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Literary Symbolism in Novels of Exile, 2008.
A review of the books "A Bend in the River" by V.S. Naipaul and "The Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys.
1,396 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper analyzes the symbolism behind two distinct novels that deal with issues of exile, political strife and social turmoil - V.S. Naipaul's "A Bend in the River" and "The Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys. The paper explains how both books utilize nature in many ways as an association and correlation to the themes in their respective novels. The paper also looks at how there is a sense of duality in both books, as nature can depict a tide of change in addition to a resistance by a people to maintain tradition and a way of life that is invaded by unnatural intruders. The paper also discusses how the interpretation of literary symbols in classic novels has always been imperative to understanding the full scope of an author's message. Additionally, the paper shows that both Naipual and Rhys utilize nature to formulate strong symbolic meanings and associate them to the domination of European culture and the notion that colonization fragments Africa from its way of life.
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"Naipaul's main character Salim in A Bend in the River takes a ritual journey through Africa which is loaded with numerous metaphors and 'coming of age' events. Salim's realization of the neurosis during colonization and the indigenous social conflict is especially realized when he travels outside of Africa. In his education, he encounters a great deal of realities that shape his perception of Westernization and he quickly begins to realize the pending abomination that is to result from Western influence in his homeland. To further indicate this importance, Naipaul utilizes water to paint a picture of stillness and change. This duality extends to the natural resources that surround the river, similar to the journey of Conrad in The Heart of Darkness. The contrast here is not the personal battle against Africa, Salim is more cognizant of his native surroundings and understands the futility and destruction that will be realized with the synthesis of two conflicting ideologies."
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Poetry in Exile, 2002.
A review of the work of poets whose work reflects their own personal exile.
1,937 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper discusses how, in poetry, there are poets who reflect on their own exile, either introspectively from the world or physically from their home country, and poets who reflect on the state of exile in all the facets that it encompasses. It shows how poets like Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas wrote more and more about elements of exile, or analogies of exile, significantly, through their own turmoil or their own social position. It also examines how other poets, like Michael Palmer, reflect on exile through poetry that challenges political and social contexts and forces us to think about, perhaps even remove ourselves from, our own comfort and surroundings, therefore, committing an act of exile on behalf of the poet.
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"Michael Palmer has been commended on many levels for his work ?At Passages?, namely for its ?underpinning of phenomenological panic, with its awareness of the psychotic matrix of the political and the personal? (Mullins, 2003). We can contrast this ?psychotic matrix? with the internal conflict reflected in much of the imagery and metaphors used in Sylvia Plath?s works, including the posthumous work ?Ariel?. In it, Plath intertwines three central themes under the guise of ?Ariel?; these are horses, and her horse Ariel, the Biblical references to Ariel, and herself. "
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Detective Novels Compared, 2002.
A comparative analysis of five recent children's detective novels and five recent adult detective novels.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will argue that the key point of similarity between the two forms of detective fiction is the adherence of the authors to a formula. It will be seen that while the adult novels are undeniably more complex than the children's works, both generally present their audiences with the comforting familiarity of formulaic plot and repeating characters.
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Perspective and Stereotype in Western Detective Novels, 2001.
The writer examines novels by Agatha Christie and Joseph Conrad, and discusses characters and scenes in light of prejudices the authors may have held, bringing as evidence Chinese (non-Western) detective novels.
2,200 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 2 sources, $ 68.95
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We can also see the kind of xenophobic stereotypes that Christie used when we compare her works to detective fiction taken from an entirely different cultural tradition: When we think about the detective novel, we are most likely to see in our mind?s eye Sherlock Holmes?s deerstalker cap or hear the Belgian accents of Hercule Poirot. The genre of detective fiction ? with its traditional elements of the seemingly perfect crime, the wrongly accused suspect at whom circumstantial evidence points (in many cases, the bungling of the dim-witted police (in opposition to the cleverness of the private operator), the astonishing powers of observation and superior mind of the detective, and a startling and unexpected denouement (quite likely taking place in a parlor) in which the detective reveals how the identity of the culprit was ascertained ? seems a quintessentially Western concept.
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Slavery Novels, 2002.
A discussion of two novels written about African American society during the period of the abolishment of slavery: ?Ambition? by Beryl Weston and ?Contending Forces? by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins.
1,035 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper examines these novels which depict the lives of Black Americans in the dominant white American society prior and after the legal abolishment of black slavery. Both novels discuss these social issues while discussing and narrating in closer detail the everyday lives of black Americans as they go through their lives in a new established society. The novels were written at slightly different time periods and the paper examines the differences in society during these times.
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"These love stories also illustrate how the society and the people in it determine the fate and course of romantic love for the main characters. However, the novels start in a different pace: ?Contending Forces? starts with the abolishment of black slavery, then proceeds with life in a society that has its black Americans as the equals of white Americans, not as slaves of them. Meanwhile, ?Ambition? by Weston starts initially with the already abolished black slavery, and we are introduced to a new American society, wherein black Americans are now educated and lived as equals with the white Americans. Despite these differences in the narrative structure, both novels are great eye- openers that illustrate what American society is like after the abolishment of black slavery and what society is like with black Americans as part of the whole operation of running a functional society."
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Comparison of the Exodus and the Exile, 2002.
Comparison and contrast of the stories of the Jewish Exodus and Exile to the Scriptures.
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Obedience plays an important role in both the Exodus and the Exile. Simply put: All the Israelites had to do was to obey the laws that God gave to Moses. One of these laws was to put no other gods before God. Yet, throughout the travels of the Israelites through the wilderness to the Exile, the Israelites had problems in putting God first and obeying His commandments. This paper will compare and contrast the Exodus and the Exile with Scriptures to prove how God simply wanted to be put first in the lives of the Israelites.
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Effects Of The Environment On Literary Characters, 2002.
Discusses the characters of two Chicano novels.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 55.95
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Discusses the characters of two Chicano novels. Sandra Cisneros' THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET and Tomas Rivera's AND THE EARTH DID NOT DEVOUR HIM. How both novels use the environment to establish the tone. Compares and contrasts differences of the novels in terms of such characterstics as geography, people and time.
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"As local Latin novels, Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Tomas Rivera's And the Earth Did Not Devour Him both present the effects of environment on the characters and illustrates how environment can be used to establish the tone of a novel. Although these two novels share many similarities with respect to ethnicity and its effects, they differ in terms of such characteristics as geography, people, and time. This report will compare and contrast these elements and will argue that a critical difference between the two is that Rivera focuses on the environment in which Mexican-American migrant workers of the 1940s and 1950s lived while Cisneros positions her story in an urban barrio.
Rivera's story takes place within the context of the experiences of the Chicano ..."
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Poetry in Exile, 2004.
Examines themes of exile in the works of several poets, such as Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, and other world artists.
1,937 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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In poetry, there are poets that reflect on their own exile, either introspectively from the world or physically from their home country, and poets who reflect on the state of exile in all the facets that it encompasses. The paper examines examples of poetry in exile by poets, such as Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Egypt's Naguib Surur, and Lithuanian Jonas Mekas.
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"In contrast, Palmer?s work, ?At Passages?, also combines metaphors of character and setting and uses them to defy the intellectual reasoning a reader could strip a poem with, as is seen so many times. Plath?s protagonist was Lady Lazarus, who in essence was the defining character of Plath?s own suicide. She displayed the ?beauty? of death and Plath?s inner-most thoughts on death and suicide. In Palmer?s works, the protagonist is the imagery that conjures up equally disturbing ?truths? about death, and rebirth..."
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Social Novels, 2004.
A paper that links several novels through the theme of social awareness and change.
1,005 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at examples of social novels and how the writers used these reflections as a method of critique and to suggest ways to change. The novels referred to in the paper include George Orwell?s "1984"; George Orwell?s "Animal Farm"; John Steinbeck?s "The Grapes of Wrath";and Joseph Heller?s "Catch-22". The paper concludes that the unifying thread in all these social novels is their reflection of reality.
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"Joseph Heller?s novel has more in common with Orwell?s writings than with Steinbeck. Unlike Steinbeck, who strove for a hyper-realism in The Grapes of Wrath, Heller?s Catch-22 uses satire to chronicles the futility and ultimate dehumanization of war. While stationed in the fictional Mediterranean island of Pianosa, Air Force soldier John Yossarian participates in several brutal and dangerous operations, where his men die not for their country, but to obtain good aerial pictures of the exploding targets. Disgusted that his life is constantly in danger for nothing, Yossarian vows to survive this pointless war at all costs. He thus spends much of his time faking illness and devising ways to be sent home."
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Marxist Literary Theories, 2002.
A look at "Marxist Literary Theories" by David Forgacs.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper summarizes an article entitled "Marxist Literary Theories" by David Forgacs, from a book entitled "Modern Literary Theory, A Comparative Introduction", edited by Ann Jefferson and David Robley. The article, and this paper, provide an explanation of the basic modes and underlying assumptions of Marxist literary theories.
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Literary Theory, 2002.
An overview of the different forms of literary theory
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This paper is about literary theory. Literary theory in its varied forms from structuralism to post-structuralism, from feminism to post-modernism, and from psychoanalytic to liberalism, have made an array of critical evaluations about the links between language, the writer, the text and the reader.
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Place in Two Novels, 2002.
A comparison of two novels one by author Charles Dickens and the other by George Eliot.
1,815 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the two novels: Charles Dickens' "Dombey and Son" as a novel of metropolitan life, and George Eliot's "Middlemarch" as a novel of provincial life. The author chose these novels to offer the reader a view of England through two different eyes. The novels also convey how writers manage to get their themes and thoughts across to their readers in different ways.
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"Dicken's novel "Dombey and Son" appeared in serial form in 1847 and 1848. It tells the story of Mr. Dombey, a proud, rich businessman who hopes to pass his prosperous company on to his son, Paul, but Paul dies as a child, and there is no one to carry on the business. Because he is so enamored of his company, and passing it on to his heir, he neglects his kind daughter Florence"
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Homoerotic Desire in William Faulkner's Novels, 2004.
This paper discusses homoerotic desire as a literary tool in Faulkner?s ?Light in August?, ??The Sound and the Fury?, and ?Absalom, Absalom!?.
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This paper focuses, not on Faulkner?s potential bisexuality, but on the textual examples within Faulkner?s novels to demonstrate the use of homosexuality in exploring the themes of male homosocial pressures and homosexuality. The author points out that William Faulkner also uses blacks, women, the insane, and the mentally retarded as launching pads for Faulknerian creativity; and, despite being guilty of measures of racism and misogyny, he has an agenda, which is more progressive and egalitarian than his time and place dictated. The paper relates that homoerotic desire in Faulkner?s work provides character layering, which adds motive, validity, and realism, and homoeroticism provides frameworks and parallels. Many literary examples.
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"The author created concepts of gayness to stimulate notions of anti-homophobia in Hightower, Joe Christmas, and Percy Grimm. Light in August concludes with the castration of Christmas by Grimm, which is a focus on the white Southern male?s sexual crisis regarding black males, Now you?ll let white women alone, even in hell (LA 464). ?But a homoerotic subtext also is at play in this moment? (Duvall, 62). Hightower exclaims that Christmas was with him on the night of the murder and Grimm furiously states, Has every preacher and old maid in Jefferson taken their pants down to the yellowbellied son of a bitch (LA 464). ?Christmas becomes doubly threatening to Grimm; in addition to violating the taboo against miscegenation, Christmas (as well as Hightower) is perceived as a pervert."
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Social Protest Novels, 2004.
Analysis of "Uncle Tom?s Cabin" and "All Quiet on the Western Front" as novels of social protest.
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This paper looks at the techniques used in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and Remarque's novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front", to protest the social conditions they were writing about. Both authors use the language and the metaphors of their time to help emphasize their point. Stowe also used narration, commentary, and poetry to make her anti-slavery statement, whereas Remarque relied heavily on graphic depictions to make his anti-war statement. To help determine the effectiveness of the novels' social protest, the paper compares the two novels to David Halberstam's journalistic account of the Vietnam War.
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"There is a single problem common to Uncle Tom?s Cabin and All Quiet on the Western Front, despite the works? having been created in different centuries on different continents and nominally about different subjects. The single, common problem is this: the valuation of one group of human beings by another, with that valuation coming in lower for the group being valued."
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Ethnic Literary Analysis, 2007.
This paper provides an African-American and ethnic literary analysis of the Novel 'Oroonoko: or The Royal Slave' by Aphra Behn and the Essay "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston.
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This article discusses two works containing either African or African-American themes, Aphra Behn's novel 'Oroonoko: or The Royal Slave' (1633) and Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How It Feels to be Colored Me" (1928). The writer notes that when compared against one another, they reveal considerable differences in the perspectives of their authors: In the first case, a 17th century white Englishwoman; and in the second, a late 19th and early 20th century African-American woman folklorist descended from slaves. In this essay, using African American and ethnic literary analysis of both works, the writer explores and analyzes similarities and distinctions in the ways that both authors deal with the subjects of American or African-American identity and black-white relationships, within their respective literary works.
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"Other key characters in the novel, again drawn from an obviously white European narrative perspective, include Oroonoko's treacherous grandfather the King of the tribe, who also lusts after his grandson's love interest Imoinda, thereby reinforcing two familiar African stereotypes: overweening lust and inter-tribal rivalry and treachery, even against one's own flesh and blood. Within Aphra Behn's portrait of the African environment inhabited at first by Oroonoko and Imoinda, then, family ties are brittle, and being sold into slavery is, by implication, less heart-rending than it might be for those with stronger family ties."
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