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A John McGahern Fiction Ecocriticism

(Glotfelty; Fromm, 2003). It invokes thoughts of whether men and women write differently about the natural world, thus presenting ...

Ecocriticism and the Literature of John McGahern

in the shadow of Irelands Iron Mountains, a few locals have populated a bog and settled into their ways" (Freeman, 2002). The enti...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

St. John The Baptist

in their fathers footsteps. Like Jesus, John began preaching at the age of 30 (Catholic Online, 2007). His location was the banks...

Facts and Fiction Regarding John F. Kennedy

is involved in a scandal where a young girl is drowned and while John Jr. had done well for himself, he and his young wife are kil...

Ecocriticism and Post-Colonialism

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

The Environment in Literature: Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism and the Concept of Dwelling

That is, non-ecocritics appear to be uncomfortable with criticism that acknowledges the fact that it is possible the natural world...

Grisham Indicts the Criminal Justice System

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

Worldviews Clash in the Fiction of John Updike and Flannery O'Connor

In ten pages this paper compares the worldview clashes featured in the short stories of John Updike and Flannery O'Connor in an a...

Is The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos Nonfiction or Historical Fiction?

In five pages this paper argues that despite some fictitious elements this work by John Demos represents a text of historical fict...

Television, Movies, and Differences in Class, Race, and Gender

In ten pages the imagery featured in TV and films regarding the differences of class, race, and gender are the focus of this resea...

Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

Fiction and Non-Fiction Narrative

literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

Short Fiction's Depiction of Families

judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...

Sigmund Freud's 'The Uncanny' and Fiction's Messages

In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...

Works of Dewey, Mill, Nozick, Rawls, Locke and Burke and the Influences of Education, Society, and Politics

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

Political Theories' Synopsis

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Fiction and the Depiction of Women

of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...