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- 711: The Elusive Form: The Use of Female Characters in "Naked Nude"
- ... of viewing her evolves, providing his epiphany VI. Relationship of female characters VII. Conclusion and restatement of thesis. Bernard Malamud, a leading contemporary Jewish author, skirts between fantasy and reality in his almost allegorical short fiction, teaching the reader a lesson through coinciding elements of beauty and comedy. Venturing away from his usual, inner-city Jewish element, Malamud tackles new challenges of subject and setting in his novelistic collection of short ...
- 712: Leggatt as an Independent Character in Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"
- ... the Craft: Conrad on Ships and Seamen and the Sea. New York: National University Publications, 1976. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Graver, Lawrence. Conrad's Short Fiction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. Karl, Frederick Robert. Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979. Watts, Cedric. A Preface to Conrad. 2nd ed. New York: Longman Publishing, 1993.
- 713: Hemingway's "A Clean Well-Lighted Place": The Concept of Nada
- ... Literature: Reading, Writing, Reacting. Ed. Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers., 1997. 256-259. Hoffman, Steven K. “'Nada' and the Clean Well-Lighted Place: The Unity of Hemingway's Short Fiction.” Ernest Hemingway. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1985. 173-192.
- 714: Edgar Allen Poe's Symbolism of Death in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- ... decay just like the narrator viewed the death of the Ushers. Poe is "alive" in the minds of his readers and they are still horrified by his work. Bibliography 1. Abel, Darrel. Introduction. The Science Fiction of Edgar Allen Poe. By Edgar Allen Poe. Penguin Books, 1976. 2. "death". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 1992 edition. 3. Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. The Viking Press ...
- 715: The Writings of Plato and Dantes
- ... up into three sections: the Canticles, of which there are three; the cantos, and the Rhyming schemes that are broken up into that canto. Genre is what style a text takes on, be it poetry, fiction, tragedy or any other category of text. Form is a tool that Plato was just as guilty of using as any poet. It is the way we bring our word to the audience and is ...
- 716: Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat
- ... deadly long-term effects for yourself and the people around you. Still, Poe's story has another agenda, which informs the reader to caution against pride and gloating. Whichever interpretation you determine of Poe's fiction you may be surprised to find a good moral in his psychotic adventures of the mind.
- 717: Wolf's "The Child By Tiger" and Bowen's "Tears, Idle Tears": The Innocence Of The Child
- ... of Dick Prosser, the main character. An example of this can be found when the children find Prosser's gun in his room. This incident foreshadows the future events of the story: "I was just fiction' to hide this gun away twill Christmas Day"(29). Eventually the reader finds out what Prosser really intends to do with the gun on Christmas; he runs around town shooting everyone. Because the author used ...
- 718: Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today
- ... State With Life In the US Today By Aldous Huxley Prompt: Compare life as Huxley described it in the World State with life in the United States today. For more than half a century, science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. A ...
- 719: Summary of Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"
- ... to use an extreme reality and unfortunately, Connie has to learn the hard way. Works Cited Hurley, D.F. "Impure Realism: Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Studies in Short Fiction Summer, 1991: 371-375. Rubin, Larry "Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Explicator 1981 v42 : 57-60. Piwinski, David J "Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Explicator, Spring 1991 ...
- 720: I, Too, Am America
- ... latter group, so that I can better myself. For every black student who makes that extra effort, that better grade, there will be another person who becomes more enlightened to the facts and not the fiction of black life in America. In the act of improving my mind, I am not only helping myself but furthering the cause for complete equality throughout the nation. As part of America's black youth ...
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