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Literature Study Guides
British Romantic Poetry
Wordsworth's Prelude: Memory, Nature, and Poetic Growth
Old English Literature
Beowulf as a Folk Epic: Structure, Heroism, and Identity
American Literature
Jazz and Syncopation in Jack Kerouac's On the Road
American Short Fiction
Biographical Reading of Ann Beattie's "Janus"
Old English Literature
Beowulf: Summary, History, and Epic Hero Analysis
American Literature
American Literature: From Colonialism to Realism
American Poetry
Anne Sexton: Life, Confessional Poetry, and Legacy
American Literature
Family and Identity in Cathy Song's Poetry
World Literature
Purity and Deceit in Ramayana and 1001 Arabian Nights
American Literature
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: Writing, Genius, and Legacy
Comparative Literature
Betrayal in Literature: From Homer to Dante and Shakespeare
British Romantic Poetry
William Blake's "Songs of Innocence": Poetic Form and Meaning
Comparative Literary Analysis
Literary Analysis: Akunin, Kaufman, and Reece Compared
African-American Literature
Racial Identity and Beauty in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Feminist Literary Criticism
Memory and Identity in Beloved and The Handmaid's Tale
Comparative Literature
Belonging to Family and Place in Skrzynecki and Rabbit-Proof Fence
Dystopian Fiction
Language and the Past vs. Present in Orwell's 1984
Historical Fiction
The Black Arrow by Stevenson: A Historical Novel Review
Chinese Literature
The True Story of Ah Q: Lu Xun's Critique of China
Middle Eastern Literature & Memoir
When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life Under Israeli Occupation
Modern Drama
Lord Byron in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia: Absence and Meaning
American Literature
For Whom the Bell Tolls: War's Dehumanizing Effects
Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Pope's Epistle to Burlington: Taste, Satire, and Palladian Ideals
English Literature
Dryden and Pope on Good Writing and Literary Criticism
Old English Literature
Beowulf: Pagan Heroism and Christian Morality in the Epic
American Drama
Marriage and Love in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Russian Literature
Death of Ivan Ilyich: Characters, Spirituality & Death
American Literature
Amy Tan: Life, Works, and Literary Identity
Chicano Literature
Dreams and Identity in Bless Me, Ultima by Anaya
Classical Literature
Character Development of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid
American Literature
Ellen Foster and Frederick Douglass: Struggle and Freedom
Ancient Greek Literature
Achilles' Speech in Iliad Book 9: Honor, Pride, and Glory
Comparative Literature
Betrayal in Othello and The Count of Monte Cristo
Japanese Literature
Beauty and Sadness in Japanese Literature: A Modern Retelling
Shakespearean Drama
Banquo as Macbeth's Foil in Shakespeare's Macbeth
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Grendel's Mother in Beowulf: Vengeance and Maternal Love
American Drama
Arthur Miller's The Crucible and the American Fear of Dissent
American Literature
Is Walden an Eden? Thoreau's Quest for Simple Living
African-American Literature
Du Bois and Black Toil in Post-Reconstruction Literature
American Literature
Conscience vs. Law in Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor
Gothic and Victorian Literature
Feminism and Gender in Bram Stoker's Dracula
American Theatre
"Abie's Irish Rose": Stereotypes, Comedy, and Broadway History
American Literature
Edgar Allan Poe's Influence on Alfred Hitchcock's Films
Old English Literature
The Mead Hall in Beowulf: Symbol of Anglo-Saxon Culture
American Literature
Edna's Dual Life and Self-Discovery in The Awakening
Russian Literature
Tatyana as the Central Hero of Eugene Onegin
Poetry Analysis
D.C. Berry's "On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High"
Ancient and Classical Literature
Flood Myths: Epic of Gilgamesh vs. Book of Genesis