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Literature Study Guides
American Nonfiction
Nickel and Dimed: Poverty and Low-Wage Work in America
Chinese Literature
Poetry and Politics in 1079: The Su Shih Censorship Case
British Romantic Poetry
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Sin, Nature, and Allegory
Shakespearean Drama
Othello as Aristotle's Tragic Hero: Hamartia and Free Will
Comparative Poetry
Love, Loss, and Impermanence in Labé and Cruz's Sonnets
European Drama
Hedda Gabler: Dramatic Structure and Character Analysis
Comparative Literature
Dante's Divine Comedy and Hesse's Siddhartha: A Comparative Study
American Literature
America's Promise to Immigrants: New Culture or Old Roots?
Book Reviews — Nonfiction
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan: A Critical Review
African American Literature
Malcolm X and Sophia: Character Analysis in The Autobiography
American Literature
Raymond Carver: Darkness, Hope, and Everyday Beauty
Victorian Poetry
Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears": Idle, Idol, and Idyll
Literary Criticism
Death in Venice: Cultural and Reader-Response Criticism
Classical Literature
Sappho: Ancient Greek Poet, Style, and Legacy
American Literature
Britt vs. Barry: Humor, Neatness, and Gender in Satire
African American Literature
Interracial Desire and Power in Ellison and Malcolm X
Victorian Literature
Paganism, Nature, and Fate in Tess of the D'Urbervilles
American Literature
Bernard Malamud: Life, Writing Style, and The Natural
British Literature
Swift's Satire of Human Nature in Gulliver's Travels Part IV
Biography and Memoir
Heavier Than Heaven: Kurt Cobain Biography Review
Shakespearean Drama
Hamlet's Descent Into Madness: A Character Study
Political Nonfiction
Arundhati Roy's Power Politics: Big Dams in India
Book Review — History and Religion
Book Review: The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill
Renaissance Poetry
Wyatt's "How the Lover Perisheth": A Sonnet Analysis
Asian American Literature
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Rolling the R's by Linmark
Postcolonial Literature
Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place: Postcolonial Identity
American Literature
Naturalism in "The Open Boat" and "To Build a Fire"
British Modernist Literature
Gender Norms and Female Empowerment in Women in Love
Literary Analysis
Love as Loss: Eros, Attachment, and Tragic Knowledge
Russian Literature
Punishment Before the Crime: Guilt in Dostoevsky
American Literature
Loneliness and Isolation in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Memoir and Autobiography
Book Review: The Lost Boy by David Pelzer
Young Adult Literature
Holes by Louis Sachar: Fantasy, Realism, and Modern Fairy Tales
American Literature
Forrest Gump by Winston Groom: Disability, Identity & Irony
American Literature
Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People": Analysis
Historical Memoir
Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner: A Book Review
Holocaust Memoir
Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz: Luck, Skill, and Humanity
Philosophy and Gender Studies
Contractual Selves: Marriage as Negotiated Identity
Literary Theme Analysis
The Mask and the Mirror: Hypocrisy in Literature
American Drama
Willy Loman's Collapse: Delusion as Self-Destruction
American Drama
Inherited Ruin: Why Blanche DuBois Lost Belle Reve
World Literature
Culture as Constraint and Compass in World Literature
Philosophy and Psychology of Literature
Melancholia and Modernity: Beyond the Diagnosis of Sadness
Psychological Literary Analysis
Behind the Curtain: The Wizard as Narcissist
Shakespeare
Feigned and Real: The Strategic Madness of Hamlet
Medieval Literature
Chaucer's Mirror: Class, Corruption, and the Canterbury Tales
Dystopian Fiction
Truth, Self, and Power: Orwell's 1984 on Trial
American Literature
Squeaky and Jing-Mei: Comparing Two Strong Girls in Fiction