YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Giovanni and the Literary Canon
Essays 481 - 510
with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...
of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...
feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...
each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...
that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...
OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...
never formally addressing any attacks on his work, commenting on his popularity or penning any eulogy to any of the members of the...
ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...
the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...
It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...
were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...
contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...
work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...
first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...
also been associated with seriousness and intelligence, however, a man who realized that in order to accomplish a goal one had to ...
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...
vocation was to become licensed as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River" which is where he came up with his literary name, M...
and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...
in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...
In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these literary works in terms of their representation of women and culture. There ...
and feels that he usurped his place in the family. Therefore, when Hindley torments Heathcliff when he gets the opportunity. Cathy...
this case Hrothgar, and his subjects. The Beowulf poet states that "It came to his (Hrothgars) mind that he would command men to c...