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Literature Study Guides
Children's Literature
Illustration and Parody in The Stinky Cheese Man
World Folklore and Fairy Tales
Cinderella Story Variants Across World Cultures
Modernist Poetry
Imagist Poetry: Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"
Shakespearean Drama
Is Cleopatra's Death Tragic or Triumphant in Shakespeare?
Classical Literature
Cunning Over Conquest: Odysseus's Mind as Heroic Ideal
Young Adult and Dystopian Fiction
Spectacle as Control: Power and Survival in The Hunger Games
American Drama
Small Town Life and Fate in Wilder's Our Town
African-American Literature
Racism and Oppression in August Wilson's Fences
American Literature
Marriage, Patriarchy, and Freedom in Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
American Literature
The American Dream and Privilege in The Great Gatsby
Victorian Literature
Ebenezer Scrooge: Relationships and Redemption in A Christmas Carol
World War One Literature
Metaphor and Survival in All Quiet on the Western Front
War Literature
All Quiet on the Western Front: The Lost Generation
Comparative Literature
Ghosts and Haunting in Beloved and the Korean Diaspora
Christian Literature
C.S. Lewis on Evil, Faith, and Materialism: Three Works Compared
Comparative Literature
American vs. European Literature: History, Identity, and Canon
African Literature
West African Griots in Sundiata: Roles and Oral Tradition
Poetry Analysis
Mary Oliver's "Seven White Butterflies" and "West Wind 2" Analysis
American Literature
John Updike's Rabbit, Run: Character, Sexuality, and 1950s America
African American Literature
Double-Consciousness in The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
American Literature
Passing in The Great Gatsby and Six Degrees of Separation
African Literature
Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona: A Critical Analysis
Film Adaptation and Literary Analysis
A River Runs Through It: Book vs. Film Adaptation
Chinese Literature
Li Qingzhao's Poetry Through Her Husband's Voice
American Drama
Should Schools Stage "night, Mother"? A Case for Teaching It
American Literature
California Identity and History Through Three Novels
Christian Literature
C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters: Faith and Spiritual Warfare
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Social Criticism in Boccaccio's The Decameron: Patriarchy and Church
Ancient Greek Drama
Fate and Free Will in Sophocles' Oedipus the King
African-American Literature
Ernest Gaines's Bloodline: Race, Identity, and the American South
American Literature
American National Character in Early American Literature
American Literature
Willa Cather and Henry Adams on the True Artist
American Drama
Character and Growth of Women in Glaspell's Trifles
Early Modern Drama
Religion and Ritual in Shakespeare's Hamlet: Purgatory
Modernist Fiction
Eveline's Internal Conflict in James Joyce's Dubliners
American Literature
Death and Self-Reflection in Hemingway's Short Stories
British Poetry
Ted Hughes's Crow and Hawk: Bird Spirit Poetry and the Soul
African-American Literature
Toni Morrison: History, Memory, and Meaning in Her Novels
Postcolonial African Fiction
Okonkwo's Rigidity and the Fractures of Igbo Identity
Film Analysis
Memory, Guilt, and Cinema: Analyzing Eternal Sunshine
American Literature
Strether's Education in Paris: Henry James's The Ambassadors
Children's Literature
Writing a Children's Book: Critical Reflection on Process
Modern Drama
Althusser, Brecht, and the Bourgeois Antihero in Life of Galileo
Modernist Fiction
Being and Becoming in Virginia Woolf's Women Characters
Literary Symbolism and Analysis
The Color Green as a Symbol of Wealth in The Talented Mr. Ripley
American Literature
Heroes and Anti-Heroes: Racism in Himes and Paredes
African American Literature
Female Characters as Catalysts in A Lesson Before Dying
Early Modern British Literature
Race, Class, and Slavery in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko