Literature papers

A review and comparison of Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills' and Augusta Evans Wilson's "St. Elmo".

A review of Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken".

This paper discusses the perils and rewards of non conformity in the book 'October Sky' by Homer Hickman.

This paper describes the Greek god Hermes, or as the Romans call him Mercury, as presented in Apollodorus' writings and in Homer's "The Iliad" and "Hymn IV".

This paper discusses "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin.

This paper discusses "A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley, a re-vision of Shakespeare's "King Lear".

This paper explains that Nicholas Sparks' novel "Message in a Bottle" is a story about the destructive and regenerating powers of love.

This paper examines the short story "Soldiers Home" by Ernest Hemingway.

A discussion of the philosophical text "The Inward Morning" by Henry Greenwood Bugbee.

A research proposal for examining the effects of a handicap on character development in modern fiction.

This paper analyzes the book "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane.

A review of conflict in the tales "Gryphon" by Charles Baxter, "The Use Of Force" by William Carlos Williams and "A Small, Good Thing" by Raymond Carver.

An analysis of the books "Kidnapped" by Robert Lewis Stevenson, "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque and "Dynamics of Faith" by Paul Tillich.

This paper describes the characters of an older country priest and a young girl nineteen years old in the novel "News for the Church" by Frank O'Connor.

This paper discusses Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May be Your Own".

This paper examines Edgar Allan Poe's style of writing, with a focus on "The Black Cat" and "The Masque of the Red Death".

This paper discusses David McCullough's book "1776" about the American Revolution.

This paper discusses the use of satire in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

This paper discusses the novel, 'The House on Mango Street' by Sandra Cisneros.

An analysis of the themes of death and justice in "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe.

This paper analyzes the play "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.

This paper compares Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" with Bernard Malamud's "The Tenants" and examines how the novels depict racial and ethnic issues.

This paper reviews the book "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison.

A comparative analysis of the characters of Eliza Doolittle, from George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and Medea, from Euripides' play, "Medea".

A discussion of Tim O'Brien's short story "The Things They Carried."

This paper reviews the book 'The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion' by Stephen B. Oates.

This paper analyzes the novel 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelly.

This paper provides an analysis of the difference between the new historicist viewpoints on Renaissance drama and the cultural materialist viewpoints.

An analysis of the moral decline in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest."

An analysis and comparison of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Jane Austen's "Emma" and Chaim Potok's "My Name is Asher Lev".

A review of the novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

An overview of the influence of the patronage system on English Renaissance writers.

This paper discusses Tim O'Brien's "The Things We Carried" and Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief."

This paper looks at "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen and Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto as symbolic of the society of the Romantic Period.

This paper analyzes "Blue Winds Dancing" by Tom Whitecloud.

An analysis of the moral of the novel, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley.

This paper analyzes the novel 'The Big Sleep' by Raymond Chandler.

This paper is a research proposal to study the stories, especially children's tales, of the endangered Yupik Eskimo language.

This paper discusses Toni Morrison's book "The Bluest Eye."

A discussion on James Baldwin's use of music in his short story, "Sonny's Blues".

An analysis of the symbolism and the plot contained in Tim O'Brien's short story, "The Things They Carried."

This paper analyzes the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London.

This paper analyzes and suggests appropriate treatment in the case of Susana Kaysen, a real person who wrote the memoir "Girl, Interrupted", which was made into a motion picture.

A review of the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost.

This paper discusses the symbol of the hall in the epic poem "Beowulf".

An analysis of the values of the people at the time of the Flood, as related in the "Epic of Gilgamesh".

A review of Alfred Crosby's work "America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918".

An analysis of the meaning behind the battle with the Bull of Heaven in Tablet VI of the "Epic of Gilgamesh".

An analysis of the motivation of Iago in William Shakespeare's "Othello" and Krogstad in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House."

An analysis of the narratives of African-American women in "Let Nobody Turn Us Around," edited by Marable Manning and Leith Mullings.

This paper analyzes the violence in Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five - Or the Children's Crusade", one of the most widely known works in modern American literature.

This paper discusses Paul Celan's poem "Todesfuge".

This paper analyzes Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", one of the most frequently reviewed plays in academic studies.

This paper discusses Franz Kafka's work "A Hunger Artist".

This paper analyzes "Tender Is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

This paper discusses inner and outer morality in Plato's 'Republic'.

This paper explores the lessons portrayed in "The Book of Job" translated by Stephen Mitchell.

An interpretation of "Hansel and Gretel" as a portrayal of traditional gender role models.

This paper examines "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell.

A review and discussion regarding corporate organizations.

This paper compares and analyzes the two books "The Park and the People: A History of Central Park" by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar and "Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West" by William Cronon.

An analysis of love and separateness found in "The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Melamud, "Maria Concepcion" by Katherine Ann Porter and "Feathers" by Raymond Carver.

An analysis of the levels of understanding of "A Hunger Artist," written by Franz Kafka.

An analysis of the character of Jing Mei Woo in the novel, "The Joy Luck Club," written by Amy Tan.

An analysis of the Gothic motifs present in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Christabel."

This paper discusses the characteristics and complexity of American literature.

A review of Thomas E. Schmidt's book 'Straight and Narrow?'.

A review of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway.

An analysis of race and racism in the book "Devil in a Blue Dress," written by Walter Mosley.

A review of biology as a cross-interdisciplinary study.

A review of the book "Globalization Unplugged: Sovereignty and the Canadian State in the Twenty-First Century" by Peter Urmetze.

A discussion of romanticism, explaining that it is the artistic movement that appeared as a reaction against the rationalism,.

A review of Jaroslav Pelikan's book, "Jesus through the Centuries".

An analysis of Hamlet's love for Ophelia in the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.

An analysis of the writing style of the author Tom Clancy.

This paper compares similar themes in three modern Russian novels: Isaac Babel's "Red Cavalry", Yuri Olesha's "Envy" and Vaarlam Shalamov's "Kolyma Tales".

An analysis of whether the main character in Richard Wright's book, "The Man Who was Almost a Man," experienced a Joycean epiphany during the plot of the novel.

A review of Ana Castillo's novel "So Far From God".

This paper discusses the aspects of morality as demonstrated by Sir Gawain in the poetic narrative of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'.

A discussion of "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros.

This paper analyzes 2 Timothy 4:2 from the King James Bible.

This paper discusses the book "The Setting Sun" by Osamu Dazai.

This paper analyzes the the concept of naturalism in the book 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin.

This paper analyzes the book "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon.

An analysis of the theme of feminism in Arthur Conan Doyle's two stories, "Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Adventure of the Yellow Face".

This paper discusses the Oracle of Delphi of ancient Greece, including the important aspects of the cultural experience that took place at Delphi.

This paper studies Aristotle's views on virtue and ethics.

A comparative analysis of "Metamorphoses" by Ovid and the Book of Genesis in the Bible.

This paper analyzes the book 'Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold' by C.S. Lewis.

An analysis of Plato's changing views on private property ownership.

This paper discusses the article, "Othering: Toward an Understanding of Difference" by M.K. Canales.

A review, discussion and comparison of 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe and 'Medea' by Euripides.

A discussion of "An Estate of Memory" by Illona Karmel and "Beloved" by Toni Morrison.

A Look at the discrepancy between the commercial success of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and its negative reviews.

An analysis of the methods used by Jane Austen to develop the character of Emma Woodhouse in her book, "Emma."

This paper compares the writings of Renaissance Italians Niccolo Machiavelli in "The Prince" and Baldesar Castiglione in "The Courtier".

This paper contrasts four different historical texts: Donald Spivey's "Schooling for a New Slavery", Ellen Schrecker's "The Age of McCarthyism", John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Great Crash of 1929" and Charles Fishman's "The Wal-Mart Effect".

A review of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.

This paper discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novella "The Yellow Wallpaper", a canonical book of feminist literature.