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Book of the Three Virtues by Christine de Pizan

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...

Allen Ginsberg's Life and Poetic Art

that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...

Life and Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

American Author Washington Irving

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

Author Virginia Woolf

The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...

Life, Literature, and Criticisms of James Joyce

to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

Life and Writings of Lois Lowry

stories and poems in notebooks" (IPL Kidspace). In this interview she also noted, "My books have varied in content and style. Y...

4 Poems in Billy Collins' Nine Horses

said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...

Twentieth Century Literary Icon Ernest Hemingway

Park and published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper. Upon his graduation in 1917 Hemingway worked six m...

1644 to 1844 Ch'ing Dynasty and Life Affirmation Importance

In ten pages this paper examines China's Ch'ing dynasty's first 200 years in a consideration of the importance of life affirmation...

Style and Technique in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

In eight pages this paper discusses the life and writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne in an analysis of his various literary techniques...

Life and Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

This paper considers the life and most famous literary works of New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne, which include Twice Told T...

Life and Writings of James Fenimore Cooper

one of which he did not take advantage; Cooper appreciated all that was afforded to him. One of the most influential aspects of h...

Life, Art, and Maya Angelou

In five pages this research paper examines how the life of Maya Angelou is featured in her literary art with such texts as Heart o...

Plot, Florida, and Literary Quality of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In seven pages this paper examines how 1930s' Florida life is presented, literary aspects, and plot significance of Zora Neale Hur...

Myth and Reality of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra

in "All for Love" presented a much more traditional Cleopatra, that is, someone who is more of an addictive substance then a ruler...

Life, Moral Judgments, and 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this report examines whether or not Ivan's death represents a moral judgment resulting from his life in this classic...

Life and Works of Irish Dramatist J.M. Synge

In fifteen pages this report examines Synge's life, literary works and the effects of the Aran Islands on his writings. Twelve so...

E.M. Forster and Martha Nussbaum

In six pages this report examines class consciousness and inequalities as represented in E.M. Forster's Edwardian novel Howards En...

Opium and the Life of Thomas DeQuincey's as Revealed in Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

English Romantic Thomas DeQuincey no only used opium but was addicted to it. It possessed his life and played a critical role in ...

Biographical Profile of J.R.R. Tolkien

a place that subsequently would become a part of the city suburb of Hall Green (Lyster, 2001). While growing up, this boy who woul...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson

In a paper consisting of 6 pages Emily Dickinson's life and poetry are considered with a discussion of her American literary contr...

American Born British Author Henry James

In six pages this paper examines James' life and how his literary style had been molded only by himself and not his time spent in ...

Life and Writings of James Baldwin

In six pages this paper celebrates the life and literary works of James Baldwin in a consideration of his writings' enduring impac...

Herman Melville's Life and Works

In six pages this paper discusses how Herman Melville's life and societal beliefs molded Moby Dick, his literary masterpiece. The...

Life and Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper analyzes the life and literary contributions of Ralph Waldo Emerson and also considers the website that f...

Do Humans Control Their Own Lives?

This 7 page paper asks to what degree humans control their own lives. It uses three literary works, Metamorphosis by Kafka; The Lo...

Harlem's Poet Laureate Langston Hughes

of poetry, ten collections of short fiction, two novels, two volumes of autobiography, nine books for children and more than two d...