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Critical Reception to Alice Adams's Fiction

In eight pages the varied critical responses to Adams's fiction particularly as it portrayed class is discussed with reference mad...

Edward Albee's Play Tiny Alice and Its Critical Reception

plot, he said that he could not possibly relate what went on during the three-hour production (Kolin and Davis 19). Author Philip ...

The Presidency in the Federal Era

as well as foreign policy issues. For example, Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law, something that made it difficult...

American Scene Painting Art Movement

critical reception and the issues and themes addressed in their work. Regionalism A principal thrust in this school was the conc...

The Irving Stone Novel Lust for Life

assumption that a bourgeois young man could move into this environment, sprinkle a little Gospel around like holy water, and grow ...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

This research paper, which includes a one page outline, offers an overall view of Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary. The repor...

Inclusion in the Contemporary Literary Canon, Anton Chekhov

This research paper/essay provides an argument that Chekhov deserves his place in the literary canon, providing a brief overview o...

The Critical Reception of A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

the sheriff and the inevitable nightriders. As Gaines unravels the reasons why the old black men, as well as the young white woma...

Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

In five pages this 1985 debut novel by Jeanette Winterson is examined with a synopsis and consideration of its critical reception....

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

In eight pages the author, his novel, and its critical reception are examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Jack London/Call of the Wild

In deciding how to interpret Call of the Wild, another comment made by Labor is also insightful, as he writes that "In book after...

Walker: “Everyday Use”

as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...

An Analysis of The Lovely Bones

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Women's Roles

is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...

Alice Munro's Fiction

perspective it is not always easy to analyse Munros work, since the layering of different narrative threads draws the reader into ...

Opposing Critical Perspectives on As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

In six pages this paper examines the opposing critical perspectives of Adams and Eldridge on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. F...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Critical Analysis

This essay offers critical analysis of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The writer draws on supporting sources to argue that siste...

Alice Walker's Activist Message that Anything We Love Can be Saved as a Call to Arms

This is a critical analysis of a pair of essays contained in Alice Walker's collection of activist messages, Anything We Love Can ...

Charlotte Pierce Baker and Houston A. Baker's Analysis of Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' Reviewed

A review of this critical analysis of the short story 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker is presented in seven pages. There are no ot...

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...

Evaluating John Adams's Presidency

the lions share of the credit" (Bruns, 2007). McCullough says that Adams had an "astute political mind" as well as being an eloqu...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

Sam Adams Beer

The writer examines the Boston Beer Company, which manufactures Sam Adams. The writer discusses the company's market position and ...

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...

Second U.S. President John Adams

a transformational leader. According to Burns, Burns, transformational leaders are change agents, they take more risks than others...

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 ...