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American Literature
Hyperrealism in DeLillo's Libra: History, Media, and Identity
Victorian Literature
Jane Eyre: Feminist Independence vs. Love in Brontë
European Drama
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House: Setting, Character & Symbolism
Contemporary American Fiction
The Hours by Michael Cunningham: Three Women, One Day
European Literature
Hedda Gabler and Madame Bovary: Female Spirituality
American Literature
Mrs. Turpin and Mary Grace in O'Connor's "Revelation"
American Literature
Illusion vs. Reality: Fitzgerald and Miller on the American Dream
American Literature
Burning Thought: Censorship and Memory in Fahrenheit 451
British Literature
Order vs. Chaos: Civilization and Savagery in Lord of the Flies
German Literature
Anna Seghers's "The Outing of the Dead Schoolgirls" Analyzed
African-American Literature
Universal Themes in A Raisin in the Sun by Hansberry
American Literature
Frederick Douglass's Narrative: Rhetoric and Slavery's Impact on Women
American Literature
Isolation and Death in Cather's Paul's Case and Melville
Romantic Poetry
Nature Imagery in Coleridge's "To William Wordsworth"
Shakespearean Drama
Hamlet's Responsibility for Crimes in Shakespeare's Tragedy
American Literature
Irony and Adolescence in Anne Tyler's "Teenage Wasteland"
Renaissance Literature
Montaigne's Essay on Death: Themes and Rhetorical Analysis
Gothic Fiction
Female Sexuality and Victorian Society in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Political Allegory
Animal Farm and Historical Parallels to Revolution and Power
African-American Literature
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Hughes, DuBois & Hurston
American Literature
Broken Dreams, Bound Men: Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
American Drama
Guilt, Power, and Name: The Crucible's Moral Logic
British Romanticism
The Maker's Guilt: Ambition and Responsibility in Frankenstein
Ancient Greek Literature
Odysseus vs. Polyphemus: Self and Other in The Odyssey
Gothic Fiction
Nature, Identity, and Monstrosity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
American Literature
Psychological Horrors of Slavery in Frederick Douglass's Narrative
British Literature
Honor, Cowardice, and Redemption in Conrad's Lord Jim
French Literature
Bovaryism and Ennui in Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Nonfiction and Exploration Writing
Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic Expedition
American Literature
Family, Race, and Justice in To Kill a Mockingbird
Dramatic Literature
Godot as Nothingness in Beckett's Waiting for Godot
American Literature
The Scarlet Letter and The Rapture of Canaan Compared
Poetry Criticism
Dionysian Analysis of Three Poems by Hamilton, Olds, and Komunyakaa
Feminist Literary Criticism
Motherhood, Patriarchy, and Identity in We Need to Talk About Kevin
American Literature
Memory as Wound: Trauma and Survival in Toni Morrison's Beloved
American Literature
Burning the Mind: Conformity as Censorship in Fahrenheit 451
Medieval Literature
Men, Women, Class, and Language in Chaucer's General Prologue
Chinese Literature
Confucian Values and Rebellion in 17th-Century Chinese Fiction
Early Modern Poetry
John Donne's "Love's Usury": Tone, Rhyme, and Humor
Modern Drama
Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Themes
American Literature
Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Edna's Quest for Self
Postcolonial Literature
Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart: A Comparative Study
American Literature
Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad vs. A Tramp Abroad
Memoir and Military Nonfiction
Hunting the Jackal: A Book Review of Billy Waugh's Memoir
Old English Literature
Treasure and Heroism in Beowulf: Wealth as Moral Currency
Contemporary World Fiction
Sin, Silence, and Redemption: Reading The Kite Runner
American Literature
Holden's Arrested Fall: Grief, Performance, and Breakdown
American Literature
Gold and Grease: Ponyboy Curtis's Identity in The Outsiders