The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
The Bluest Eye was written by Toni Morrison. It is the first of her novels and contains a number of autobiographical elements. The story is set in the town called Lorain. This was the town in which Morrison had earned her early childhood. It is a story which is told from the point of view of a...
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison - publié le 27/09/2006
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
The Bluest Eye contains a number of autobiographical elements. It is set in the town where Morrison grew up (Lorain), and it is told from the point of view of a nine-year-old girl, the age Morrison would have been the year the novel takes place (1941). Like the MacTeer family, Morrison's family...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, first published in 1865
Essay - 25 pages - Literature
In 1843, the Reverend Charles Dodgson was asked to minister the parish of Croft on Tees in North Yorkshire. The family of Reverend Charles relocated along with him to North Yorkshire. The relocation proved fruitful and happiness swelled their way when a new entrant to the family was announced....
Lewis, Fort Mandan, April 7, 1805 : The Lewis and Clark expedition
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
This text, written by Captain Meriwether Lewis at Fort Mandan on April 7th, 1805, may be regarded as one of the main turning points of the expedition. Indeed, the long and harsh winter they endured when they could not move on westward to the Missouri River since it was blocked with ice and when...
The Nineteenth Century's Middle Ages: Representation of the Middle Ages through nineteenth century novels or arts - publié le 18/08/2006
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres (1913), by Henry Adams, is a study of the 13th century unity with descriptions about the medieval world. In this book, Henry Adams depicts several well-known monuments and old sights of France, all of which were built during the middle Ages. Published in 1913, this...
The Nineteenth Century's Middle Ages: Representation of the Middle Ages through nineteenth century novels or arts
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Henry Adams, Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres (1913). In Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams depicts several well-known monuments and old sights of France, all of which were built during the Middle Ages. In this book, published in 1913, Adams comments on those monuments as he is looking...
The War (Marguerite Duras)
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Marguerite Duras was born near Saigon in Indochina in 1914. Her parents went to the French colony as teachers. She left Indonesia in 1932 to study political science and law in Paris. His childhood in Indonesia had a great impact on Duras and brought unity to her work. As she was living in Paris...
With close reference to any two poems on this course, critically discuss different conceptions of American-ness - publié le 20/07/2006
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
One may find a great variety of themes in American poetry, irrespective of the period one is interested in. There are numerous poems about love, war, the self, nature, reality and dreams. However the point common to all of them, is that they convey a sense of "Americanism?; that is, they can all...
With close reference to any two poems on this course, critically discuss different conceptions of American-ness
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
One can find a great variety of themes in American poetry, whatever the period one is interested in: poems about love or about war, about the self or about nature, about reality or about dreams. But the common point of all these is that they convey a sense of American-ness - that is, they can all...
The double personality in Edgar Allan Poe's tales: William Wilson and The Cask of Amontillado - publié le 20/07/2006
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
It is common knowledge that the stories of Edgar Allan Poe often reflect some of his own personal problems. His works, ?William Wilson' and ?The Cask of Amontillado' are usually classified under the label "tales of the double (or evil) personality". They reflect one of the strangest...
The double personality in Edgar Allan Poe's tales: William Wilson and The Cask of Amontillado
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Edgar Allan Poe's stories often reflect some of his own personal problems. William Wilson and The Cask of Amontillado are usually classified with the label “tales of the double (or evil) personality”. They reflect one of the strangest aspects of Poe's life. He actually had a blurred...
Lyrical ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge or the birth of a new literary movement during the Industrial Revolution
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Industrialism, expansion, profit, production and individualism were the feelings which took place during the period of the Industrial Revolution in England. People in Great Britain were led by the streams of progress, but the modernizations in technology had some important consequences on people:...
Structure and texture in the "Good Soldier" by Ford Madox Ford
Dissertation - 11 pages - Literature
The Good Soldier is a novel written in 1914 by Ford Madox Ford and published in March 1915. This novel is considered as the best book of pre-war period. It is also considered as a modernist work, and in fact, many modernist innovations, as well as impressionist ones, are present throughout the...
Ways of Rendering Student Slang in Salinger Novel "The Catcher in the Rye"
Dissertation - 48 pages - Literature
Slang, as the most mentioned representative word form of the informal vocabulary, occupies a prominent role in contemporary society. It has become the second language of any democratic country. Everybody uses it even if one pretends that he has never used it. It is a veritable issue and it will...
Oscar Wilde and Aestheticism
Essay - 9 pages - Literature
The 19th Century in Europe, specially in England, is marked by the appearances of new artistic movements. Aestheticism is most important because it embodies a real change in the mentality and in art, and is considered as self sufficient. Immanuel Kant is one of the pioneers of it, and certainly...
Soviet Literature: A clearly defined and a Poor quality Literature? Literary policies and their consequences on Soviet Literature, and perceptions of this one
Essay - 16 pages - Literature
The Soviet Communist ideology which has ruled everything in the Soviet Union for decades was based on Marx's ideas, concepts as Dialectical Materialism. In this theory the world was in perpetual process of change, this through a dialectical movement which was made of conflict between the...
Commentary on an extract from O. Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" chapter 2
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
This passage takes place in the middle of chapter II, in which Lord Henry has just been introduced for the first time to Dorian by his friend Basil. During this scene of first encounter Lord Henry made an impressive philosophic speech about one's self and soul, moral influence, virtues and sins,...
The Da Vinci Code : a successful but controversial politico-religious thriller
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
The Da Vinci Code is a very successful politico-religious thriller. The novel was published in the United States in March 2003 and in France a year later. This novel has also been translated in more than 40 languages, which is a proof of the worldwide success of this thriller. The author, Dan...
The image of the Pig in "Butcher Boy" by Patrick McCabe
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
What are the meanings of the image of the pig and what different ideas does it enable to support and to highlight ? Besides, how does the main character react to this image and what impact does it have on him ? After reminding the classical meanings expressed by the image of the pig, I will study...
The Great Gatsby, by F.S Fitzgerald (1925)
Book review - 9 pages - Literature
T. Elliott, writer and critic, referred to The Great Gatsby, as the novel was first published in 1925, as “the first step that American fiction [had] taken since Henry James”. Since this date, critics agree to emphasize it as a the most accomplished and mature book ever written by...
Old and new worlds : What is Montaigne saying about the West in On Cannibals ?
Worksheets - 6 pages - Literature
Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne, was born in 1533, the son of a successful fish merchant. After an education focusing on Latin (he spoke it as a native), he studied law at Toulouse. He had made a career as a provincial magistrate. He travelled one year in Germany and Italy, and was mayor of...
The ending of Hamlet : a reconciliation with life ?
Worksheets - 3 pages - Literature
Act I to Act III in the famous play ?Hamlet' goes on to describe the compromised mental state of Hamlet where he contemplates committing suicide because his life has become unbearable. The last act, however, brings a resolution to the play that leaves the audience wondering if Hamlet is still...
