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Literature Study Guides
American Drama
Escape and Memory in The Glass Menagerie by Williams
American Literature
Coming of Age in Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson"
Comparative Literature
Metamorphosis and Frankenstein: Themes of Isolation
Poetry Analysis
Sexism and Feminism in Muriel Rukeyser's "Myth"
Modernist Fiction
Youth and Authenticity in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist
American Poetry
Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider": Soul and Metaphor
Poetry Analysis
High Treason by José Emilio Pacheco: Poem Analysis
American Literature
Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad and American Attitudes Abroad
Modernist Short Fiction
Love and Loneliness in D.H. Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"
Classical Literature
Time and Timelessness in Three Classical Literary Works
African-American Literature
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin: Themes of Pain and Redemption
American Literature
Women, Marriage, and Freedom in 18th-Century Fiction
Russian Literature
Psychological Impoverishment in Chekhov's "Anyuta"
American Literature
Flannery O'Connor's Southern Gothic Style and Themes
American Literature
Gertrude Stein: Life, Writing Style, and Paris Legacy
Drama and Theater
Acting, Absurdity, and Meaning in Hamlet and Stoppard
Early Modern Drama
How Shakespeare Used Music in His Plays and Works
American Literature
Good vs. Evil in Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle
African American Literature
Slave Narratives and the Civil Rights Era: Moody and Malcolm X
British Literature
Alexander Pope's Essay on Man as a Rationalist Manifesto
Shakespearean Drama
Iago's Character and Villainy in Shakespeare's Othello
Comparative Literature
Richard III and The Odyssey: Good vs. Evil Compared
Latin American Literature
I, Rigoberta Menchú: Identity, Oppression, and Resistance
British Literature
Gender and Patriarchy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Enlightenment Literature
Usbek's Seraglio as a Metaphor for the French Court
American Literature
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried: War's Human Cost
Asian Literature & Political Memoir
Daughter of the River: Maoism as Betrayal of Marxist Ideals
Elizabethan Drama
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: Tragedy, Renaissance, and Damnation
American Literature
Materialism and Class in The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
Irish Literature
Francie Brady's Descent into Madness in The Butcher Boy
Digital Humanities and Literary Resources
Evaluating a Hypertext Document on Romantic Literature
Shakespearean Drama
Romeo and Juliet: Teenage Love, Impulsiveness, and Tragedy
American Literature
Chris McCandless: Journey, Quest, and Heroic Sanctity
American Literature
Isolation and Identity in Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"
British and Irish Literature
Swift's "A Modest Proposal": Surprise Ending and Persuasion
Gothic and Horror Fiction
Interview with the Vampire: Book vs. Movie Comparison
British Literature
Sir Walter Scott: Works, Style, and Literary Legacy
Latin American Literature
Magical Realism and the "Other" in Garcia Marquez's Angel Story
Irish and British Poetry
Northern Irish Poetry and The Troubles: Generations Compared
Israeli Literature
Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar: Exile, Irony, and Israeli Identity
Victorian Literature
Women's Nature in Dickens' Oliver Twist: A Victorian Analysis
American Literature
Deconstructing "Death" in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour
American Literature
Raymond Carver's Life and Its Influence on His Fiction
Asian-American Literature
Mothers, Daughters, and Identity in Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club
French Literature
Narrative Style and Objectification in Flaubert's Madame Bovary
African American Literature
Amiri Baraka: Culture, Art, and Identity in His Poetry
American Literature
Bartleby's Ghost-Like Symbolism in Melville's Story
Non-Fiction Book Reviews
Book Review: Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell