... Book Club's online 'literary expert' for several months in late 2003, answering (mostly American) readers' questions about the novel, sketching an admirably nuanced picture of the novel's reception and continuing resonance by reminding ...
... Golden Eye is published in two parts in October and November in Harper's Bazaar. Carson ill for most of winter. 1941 Reflections in a Golden Eye published in book form. In February, stricken with first cerebral stroke. Initiates divorce ...
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom. Alias Grace is ... quotes from Susanna Moodie's Life in the Clearings (1853), a central but ... Grace; letters from clergymen and others who circulated petitions on Grace's ...
... Marx and Freidrich Engels to Soho, and Marx is known for having settled in The German Hotel, just off Leicester Square. SOHO SQUARE Laid out in the 1680s Soho Square is the home of the offices of Bloomsbury Publishing which was founded ...
... Auschwitz and because of the theological importance of Wiesel's argument ... Oprah Winfrey recommended Night on her daytime television show, Wiesel's ... Germany's defeat in World War I and the fall 13.
... The Metastases of Enjoyment, ĆœiĆŸek points out that this command âEnjoy!â is the precise way in which domination works today: âIn post-liberal societies, [ . . . ] the agency of social repression no longer acts in the guise of an ...
... . J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951; Boston: Little, Brown, 1991) 13; hereafter referenced parenthetically in text by page number. 2. Thus the epigraph to Nine Stories (1953; Boston: Little, 59 Hyakujo's Geese.
... Summer and Smoke and Suddenly Last Summer, it also led to such disasters of misplaced lyricism as the dreadful Camino Real and the dreary The Night of the Iguana. (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, one of Williams's best plays, does not seem to me ...
... no fear, you will do this very well. Only give way to natural joyousness. Let yourself go free; you cannot be vulgar, if you tried ever so hard.' And so the performance came, and went off more easily than I had imagined, as so many ...
... The Brute, and Other Farces. New York: Grove Press, 1958. Bitsilli, Petr M. Chekhov's Art: A Stylistic Analysis. Trans. T. W. Clyman and E. J. Cruise. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis Press, 1983. âââ . âFrom Chekhonte to Chekhov.â In V. Erlich, ed ...
Edgar Allan Poe's the Tell-tale Heart and Other Stories
... analysis are undone by our own somatic performance. As âThe Murders in the Rue Morgueâ concludes, the divergent senses of the word âstamenâ crystallize its irreconcilable oppositions: âstamen, n.; pl. stamens rare stamina, [L., a warp ...
... Center, University of Texas, Austin. 17. Sylvia Plath, correspondence with Brian Cox, Critical Quarterly, University ... Lazarus,â Collected Poems, p. 244â7 and manuscript versions at Smith College Rare Books Collection. In W. B. Yeats' A ...
... Huck's limited vision. One thing is clear. As long as Jim is headed toward Cairo, life on the raft is not ... board the Walter Scott, a capricious stunt that nearly loses them the raft, Jim's only means of successfully achieving his ...
... American Dream. Rather than focus merely on the âcontradiction between the American promise of 'liberty and justice,'â and âthe political and socio-economic disadvantages of the Black Americanâ in Hughes' poetry, Brown opens with an ...
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: A Casebook
... poem that the younger self could not remember began, âWhat are you looking at me for? I didn't come to stay . . .â (3). The line she could not remember went, âI just come to tell you, it's Easter Dayâ (5). Angelou thus opens Caged Bird ...
... Irony in his Novels (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), p. 237, asserts that Dickens' âmost important and extensive use of coincidenceâ is âto create an ironic effectâ and to suggest âfate or design.â See, too, the stimulating chapter on ...
... audible in the roar of city sounds â ( 159 ) . It is precisely this â new world of possibility ... audible in the roar ... native son , â as he refers to himself in the title of his 1955 book Notes of a Native Son . In fact , Baldwin was ...
... Brave New World: Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008, pp. 107â116. Keulks ... Notes and Queries, Volume 51, Number 2 (June 2004): pp. 178â182. Mathisen ... Brave New World, and Aldous Huxley's Later Novels,â Aldous Huxley Annual: A ...
... pocketâ (9.741â42)âand Hamlet pĂšre and Hamlet fils. And Othello. And Iago ... God (âAfter God, Shakespeare has created mostâ [9.1028â29]), but now serves ... episode four of the surfiction. Mr. Bloom is a creation of Stephen's; Bloom's ...
... Henry IV is more likable in Part Two than he was in Part One, he is no longer an active character (he doesn't even appear until the third act). And his place is filled by Prince John, as chilling a character as Shakespeare would ever ...
... Code of Handsome Lake,â in Parker on the Iroquois (1968), 16â19 ... Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull (1993), Chapter 11, esp. 138. 15 ... 2, 4. AnzaldĂșa, Gloria. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San 38 Frederick E. Hoxie.
... plot and to Iago as master plotter. That Iago is a plotter goes without saying. He revels in plots, sees them everywhereâsuspects Othello of wearing his nightcap, suspects, now that he thinks of it, Cassio of lusting for it too, and may ...
... Harlem Renaissance: Depicting the 'New Negro.'â From The 'New Negro' in the ... Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement.â From New Thoughts on the Black ... Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American ...
... line goes, âIf a body meet a body coming through the rye,â and that it is not from a song but from a poem by Robert Burns. This information doesn't make a difference to Holden, and he explains that he keeps ... Catcher in the Rye 161.
... interpretation of Grete's all too brief statement and was assuming that Gregor had been guilty of some violent actâ (120). The âworst interpretationâ here results in the father's condemning Gregor, and so he bombards his scampering son ...
... Hemingway International Conference in Key West, Florida, in 2004. He teaches ... Natural World (1999), and contributed articles on Hemingway's life and work ... Teaching Hemingway's âThe Sun Also Risesâ (Peter L. Hayes, ed.) and Teaching ...
... Blood Meridian.â Language and Literature 20 (1995): 19â33. Carman, Michael Dennis. United States Customs and the Madero Revolution. El Paso: Texas Western P, 1976. Daugherty, Leo. âGravers False and True: Blood ... Free Will on the American ...
... Alice Walker: âEveryday Useâ and Alice Walker: A Stitch in Time. The former is a 26-minute dramatization of the story and the latter is a 22-minute interview with ... Everyday Use': A Summary and Analysis 162 Marcia Noe and Michael Jaynes.
