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Viewing Four Vonnegut Novels Through the Lens of Literary Criticism
November 17, 2009 - 2599 words | Literary Criticism » Kurt Vonnegut
I like Kurt Vonnegut because he’s innovative and unique, his literary voice speaking out of a time period I love, when he “was actually helping to breathe life into a new genre—modern, pop fiction,”[1] according to critic Tom Verde. Even though... Read Article »

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Vonnegut Literary Criticism Humanism Science Fiction Satire Ambiguity Religion Poverty Human Machines
Female Norms and the Patriarchal Power Structure in Shakespeare's Hamlet
November 17, 2009 - 956 words | English » Shakespeare
Socialization is the process by which individuals internalize the mores and norms of the society they live in. It is through this process that the established social order is perpetuated. When individuals fail to accept the beliefs of society as their own, there is... Read Article »

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Shakespeare Hamlet Traditional Female Roles Patriarchy Female Norms Power Structure
"Telepathic Shock" and "The Rush of It All:" Jack Kerouac's Use of Language in On the Road
November 16, 2009 - 4936 words | English » Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac once wrote, “It’s not the words that count but the rush of what is said."  In a graduate class focusing on the origin, art, and development of effective language, choosing a man of letters who, by his own admission, seemingly overlooks... Read Article »

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Jack Kerouac On the Road Beat Generation Effective Language Telepathic Shock The Rush Of It All Jack Kerouac Language Analysis Jack Kerouac
Child Murders in "Medea": Parallel, Past, and Present Use of Child Soldiers
November 13, 2009 - 1450 words | Opinion » Greek Mythology
That wars are fought by the young for the old is a universally known truth. It is an ancient argument, a tired anti-war theme. Tired not in that it is hackneyed or obsolete, but in that its hollering admonitions have for all of time fallen on ears consistently deafened... Read Article »

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War Murder Greek Literature Greek Mythology Child Soldiers Medea Child Murders Present Use Of Child Soldiers
Stamp Paid and the Power of Self-Actualization in Beloved
November 12, 2009 - 2803 words | English » Beloved
A character in Toni Morrison's Beloved whose crucial importance to both the plot and thematic intent of the book is Stamp Paid. He is a character with limited space devoted to him, but whose every action is a catalyst for the book as a whole. He is a highly admirable... Read Article »

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Toni Morrison Beloved Self-Actualization Slavery Race Identity Stamp Paid
Future Hell: Nuclear Fiction in Pursuit of History
November 11, 2009 - 17019 words | English » Fiction
What is a cyclical history? Why does humanity seem doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again? Are we doomed to this machine called fate? What is a soul, and how do I express it? Predicting what futures may lay ahead for humanity if we continue on some... Read Article »

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Future Hell Nuclear Fiction Pursuit Of History Science Fiction Cyclical History Walter MIller Jr Russell Hoban Canticle For Leibowitz Riddley Walker Hegel Dialect Dialectic Nuclear War Apocolypse Artificial Intelligence Wu Tang Clan
Absurdism in Post-Modern Art: Examining the Interplay between "Waiting for Godot" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
November 5, 2009 - 3587 words | English » Absurdism
Post-modern art is permeated by Absurdism. The Post-World War II Absurdist movement centered on the idea that life is irrational, illogical, incongruous, and without reason (Esslin xix). The ‘Theater of the Absurd’, named by theater critic Martin Esslin... Read Article »

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Absurdism Waiting For Godot Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close Post-modern Art Post Modern Modernism Post Modernism
From Comrades to Lovers: "The Hollow Men" and the Broken Homosocial Spectrum
November 2, 2009 - 2523 words | English » Homosexuality
In Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Eve Sedgwick proposes the idea that not only women, but also men, can travel along a social spectrum that ranges from friends to lovers. However, she argues that the male homosocial spectrum is broken up... Read Article »

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TS Eliot The Hollow Men Literary Theory GLQT Theory Homosexuality Homosocial Spectrum
Janet Malcolm and Norman Mailer: Navigating Author, Narrator, and Subject
October 30, 2009 - 3855 words | English » Narration
Janet Malcolm opens her book, The Journalist and the Murderer,[1] with a stringent criticism of journalistic practice: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a... Read Article »

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Janet Malcolm Norman Mailer Narration The Journalist And the Murderer Journalistic Practice
Henry Park's Identity through Selves and Space in Native Speaker
October 28, 2009 - 1905 words | English » Native Speaker
This is how Chang-Rae Lee defines his narrator. It seems that everyone can describe Henry Park: his creator, his father, his boss, his victim of “race treason,” his legend; Henry begins the story with a list of characteristics of his identity written by... Read Article »

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Native Speaker Henry Park Chang-Rae Lee Korean American
"Allows itself to anything:" Poor Tom Familiarizing and Enacting Chaos in King Lear
October 27, 2009 - 4136 words | English » Shakespeare
In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Poor Tom—a figure of madness, poverty, and linguistic play—acts as the personification of the semi-apocalyptic state into which the social world of the play descends. Edgar first appears fully as Poor Tom in Act 3, in the... Read Article »

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Shakespeare King Lear Poor Tom Chaos Allows Itself To Anything Shakespeare
A Contrast of Issei and Nisei as Illustrated by King-Kok Cheung, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Emiko Okori
October 25, 2009 - 881 words | English » Issei And Nisei
Hisaye Yamamoto’s double-telling stories, according to King-kok Cheung, convey “two tales in the guise of one,” one woven from the explicit words of the narrator, the other from the softened and sometimes pointedly silent characters that surround... Read Article »

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King Kok Cheung Hisaye Yamamoto Emiko Okori Sasaragawa Rabbit in the Moon Issei Nisei
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