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Literature Study Guides
Early American Literature
Anne Bradstreet's "The Flesh and the Spirit": Body vs. Soul
Chicana/Latino Literature
Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek": Escape and Identity
Shakespearean Drama
Lady Macbeth's Role and Power in Shakespeare's Macbeth
American Literature
How Humans Should Behave Toward Other Species: An Analysis
Dramatic Literature
Ibsen's A Doll's House: Nora and Mrs. Linde Contrasted
Comics and Graphic Narrative
McCloud's Understanding Comics vs. Kunzle's Early Comic Strip
Young Adult Literature
Friendship and Identity in Ally Carter's Spy School Novel
Chicana/o Literature
Gloria Anzaldúa's "Wind Tugging at My Sleeve": Borders and Identity
Chinese Literature
Moon Symbolism in Eileen Chang's "The Golden Cangue"
Postcolonial Literature
Colonialism in Achebe, Orwell, and Forster: A Comparative Study
Asian American Literature
Loyalty and Ethical Dilemmas in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
American Literature
Alienation in Faulkner's Emily and Eliot's Prufrock
Latin American Literature
Honor and Machismo in Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Russian Literature
Suffering and Redemption in The Brothers Karamazov
Science Fiction Literature
Emiko as Ironic Hero in Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl
American Drama
Walter's Dilemma in A Raisin in the Sun: Ambition vs. Family
American Literature
Sources of the Narrator's Insanity in "The Yellow Wallpaper"
World Literature
Wisdom and Its Limits in Rumi, Sijie, and Soyinka
American Literature
The Meaning of "Home" in Frost, Hughes, and Alexie
German Literature
The Sorrows of Young Werther: Obsession, Society, and Tragedy
Environmental Literature
Diamond and Lopez on Environment, Civilization, and Nature
Feminist Literary Criticism
Gender and Identity in Carter's "Wolf-Alice": A Feminist Reading
Contemporary Short Fiction
Men Undressed Anthology: Female Writers on Male Sexuality
American Literature
Structuralism and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
American Literature
Marriage as Captivity in O. Henry and Kate Chopin
American Literature
Minimalism in Short Fiction: Barth, Meinke, and Proulx
African-American Literature
Black Fiction: The African-American Experience in Short Stories
Children's Literature
Oliver Button Is a Sissy: Celebrating Individuality in Children's Books
Comparative Literature
Thoreau and Frankl: Two Paths to Wisdom and Meaning
Victorian Literature
Parody and Symbolism in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Ancient Greek Literature
Oedipus the King: Fate, Free Will, and Personal Responsibility
Comparative Literature
Vanity and Society in Dostoevsky and Wilde: A Comparative Analysis
American Poetry
Emily Dickinson's "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" Analyzed
Gothic Fiction
Frankenstein's Moral Failure: A Modern Prometheus Analysis
Japanese Literature
Fool's Love and Patriarchal Fantasy in Tanizaki's Naomi
Comparative World Literature
Violence and Heroism in the Bhagavad Gita and Song of Roland
American Literature
Life Lessons in Chopin's and Jewett's Short Stories
Romantic Literature
Scholarly Approaches to Romanticism: 1925, 1951, and 1990
Poetry Analysis
Dana Gioia's "Words": Language, Limits, and Meaning
American Literature
Fetterley's Feminist Reading of "A Rose for Emily"
American Literature
Firelight as Symbol in Tobias Wolff's "The Night in Question"
American Literature
Desire and Discord: Themes in Flowers for Algernon
American Drama
Truth vs. Power in Arthur Miller's An Enemy of the People
Russian Literature
Feminism, Death, and Suffering in Akhmatova's "Requiem"
Comparative Literature and Film
Family Loyalty in Little Miss Sunshine and Kinky
Short Fiction Analysis
Diction and Romantic Characterization in Joyce's "Araby"
American Drama
Identity, Performance, and Reality in Six Degrees of Separation
American Literature
Female Freedom in Jewett and Chopin: Heroines and Autonomy