Love and Time in Three Poems of William Butler Yeats
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This 5 page report discusses the poetry of William Butler Yeats with a primary focus on “Adam’s Curse.” In the vast majority of Yeats’ love poetry he is able to separate a clearly personal experience and emphasize its greater universality in terms of shared emotion and a tone of melancholy awareness that transfixes most people at some point in the midst of their greater experience of love. “Adam’s Curse” is not unique in its ability to express those broad and often disturbing visions of the experience of love and loss. Many of Yeats’ love poems also convey such sentiments and “Never Give All the Heart” and “O Do not Love too Long” are also examined. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Mental Disturbance Of Francie Brady In Patrick McCabe's "The Butcher Boy"
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12 pages in length. If given the choice, Francie Brady would not have chosen the life path upon which he was so violently thrust. In fact, if given the opportunity early in life to develop into a normal, active and loving boy, Francie Brady would have very likely been an outstanding representation of just how wonderful children can be when guided by nurturing, devoted and right-minded parents. However, Francie Brady's life ended up the same way it started out: anything but normal. The equation of a suicidal mother and an alcoholic father set the stage for a boy who occupies equally the role of victim and victimizer as he struggles amidst significant odds to make sense of a life gone terribly wrong. No additional sources cited.
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Modernism in Joyce's "Ulysses"
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A ten page paper showing how Joyce's variations on the form of Homer's "Odysseus" complicate and enrich our understanding of modernism. The paper asserts that Joyce's use of techniques such as stream of consciousness, symbolism, and structural experimentation are consistent with the dissonance of modern life. Bibliography lists eight sources.
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Modernism: James Joyce and Virginia Woolf
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A 12 page paper which examines James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Virginia Woolf’s “To The Lighthouse” in terms of modernist writing. The issue addressed is whether or not the principal subject of modernist writing is writing itself. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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Questions in Irish Literature
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This 5 page paper answers questions, posed by a student, on the books Castle Rackrent, Famine, Dubliners and At Swim-Two-Birds. Many themes are addressed and questions of responsibility are discussed. No additional sources cited.
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Refuting Kearney on Joyce's "A Mother"
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A 5 page essay that argues against the premise taken by Martin F. Kearney's 2001 article on Joyce's short story "A Mother." This article offers a fresh interpretation of this story, as this critic argues that Joyce intended this short story to be read as an historical analogue to real events. Specifically, this critic feels that Joyce meant his story's protagonist Mrs. Kearney should conjure details from the life of real-life Irish patriot Anne Devlin, who participated in Robert Emmet's failed 1803 Dublin uprising. The writer summarizes Kearney's argument and then argues against his position. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Religion and Eveline in Joyce’s “Eveline”
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A 3 page paper which examines the role of religion for Eveline in James Joyce’s “Eveline.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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Rockaby: Explanation in the Perspectives of Heidegger and Descartes
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A 5 page discussion of the philosophical implications of Samuel Beckett's short story "Rockaby", the story of a senile woman in a rocking chair who reminisces on her life as she rocks herself to death. Examines the twentieth century philosophies of William Heidegger and the seventeenth century philosophies of Descartes in relation to Beckett's own philosophies. No additional sources are listed. PProckab.wps
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Romanticism in Scott's "Rob Roy"
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A five page paper looking at the degree to which Walter Scott's novel actually provides an accurate chronicle of Scottish history during the Jacobite uprising. The paper suggests that Scott's work is highly colored by his Romanticism and his Tory sympathies. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Sexuality/Perversity in Bram Stoker’s ‘Fin-de-Siecle’ Horror Story, “Dracula”
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A 4 page paper which examines how Stoker’s use of character doubles, repetition of events, and recurring images help to underscore the theme of boundary crossing and blurring of opposites that allow for moral distinctions, with the emphasis on sexuality/perversity. No additional sources are used.
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Story of an Hour and Eveline
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A paper which looks at the way family relationships are depicted in two short stories, Story of an Hour by Chopin and Eveline, by Joyce. The paper compares the events in the lives of the two protagonists and the different ways in which they respond to the prospect of freedom from domestic reponsibilities. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JLeveline.rtf

Strong Themes in Irish Literature, as Considered by Morgan Llywelyn, Author of “1916”
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A 5 page paper which how the fiction of Morgan Llywelyn examines the conflict between the soul and the body, the destruction wrought by time, and man’s need to find something permanent in the midst of change. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Summary and Analysis of Frank McCourt's Memoir, "Angela's Ashes"
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A 5 page paper which attempts to determine the author's true message, other than those of happiness and misery. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Swift's Use of Irony in "A Modest Proposal"
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This 3 page paper discusses Jonathan Swift's satiric essay "A Modest Proposal" and his use of irony to make his points. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: HVModPrp.rtf

Symbolic Use of Fabric in Literature
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This 5 page paper focuses on two plays—Glaspell's Trifles and Synge's Riders to the Sea—and talks about the meanings of the use of fabric in both plays. Specific information, about the works, is included. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Dead- but Glowing
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(5pp) Compares the James Joyce short story with John Houston's 1987 movie of the same name. Joyce has written a subtle quiet story reflecting the maturing love of two individuals within a historic framework. Distancing this relationship within a time frame and place - the Irish countryside at Christmas --allows us to more readily deal with the intimacy and the varying shifts of love which the story –on the page and on film—present. Bibliography lists 4 sources. SOURCES FOLLOW TEXT
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The Comic and the Intellectual
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This 8 page paper describes the connection between the comic sensibility and intellectualism, using Flann O'Brien's absurdist novel The Third Policeman as an example. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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