Literature papers

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.

A discussion of the influences on Greek mythology and what these myths teach us about history.

An examination of the characteristics of African-American literature and it canonization.

A discussion of the poet John Keats as a key figure in English Romanticism.

A discussion of the importance of Stephen Crane's explanations of war in his novel, "The Red Badge of Courage."

An analysis and comparison of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories "The Black Cat", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and "The Cask of Amontillado".

An analysis of the decisions of the young male characters in "On the Rainy River" by Tim O'Brien and "The A & P" by John Updike.

An analysis of the themes of freedom, individuality and totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and George Orwell's "1984".

A review of Dr. Seuss' book "The Lorax".

A look at the themes of nature and love in Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee," William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" and Richard Burns' "A Red, Red Rose."

An examination of the style and the portrayal of the character of G.H. in Clarice Lispector's novel, "The Passion According to G.H."

A look at U.S history before 1865 through the review of David M. Pletcher's work, "The Diplomacy of Annexation: Texas, Oregon and the Mexican War".

An analysis of the theme of love in William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116".

A look at the role of Lady Macbeth in Macbeth's ascension to the throne in William Shakespeare's play "MacBeth".

A review and analysis of "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" by Max Weber.

A review and analysis of Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men".

An analysis of the significance of gender in the relationships in "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.

An analysis of the limits of human empathy in H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds", William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".

Presents a psychoanalytic approach to understanding Edgar Allan Poe's
short story "The Fall of the House of Usher".

Compares and contrasts communism and capitalism as depicted in Ursula LeGuin's "The Dispossessed."

An analysis of the significance of the poem "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden.

This paper describes how Flannery O'Connor utilizes irony and characterization in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" to illustrate the frailty of the human condition.

An exploration of Victorian detective genre in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A look at the stresses of being a mother through Tillie Olsen's story, "I Stand Here Ironing."

Explores the category "demon" in the Greco-Roman world.

This paper discusses an excerpt from Mike Davis' book, "City of Quartz" titled "Fortress Los Angeles".

Discusses the effect of trust in Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey".

The paper discusses the book called "The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson and examines the relationship between race and class in America during the early 1900s.

An analysis of the effects of Romeo and Juliet's actions in "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare.

A discussion on the use of double identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson"

An analysis of Robert Frost's powerful use of figurative language in his poem, "Birches."

A discussion of the misfortune and miscommunication in Robert Frost's poem "Home Burial".

An analysis of Etheridge Knight's poem, "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane".

An analysis of the uncertainty in Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment".

Explores the popularity of courtroom drama as presented in novels, television and films.

An examination of the character Cholly in Toni Morrison's novel, "The Bluest Eye."

An analysis of Emily Grierson's transformation in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily".

A discussion on the outward appearance vs. the inner self of the monster in Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein".

An analysis of Rudyard Kiplings Poem "If", first published in 1909.

A comparative analysis of the depiction of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Lolita Files' "Child of God".

A brief analysis of the themes of postmodernism and fragmentation in Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children".

An analysis of Henry David Thoreau's essay "Autumnal Tints."

A critical review of Phillip Slater's book, "The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point."

A review and analysis of "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich.

A discussion of the common themes of the autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," written by Frederick Douglass.

A review of the book "Shiloh- In Hell before Night" by James L. McDonough.

A review of the novel "War of the Worlds" by Herbert George Wells.

An in-depth analysis of Gustave Flaubert's monumental novel "Madame Bovary," focusing on the role played by the seven deadly sins in defining Emma's life.

A discussion on how Tim O'Brien weaves war and writing together in "The Things They Carried".

An analysis of the dangers of knowledge as demonstrated in Shelley's "Frankenstein".

A review of Vivian Spitz's "Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans".

A review of Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner".

A book review of "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now" by Maya Angelou.

An analysis of the theme of legitimizing Roman power in Augustus' "Res Gestae".

An analysis of Virgil's explicit and implicit indebtedness to the Theocritean model of bucolic poetry from his first "Eclogue".

A look at the politics of art and spectacle in Rome's Golden Age through an analysis of Horace's "Carmen Saeculare".

An analysis of the satire in Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".

A literary analysis of the "Batrachomyomachia", the ancient Greek parody of battle narrative.

A review of the novel "The Giver" by Lois Lowry.

A review of the biography "Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux" by John Neihardt.

A comparative analysis of the feminist writing styles of Kate Chopin and Joyce Carol Oates.

A book review of "The Female Man" by Joanna Russ.

An analysis of Tennessee Williams' use of imagery and symbolism in "The Glass Menagerie".

A review of the book "Wars of the Barbary Pirates: To the Shores of Tripoli, the Birth of the US Navy and Marines" by Gregory Fremont-Barnes.

A review of Patricia Brenner's book "From Novice to Expert".

A review of the story "Ysrael" in the collection "Drown" by Junot Diaz.

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