclusion Works Cited Introduction In the books, Morrison addresses questions about the role and place of women in the world and attempts to deconstruct the traditional image of the black female that has emerged in the literature. All of her…
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Slavic Literature. Tolstoy’s Childhood and Narrative
Table of Contents His Works Tolstoy’s Childhood Works Cited Isaak Babel once said about Tolstoy: “if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.” Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Lev Nikolayevich was a Russian author, essayist, dramatist, and philosopher as well as a pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. Count Leo Tolstoy was baptized…
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Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata”: The Sexual Content of Lysistrata
The theme of sexual relations between a man and a woman has been an integral part of imaginative literature. Since sexual intercourse is a ticklish question, the attitude towards literary works with sexual content has been diverse and contradicting. Kahane and Cavender mentioned books with sexual content as a favorite target of censorship (342). They…
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Myths: a Very Big Impact in the Lives of Human Beings
Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion Works cited Introduction Myths are known to have a very big impact in the lives of human beings and they are present in the modern society that we live in. Joseph Campbell talks about how myths came into existence. In his book The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell talks…
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“Celia, a Slave” by Melton McLaurin
Table of Contents Introduction Main body Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Laws are put in place to protect people from injustice, to encourage fairness in society and to prevent anomie in a society. In Melton McLaurin’s book Celia, A Slave, the case failed to provide her with the fairness of which it advocates with the selective…
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“Death Be Not Proud” and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
Table of Contents “Death Be Not Proud” and “Because I Could Not Stop”: Literary Devices “Death Be Not Proud” and “Because I Could Not Stop”: Attitude & Tone Portray of Death Conclusion Works Cited One of the strongest and captivating issues about poetry is the ability to describe the same themes in many different and…