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- 1001: Gulliver's Travels: Summary
- ... Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, and other Writings. New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1962. Harold, Bloom, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations of Gulliver's Travels. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Long, William J. "Jonathan Swift," English Literature. Boston, Mass.: Ginn and Company, 1964. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, An Annotated Text with Critical Essays. United States: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1961.
- 1002: Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
- ... about his relationship with his mother, Calvin says, "My mother and I do not connect. Why should it bother me? My mother is a very private person." This sort of response is called, in psychological literature, "rationalization". We see Conrad's anger and aggression is displaced, i.e. vented on another, as when he physically attacked a schoolmate. Yet, he also turns his anger on himself and expresses in extreme and ...
- 1003: Lost Heritage in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"
- ... Dee criticizes Mama for not understanding heritage when, in fact, Dee fails to really understand heritage. Dee mistakenly places heritage wholly in what she owns, not what she knows. Works Cited Walker, Alice. "Everyday Use." Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1994. 288-295.
- 1004: The Major Years: Isolation and Emily Grierson - A Deadly Combination
- ... found the resistance to show them she was not someone to be taken lightly. BIBLIOGRAPHY Backman, Melvin. Faulkner: The Major Years, A Critical Study. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966 Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy. New York: Harpers Collins, 1991. Pp. 24-31 Gwin, Minrose c. The Femenine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee ...
- 1005: Human Nature: Exposed
- Human Nature: Exposed More than a century ago, Mark Twain probably composed the single-most important piece of American Literature to ever be composed. This work, widely known as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, essentially follows young Huck on a series of adventures and experiences with his close friend (and runaway slave), Jim, as they ...
- 1006: A Rose for Emily: Fallen from Grace
- ... usage of symbolism, and expert utilization of foreshadowing that earned both William Faulkner and "A Rose for Emily" their places among the classics. Works Cited Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." The Norton Introduction to Literature. By Carl E. Bain, Jerome Beaty, and J. Paul Hunter. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1991: 69-76.
- 1007: Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich": Satire
- ... that represent the "Plutonian's" personalities. "Ourselves Monthly"; a magazine for the modern self-centered, is a Plutonian favourite. To fill their idle days, the Plutonian women are in an endless search for trends in literature and religion. Without the distractions of club luncheons and trying to achieve the "Higher Indifference", the women would have to do something productive. Readers that identify themselves with the class of people the Plutonians represent ...
- 1008: Alice in Wonderland: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense
- ... the best known artists in England, to provide illustrations. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through The Looking Glass were enthusiastically received in their own time, and have since become landmarks in childrens' literature. What makes these nonsense tales so durable? Aside from the immediate appeal of the characters, their colourful language, and the sometimes hilarious verse ("Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/did gyre and gimble in the ...
- 1009: A Farewell to Arms
- ... Farewell to Arms is Truth. I simply cannot believe that these books existed so long without my knowledge of how grand they are. I consider myself to read constantly, more than almost anyone I know, literature and simple, and here in less than a month I read two books that are undoubtedly among the best I have encountered. How many other good books exist that I have yet to read? Am ...
- 1010: The Necklace: A Closer Look at Character
- ... this story could benefit greatly from it. We all must deal with selfishness at some point in our lives. Why not learn from other peoples mistakes , fiction or not. Bibliography De Maupassant, Guy. The Necklace. Literature : An Introduciton to Reading and Writing , Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice Hall, 1995. 3-10.
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