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Essays 241 - 270
In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....
sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...
conservative minister and professor teaching at the Dallas Seminary. He recalls that he was very complacent in his beliefs. "The G...
to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...
evidenced in his relationship with both Augustus and Dirk Peters. Augustus is the son of the captain of the ship of which Pym is ...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...
(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...
on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...
possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...
machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...
alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...
literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...
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...
are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...
of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...
judgements about his surroundings came as naturally as breathing, yet he was raised with a cultural model that stressed that child...
In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...
him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...
room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...
This 7 page paper gives an analysis of the story “The Cask of Amontillado”. This paper includes discussion or other articles about...
a diametrically opposed stance to this view, as it seems much more likely, particularly when one considers Poes careful and meticu...
starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...
old Jimmy Ray Payne and twenty-seven year old Nathaniel Cater (Breed, 2005). Williams had been apprehended in the cases largely a...
white police intrusion into the black community. Himes pictures Harlem as having a uniquely black character, which means that its ...
the details of case - even to the point of coming off as offensive and brash - was construed out of a need for a more meaty type o...
which Friday took his strategy, this case would likely not have ever seen the inside of a courtroom; however, the intricate web of...