Literature papers

An overview of the literary achievements of Toni Morrison.

This paper examines the influences on the works of Alice Walker.

A contrast of the two main characters in "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina Garcia.

Analyzes John Keats' poem "When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be".

An analysis of the grandmothers and racism in "Everything that Rises Must Converge" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor.

A book review of "Carnal Knowledge" by T.C. Boyle

An examination of the themes of time, solitude, incest and modernity in Gabriel Garcia Marquez' book, "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

An analysis of five of Walt Whitman's poems related to the tragedy of war.

This paper explains why Antigone is the tragic hero in Sophocles' play "Antigone".

An analysis of the play "All my Sons" by Arthur Miller.

A brief look at the "One Minute" series of self help books by Spencer Johnson.

A examination of the conflicting emotions of love in Ezra Pound's poem, "A Virginal."

A look at the themes of mercy and justice in Shakespeare's
"The Merchant of Venice".

A look at the theme of love in three stories: Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog", Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", and Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House".

A discussion of the idea and application of utopias through literature.

A discussion of some of the characters who are depicted as mad in Edgar Allan Poe's stories.

An analysis of Plato's views on poetry and their relevance to "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes.

An analysis of the theme of sickness in Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein".

An analysis of the role of doubles in the book "The Annotated Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.

A review of two books - "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis and "Dracula" by Bram Stoker.

An analysis of the expression of Jungian archetypes in Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

An overview of Plato's "The Apology".

A discussion of J.M. Barrie and his "Peter Pan" stories.

A discussion of the religious symbols throughout Shakespeare's play "Hamlet".

A discussion of Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" and its emphasis on the value of traditions.

A review and analysis of the memoir "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi.

A discussion of the equal importance of ritual, symbol and myth as parts of religion.

A comparison of the theme of love in William Shakespeare's play "Othello" and Marie de France's "Laustic" and "Lanval."

A look at how the Vietnam War inflicted horrific emotional scars upon veterans and civilians.

A comparative analysis of the characters of Jane and Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's novel, "Pride and Prejudice", to the author herself.

Analyzes Jonathan Swift's 18th century poem, "The Lady's Dressing Room".

A critical analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".

A review of Kate Chopin's short story, "The Story of an Hour," from a feminist perspective.

An examination of racial identity formation through Harriet Jacobs' book, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."

Looks at the social dilemma of masculinity and femininity as reflected in literature.

An analysis of the symbolism of nature in Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein".

A comparative analysis of the theme of nature in William Blake's "The Book of Thel" and "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

A poem review of "The Call of the River Nun". by Gabriel Okara.

A review of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground".

An analysis of the theme of internalized racism in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye".

An analysis of the theme of science in Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow".

An analysis of the poem "He Fumbles at Your Soul" by Emily Dickinson.

A discussion of the urgency to marry in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".

An analysis of Robert Frost's techniques and style in his poems "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods" and "Design."

A review and analysis of George Orwell's work "Animal Farm".

A review of Mark Bowden's book, "Black Hawk Down," about the Battle of the Black Sea.

An analysis of the theme of self-discovery in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

A review of the "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.

An analysis of the theme of perfection in the novel "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells.

Compares the writings of James M. McPherson and Thomas J. Rowland about Civil War General George B. McClellan.

An analysis of Simon Ortiz's poems "Earth and Rain, the Plants and Sun" and "Vision Shadows".

A discussion of the social class and women's roles in "A White Heron" by Sarah Jewett.

Looks at the banning of books as a form of censorship in the U.S.A.

An exploration of the career and literary turning point in the life of John Grisham.

An analysis of the role of appearances in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis".

An examination of the portrayal of reality in the poem, "Dimensions," by C.K. Williams.

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

A look at society's influence on marriage through an examination of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House".

An examination of Jean de La Lafontaine's version of Aesop's fables and how he uses animals to denounce human behavior.

A review of Margaret Atwood's book, "The Handmaid's Tale".

A discussion of the human relationships in the "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James.

An analysis of the the parent-child relationship in Chinua Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair", Luigi Pirandello's "War" and Jean Arasanayagam's "All is Burning".

An analysis of the poem "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" by Galway Kinnell.

A review of the Holocaust memoir "Night" by Elie Wiesel.

An analysis of the role of fate in Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary".

A review of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"

An analysis of the themes of gender and autonomy in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre".

Investigates the theme of inventing the self in Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote".

Analyzes three poems that depict the status of women in society: Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", Dorothy Livesay's "The Three Emilys", and Michael Ondaatje's "To a Sad Daughter".

A brief review of the novel "The Painted Veil" by W. Somerset Maugham.

An analysis of Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex".

A review of the book "Plagues and People" by William H. McNeill.

A review on the novel "100 Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

An analysis of the universal messages in J. D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" and Denis Johnson's "Emergency".

An analysis of Langston Hughes' poem "Let America Be America Again".

A review of D. Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century."

A look at how Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mocking Bird" reflects the Scottsboro trials and the tensions between whites and blacks.

A discussion of the contrast between public and private personas in William Shakespeare's play, "Titus Andronicus."

An analysis of the theme of sainted corpses in Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov".

An examination of the compatibility between literary criticism and psychoanalysis.

A comparison of the strategies for navigating ontological difficulty in Patrocinio Scheickart's "Reading Ourselves: Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading" and Louis Marin's "Disneyland: A Degenerate Utopia."

A comparison of the translations of lines 2799 and 2820 in "Beowulf: A New Prose Translation" by E. Talbot Donaldson, "Beowulf: A New Verse Translation" by R.M. Liuzza, and "Beowulf: A Verse Translation" by Seamus Heavey.

An examination of philosophy and the possibility of female subjectivity in Virginia Woolf's novel, "To the Lighthouse."

A review of the book "Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds" by Joy Adamson.

A review of Noliwe Rooks' "White Money Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education".

A review of Emile Durkheim's work "Suicide".

A review of Richard Wright's work "Native Son".

A review of "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd.

A review of "Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testimony of Jim Elliot" by Elisabeth Elliot.

An analysis of two stories by Juan Rulfo; "Macario" and "Tell Them Not to Kill Me!"

An analysis of the novel "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.

A review of the children's classic "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Forbes.

A comparison of H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines" with Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King".

A comparative analysis of the ancient stories "Beowulf" and "King Arthur".

An analysis of the morality of the main character in "The Deerslayer" by James Fenimore Cooper.

A character study of Shakespeare's Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth.

An examination of naturalism in Upton Sinclair's novel, "Oil" and the effect of Paul Thomas Anderson's movie, "There Will be Blood" on the novel.

An analysis of the inability to distinguish between reality and illusion in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".

An analysis of Sophocles' Oedipean trilogy, and how these plays illustrate that humans are powerless to control their destinies.