Hurston and Toomer / Vernacular & Self-Image
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An 11 page paper examining how Zora Neale Hurston's and Jean Toomer's use of the vernacular in their works reflects their own self-concept as black people. Novels discussed are Cane and Their Eyes Were Watching God. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Society And The Individual In Ibsen And Hurston
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A 5 page look at the way the female protagonists of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God respond to society's traditional roles for women, and to what extent these characters are able to overcome these social constrictions to achieve a self-actualized life. No additional sources cited.
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Class Struggle In Four Multicultural Authors
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A 5 page paper looking at the works of James Joyce, Lu Xun, Mahasweta Devi, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer, in terms of how these authors reflect class stratifications within their respective cultures. Stories mentioned are Joyce's 'Araby,' Lu Xun's 'My Old Home,' Devi's 'Breast-Giver,' and Toer's 'Inem.' Bibliography lists two additional sources.
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Building Rounded Characters In The Short Story
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A 6 page look at the way Susan Glaspell, John Updike, William Faulkner, and Guy de Maupassant build realistic and believable characters in their short fiction. Particular stories discussed are Glaspell's 'A Jury of Her Peers,' Updike's 'A & P', Faulkner's 'Barn Burning,' and de Maupassant's 'The Necklace.' Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Characterization Through Conflict In James, Joyce, & Faulkner
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A 5 page paper using Henry James' short story 'A Mirror of Consciousness' as a springing-off point to show how a character's participation in an event which creates a conflict for him, and his response to that event, teaches us not only about the character but about ourselves. The writer primarily discusses 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner as examples of this. No additional sources cited.
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Social Evolution In America Through The Works Of Faulkner & Hurston
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This 8 page paper examines how William Faulkner charted social evolution in America in the person of Ike McCaslin in his 1942 short story, 'The Bear,' and how Zora Neale Hurston similarly described the African-American struggles in white society through the eyes of Janie Woods in her 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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William Faulkner & Toni Morrison's / Modernist & Post-Modernist Literature
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This 4 page research paper explores twentieth-century modernist and post-modernist literature, as reflected in the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Specifically discussed are the style and content with their works with the social, culture and philosophical context of their writings through examination of excerpts from two of their short stories, A Rose for Emily and Recitatif. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Role of Women in Six Classic Literary Works
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A 10 page paper showing this critical issue as demonstrated in the works of Aristophanes, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Cather (Lysistrata, The Apology, The Inferno, The Tempest, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and The Professor’s House, respectively). The paper shows that throughout history, women’s role has been largely seen as procreative, and completely under the domination of the paternalistic authority -- whether it be father, husband, or society. Only as the twentieth century neared do we see women’s roles in society -- and their responsibilities toward it -- becoming commensurate with men’s. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case' vs. Graham Greene's 'The Destructors'
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A 6 page paper on these two stories by Willa Cather and Graham Greene. The paper concludes that Paul's rebellion pits the exquisite against the drab, while Trevor's rebellion ultimately pits meaninglessness against meaning. No sources.
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Good Guys & Rotten Apples in Twentieth Century Detective Fiction
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A 9 page paper analyzing the detectives used in six detective novels of the twentieth century: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, The Emperor's Snuffbox by John Dickson Carr, The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, Guardian Angel by Sara Paretsky, and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. The paper separates the novels into those in which the detectives themselves are moral and trustworthy, and those in which they are not, and explains how the author's social and moral views are reflected in his detectives. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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The Contrasting Worldviews of Walter Mosley and Arthur Conan Doyle
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A six page paper comparing these two writers of detective fiction in terms of the way they reflect their respective societies, and how this affects the moral statements made by their fiction in general. Particular works compared are Conan Doyle's 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' and Mosley's 'White Butterfly.' Bibliography lists four sources.
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Altered States of Reality in Literature
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A 5 page paper discussing the book City of Glass, by Paul Auster and how it has many connections to the main character in, and the story of, Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes. While there are apparently some very obvious references to Quixote in Auster's work, these are not the connections that are generally discussed. The two main characters are quite similar in many ways as they struggle to be free of their inherent constraints. No additional sources cited.
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Truth and Morality in Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Camus
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A four page paper looking at the mutable nature of truth according to these three authors. Specific works covered are Dostoevsky’s “Notes from the Underground,” Nietzsche’s “The Anti-Christ,” and Camus’ “The Fall.” No additional sources.
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A Literary View of the Business World
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A 5 page essay that examines three books that deal with the American business world-- Upton Sinclair's The Jungle; Lewis Sinclair's Babbitt; and William Heffernan's The Dinosaur Club. These books offer three views of the American business world, and also the way in which Americans would like to see themselves and the American Dream. These novels paint a picture that shows the American Dream gone wrong. Instead of the American dictum of fair play and equality, workers are faced with business managers who are unscrupulous, unprincipled, or simply morally lost. No additional sources cited.
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Supporting Actors in “Anna Karenina” and “The House of the Spirits”
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A 6 page paper on the importance of supporting characters in these two novels by Leo Tolstoy and Isabel Allende, respectively. The paper looks particularly at Anna’s husband and lover in Tolstoy’s work, and at Esteban Trueba’s wife and granddaughter in Allende’s, and suggests that these characters serve as a lens through which the main character can be viewed. Bibliography lists one source.
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Classism in Woolf and Stoppard
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A seven page paper discussing social class and its impact on the lives of characters in Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own,' 'Orlando,' and 'To the Lighthouse,' and Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia.' The paper observes that many of Woolf's feminist arguments and all of Stoppard's intellectual ones would have had no meaning to working-class people of the nineteenth century. No additional sources.
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Sir Gawain, Morte D'arthur, & The Romantic Tradition
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A 6 page paper on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as well as Le Morte D'arthur by Thomas Malory. The paper argues that both works are romances, although they reflect the tradition in different ways; the medieval romance genre is defined, and then both stories are analyzed to show how they fit the tradition. Bibliography lists two sources.
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