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Genre of Performance Art

In five pages this paper defines performance art in a consideration of such artists as Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Vito Acconci, Carol...

Demonstration of the Epic Qualities Imitated by Aristotle in 'The Odyssey,' 'The Epic of Gilgamesh, 'Beowulf,' and 'Romeo And Juliet'

previous approached, inasmuch as the components of courage, strength, power and physical prowess have as much to do with social im...

Fantasy to Postmodern Evolution of Children's Literature

In eight pages the evolution from fantasy to postmodern in the children's literature genre is considered in an examination of The ...

Literary Crime Fiction

In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...

The Fly Film by David Cronenberg

In eight pages this 1986 film is examined in terms of the horror genre and how it has always warned against the social changes res...

TV Series The X Files

In seven pages this paper discusses the adventure, thriller, and science fiction genres encompassed by The X Files TV series. Six...

Romanticism in King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the Romantic qualities that are featured in King Lear, a hundred years before the genre was eve...

Film Noir and McCarthyism

and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...

The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux

In seven pages this research paper analyzes the modern drama genre and how this play by Giraudoux can be categorized as an example...

Comparative Analysis of Film Directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg

In six pages this paper examines the approaches to the horror genre by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg in this con...

Common Traits of Ancient Art

In this paper, the writer looks at the different art forms of ancient cultures, including pieces from Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, a...

Apocolypse Now

Coppola also uses the aspect of theater, which acknowledges that each member of the audience will bring with them, to the theater,...

Andrew Crumey's Second Novel fitz

fanciful conceits, the same thing that Escher has done with line and image. Interestingly enough, the comparison doesnt stop ther...

Oleanna by David Mamet

and critic Thomas Eagleton as a "modernist literary work," meaning that the content is purposely left minimal so that it is up to ...

Gothic Literature and its Antiheroes

In six pages three Gothic genre authors including Bram Stoker are examined in a consideration of their works, the antiheroes they ...

Four Examples of Minority Literature

This paper examines four stories from the genre, including Bambara's Medley, Kingston's, No Name Woman, Chavez's The Last of the M...

U.S. Minority Literature

In a paper that contains five pages four stories written by women that are representative of the so called minority literature gen...

Feminism and Gender Bias in Science Fiction

This paper explores the idea of feminist characters and plots in the genre of science fiction. This eleven page paper has seven s...

Post-Impressionistic Bathers at Asniers by Georges Seurat

them. Putting complementary colors next to each other also increased their blended intensity. Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891) I ...

1960s' and the Development of the British Farce

In twenty five pages this paper examines the 1960s' development of a genre known as the British farce in an analysis that includes...

Everyman vs. Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman and Everyman by William Langland are contrasted and compared in this paper. Themes and genre are discussed. Only the...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

Comparing Wordsworth's 'Ode Intimations of Mortality' to Keats' 'Ode to a Grecian Urn'

Early on in the history of odes the expected delivery was through song. Chorus would sing different categoric divisions of the re...

Horror Films and Gender

Film criticism and gender are discussed in relation to the horror genre. A look at sexual mores is included. This five page paper...

Positive and Negative Aspects of TV Violence

In six pages this paper discusses how violence in television is represented in reality, horror, and children's program genres. Fi...

Classical versus Romantic Music and Meaning

like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...

Comparative Analysis of Detective Works Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe and The Second Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders

by the brilliance and deductive reasoning that the detective uses. Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot is reminiscent of a brilliant d...

Film Noir Aspects of Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters

factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...

Rap Music

In 6 pages this paper philosophically analyzes rap and alternative music's impact upon cultures in a consideration of genre and su...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...