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Mann, Gide, Kafka, Woolf, and Modernism

It was realistic, but the writing was complicated and required the reader to become intimately involved with the subject matter. ...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot

(Longman, 2001). Others, however, bravely forged away from tradition and convention. Longman (2001, PG) notes:...

Comparative Analysis of Protagonists in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Mrs. Dalloway, and A Room with a View

young woman who is constrained in her behaviour and her attitudes by social and family ties, but who is eventually able to break f...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Symbolic Representations

nurturing and a woman of some magical connection to the earth it would seem. When seen in this perspective we can note the influen...

Modernity in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Realism issues and the modernity concept are examined in this analysis of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf consisting of five p...

Nineteenth Century Prejudices and Obstacles Against Women in the Workplace

In five pages this paper discusses the formidable obstacles that have been in place preventing women from achieving professional e...

Modernist Literature and Definitive Characteristics

In nine pages this paper examines the definitive characteristics of modernist literature in a consideration of works by Virginia W...

Short Story Mimetics and Verisimilitude

By the time we reach mid story, and the speech of Stella-Rondo, we have suspended disbelief, as we might in good theater, and bel...

Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, and Characters 'Under the English Queen Mother's Umbrella

This discussion topic focuses on Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf and consists of nine pages. Eight sources are cited in the bibli...

'The Waves' by Virginia Woolf and Its Modernist and Gender Implications

In six pages this paper examines the gender and modernist implications of this work by Virginia Woolf. Three sources are cited in...

Various Quotations and their Meaning

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf and Community

chapters, Woolf presents scenes of varying lengths, which are separated by a blank space, with each scene offering a fragmentary v...

Handkerchief Significance in William Shakespeare's Othello

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Characters of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

Tragic Characters in Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles Compared

In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...

The Tragic Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In ten pages this report discusses the play's tragic characteristics that exist despite its twentieth century setting and the ways...

Underlying Themes in 'The Libation-Bearers' by Aeschylus

psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...

Hamlet is Not the Medieval 2 Dimensional Hero

In five pages this paper considers the tragedy of Hamlet not representing the two dimensions of Medieval heroes who act out of bli...

Overview of Postmodern Views on William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

Tragic Heroism of Prince Hamlet

theater itself, and his own background upon the stage. Hamlet plays the clown with the other actors who arrive to perform ...

The Story of Alvar Cabeza De Vaca y Nunez

In five pages the exciting and tragic story of Cabeza and his Florida colonization efforts on behalf of Spain are discussed....

Tragic Hero Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

First, is that the play should be of serious magnitude, and have an impact on many, many people (McClelland, 2001). The second fac...

Tragic Personality of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Revisiting Childhood

In five pages the ways in which Woolf's novel represents recounting the author's own childhood through characterizations, events, ...

Chip Deffaa's 'Traditionalists and Revivalists in Jazz'

This paper consists of 12 pages and chronicles those significant performers whos contributions are often overlooked in other books...

Female Protagonist in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

his own resulting suicide because he believes his life is not worth living (which, in many ways, parallels Clarissas own ambivalen...

Relationships in The Legacy by Virginia Woolf and The Dead by James Joyce

different ways. While both couples symbolize the bonds of matrimony in one way or another, it is not actually the marriage, in an...

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Changing Times

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the many changes that occurred after World War I and the ways they manifest themselves in the inc...

Socioeconomic Status of Women in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

In six pages this paper discusses how Woolf's education and high social status influenced her views regarding working class women ...

Comparison of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Emma by Jane Austen

This is reflected in Emmas refusal to allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a ...