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Literature Study Guides
Latin American Poetry
Octavio Paz's "Motion": Opposites, Life & Poetry
British Literature
English Views on the French Revolution in Dickens and Burke
Early Modern English Literature
Milton's Paradise Lost as Political Allegory of the English Civil War
African American Literature
Post-Colonial Theory in Richard Wright's Jim Crow Ethics
Drama and Theater
Analyzing Three One-Act Plays: Ives, Martin, and Hwang
Canadian Literature
George Elliott Clarke's Execution Poems: Identity, Race, and Voice
Early Modern Literature
Milton and Shakespeare: Julius Caesar vs Paradise Lost
American Poetry
Mysticism and Doubt in Richard Wilbur's "The Ride"
Shakespearean Drama
Uncertainty, Corruption, and Misogyny in Shakespeare's Hamlet
Medieval Literature
The 12-Step Program as a Framework for Dante's Inferno
Poetry Analysis
Female Sexuality and Tradition in Cathy Song's "The White Porch"
Japanese Literature
Immortality by Kawabata Yasunari: Story Analysis (1963)
Women in Literature
Women's Roles in 19th–20th Century Literature vs. Today
Detective Fiction
Sherlock Holmes vs. Philip Marlowe: A Character Comparison
American Literature
Raymond Carver's "My Father's Life": Sons, Fathers, and Loss
American Literature
My Ántonia, Trifles, and A Raisin in the Sun: Study Guide
American Poetry
Explication of Galway Kinnell's "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps"
Mystery and Suspense Fiction
Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark: A Book Review
African-American Drama
Symbolism and Justice in August Wilson's Fences
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Freudian and Jungian Dream Analysis in Dilys Rose's Story
Contemporary Fiction
Illustration as Metaphor in Ishiguro's Artist of the Floating World
American Literature
Raymond Carver's Early vs. Late Fiction: Style and Growth
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Poe and Carroll: Contrasting Relationships with Women and Girls
Victorian Drama
Innocence vs. Experience in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession
Contemporary World Fiction
Amir and Hassan's Relationship in The Kite Runner
African American Literature
Character Development of Nel in Toni Morrison's Sula
Victorian Literature
Character, Class, and Social Status in Great Expectations
Canadian Literature
Light and Darkness in Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion
Victorian Drama
Mrs. Warren's Profession: Women, Work, and Victorian Society
American Literature
Mark Twain's "The Story of the Good Little Boy": Theme Analysis
Contemporary American Fiction
Anaphora and Memory in Bakopoulos's "Some Memories of My Father"
American Literature
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery": Symbolism and Social Critique
Ancient Greek Drama
Fate vs. Free Will in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
Comparative Literary Analysis
Balzac and Kafka: From Realism to Magical Realism
American Poetry
John Ciardi: Poetry to Instruct and Delight
American Literature
Social Status and Fate in Steinbeck's Cannery Row
Comparative Literature
Marriage and Power in Butler's Kindred and Carpentier's The Lost Steps
Classical Literature and Mythology
Troy (2004): Homer's Iliad as Epic Cinematic Myth
French Drama
Fate vs. Free Will in Molière's The School for Wives
American Poetry
Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath: Death, Womanhood, and Poetry
American Literature
Flowers and Dress as Symbols in Willa Cather's "Paul's Case"
American Literature
The Grandmother's Moral Failure in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Early American Literature
Religion and Authorship in Bradstreet, Wheatley, and Equiano
British Literature
Marriage, Power, and Gender in Pride and Prejudice
European Literature
Isolation in Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, and Kafka's Fiction
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Nibelungenlied vs. Bruni's Florentine History: Agenda in Fiction and Fact
American Literature
The American Dream in Death of a Salesman: Miller, Twain, and Thoreau
African American Literature
Du Bois's "On Being Crazy": Satire, Race, and Intellect