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<title>Stephen's Relationship With Religion in Joyce's 'Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stephen Dedalus is a young man lost in the world; he spends the majority of his life in religious schools, divorced and detached from his family and his parents. The heads of the schools, the Fathers, become his real fathers. When in college, he remembers not his family but "Father Arnell... at Clongowes", and his soul becomes "again a child's soul" (116).]]></description>
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<title>Da Vinci Code Revisited, Part 2: The Espouse of Jesus</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For Dan Brown, who caused the millions of those who read his novel Da Vinci Code, to raise eyebrows, or chuckle, or pull the book closer for a better view, Jesus' espouse was Mary Magdalene. I disagree to some degree, because for me, Jesus having a espouse was a potential possibility. Everyone knows that He didn't marry. He couldn't marry. However, had He been given a chance to live longer beyond his age of 33, He could have married and had children. Biblical Scriptures have much to offer as bases and references - and our pure reason and view of reality make us nod in agreement.]]></description>
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<title>Reading Guide for War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This article gives a brief introduction to Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. It also provides a Reading Guide ideal for Book Groups, the interested reader or student.]]></description>
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<title>From Adulteress to Bombshell: The Continuing Relevance of The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:25:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It bears repeating that history repeats itself. Although Arthur Miller's The Crucible is about the Salem Witch Trials in 17th century New England, it is also a biting satire of McCarthyism in the 1950s. Just as colonists tried to save their own skin by accusing community members of witchcraft, American citizens, who were blacklisted as Communists in the late 40s and 50s, accused others in order to save their own reputations.]]></description>
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<title>Life Is Not Futile If You Are Not Macbeth: You Have More Than One Chance on the SAT</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Although Macbeth is not exactly an idol for the ages, given that he committed murder in a crazed pursuit of power, he certainly does have some notable words to impart through the illustrious voice of Shakespeare. Catch this monologue: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!]]></description>
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<title>BOOK REVIEW: THE PEARL by John Steinbeck</title>
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<description><![CDATA[John Steinbeck (1902-1968) is one of America's greatest writers and is a Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1962. I must confess, though, that this is the first time I read a book by him, all thanks to Jzhun who kept on raving about how wonderful a writer John Steinbeck is. I bought my copy of this book for only Php17.00 from Booksale, but certainly this book is worth a thousand more than its price.]]></description>
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<title>Classics Like Romeo and Juliet Adapted for the Screen and the New Great Gatsby Movie and Its Setting</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Classics like Romeo and Juliet being made into movies and the new Great Gatsby movie and what is appealing to a filmmaker about the book's setting. A classic that hasn't been adapted is as common as a film version of the SAT.]]></description>
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<title>A Digital Brave New World That Needs a Dose of Romeo and Juliet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aldous Huxley wrote a treatise in 1958 that explicated how his dystopian vision in Brave New World was coming true. If Huxley felt like that then, imagine what he would say about the world now. The hyper-mediation of computer technology has led to a digitized existence; iPads and iPhones have taken over communication, resulting in much less face-to-face interaction.]]></description>
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<title>Reading Guide for The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This article provides an introduction to Leo Tolstoy's novella The Cossacks, published in 1863. It also provides a Reading Guide ideal for Book Groups, the interested reader or students.]]></description>
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<title>The Best Five Historical Novels Ever Written</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you are new to historical fiction, then this article gives you an insight into some of the best novels within this genre of fiction. The five novels described are chosen based on the author's own opinion, but should provide you with a guide to some of the best historical fiction available.]]></description>
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<title>Deconstructing William Shakespeare's Heroines in Literature</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:59:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Deconstruction is the method of looking at a subject or topic from a point of view as opposed to the popular view. The name mostly associated with this theory is Jacques Derrida. But here we will try to deconstruct the approach towards heroines by William Shakespeare.]]></description>
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<title>There's Something Rotten in the State of Denmark - And It Isn't the Eggs in Our Hamlet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There's a major problem with trust between the characters in William Shakespeare's most famous play - Hamlet. How can you blame them? They're not the most upright, honorable bunch.]]></description>
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<title>The Allure of Wealth in The Great Gatsby</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:25:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The vast majority of popular literature has long revolved around the lives of the rich and powerful. Until recently (the last couple of centuries or so), it was almost exclusively just that. Books and plays about kings and queens, princes and princesses, knights, wizards, famous warriors and a litany of gods and supernatural beings.]]></description>
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<title>Kurtz and His Heart of Darkness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad presents us with two men who are, more or less, polar opposites. Charlie Marlow is a compassionate, humane man with a stockpile of integrity, and he is a lover and pursuer of truth and justice.]]></description>
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<title>The Frailty of Dreams in Of Mice and Men</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:32:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You're still young, so we're sure you still have plenty of dreams. That's not to say that we, your elders (hey - some of us are barely thirty!) have lost the ability to dream or no longer have any good ones.]]></description>
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<title>To Kill a Mockingbird: The Effect of Racist Influences on the Young</title>
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<description><![CDATA[America has a long history of racism. Unless you've spent your entire life with your head under a watermelon, you should be well aware of the negative stereotypes that African Americans have long had to endure, and the discrimination with which they continue to be faced. Believe it or not, there once was a time when they weren't even allowed to take the SAT!]]></description>
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<title>Twelfth Night: Dude Looks Like a Lady</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To this day, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night remains one of his most widely read, performed and adored comedies. Wonder if it has something to do with the cross-dressing. Seriously.]]></description>
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<title>Have Great Expectations and You Will Not Be Disappointed</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:13:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We're sure you're familiar with the concept of a Hollywood ending. If you'd care for a few examples: the guy finally gets the girl, the bad guy gets caught and locked up, good triumphs over evil, you get a perfect score on your SAT. You know - the stuff dreams are made of.]]></description>
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<title>Brave New World Gives Sleep-Teaching a Bad Name</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:01:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You may have experienced a phenomenon known as 'sleep-teaching' in some of your classes. In your case, however, this probably involved your forehead drooping and gradually coming to rest against your desk as your teacher droned on and on from the front of the classroom about the importance of doing well on your SAT. In Huxley's Brave New World, the term means something a little different.]]></description>
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<title>Animal Farm Makes Politics Seem Almost Interesting</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:00:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sorry to interrupt - we're sure you're probably in the middle of watching an old VHS (VH-what now?) tape of the 1988 Vice Presidential debate. Or perhaps you're simply catching up on all those saved DVR recordings of C-Span programming.]]></description>
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<title>'Fear Itself' In The Diary of Anne Frank</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:58:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of fantastic novels, essays and other writings have been penned about Nazi Germany. Gruesome, shocking portrayals of what went on in the concentration camps, how many lives were lost, the aftermath and prospect of dealing with indescribable grief that followed. But The Diary of Anne Frank is not about any of those things.]]></description>
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<title>Joris-Karl Huysmans: Against Nature - A Review of the Literature</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:05:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Huysmans', Against Nature, is novel written in Decadent aesthetics and is inspired by many other Decadent authors, like Baudelaire. Huysmans develops a character called Des Esseintes whom has characteristics of a solitary nervous person that reflects on living alone in his house of artifacts.]]></description>
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<title>Great Expectations and the Bildungsroman Genre</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:58:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A look at how Charles Dickens engages with the Bildungsroman genre. The analysis examines the moral and psychological development of this classic novel's protagonist.]]></description>
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<title>Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:44:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A closer look at F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Why The Great Gatsby? F. Scott Fitzgerald's magnum opus is a love story, an allegory and a piece of American history. It has a narrator from the Midwest, an anti-hero who is also a war hero, a unhappily married couple, lavish parties, fancy shirts and flashy cars.]]></description>
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<title>Who Really Wrote Wuthering Heights?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:33:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This article looks at the influences of Emily Bronte. It discusses the possibility that her brother, Branwell Bronte, may have been considerably more influential that previously acknowledged.]]></description>
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<title>The Quest for Love in the Great Gatsby and Great Expectations</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:45:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When done just right, reading about a character's pursuit of love is a favorite ingredient in some of the most beloved tales. Generally, we enjoy seeing passionate characters going after something they want. It can really get us going when what they want is seemingly unattainable.]]></description>
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<title>Losing Innocence in To Kill a Mockingbird and Reflections From Catcher in the Rye</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:43:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why do we love stories about pure, hopeful characters getting stripped of their innocence? One needn't take an "AP Psychology" course to know. The loss of innocence is a relatable theme.]]></description>
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<title>Lord of the Flies: Where Mother Nature and Human Nature Collide</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:42:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You know that guy at the grocery store whose shopping cart was hanging out in the exact center of the frozen food aisle, and he was so oblivious that he wouldn't move it out of your way even though you were clearly in his peripheral vision? Have you ever wondered what it was that kept you from grabbing the nearest bag of frozen pizza rolls and bashing him over the head with it? Your conscience?]]></description>
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<title>The Brothers Karamazov</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:05:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Virginia Wolf once said- "The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading."]]></description>
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<title>Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:07:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Billy Pilgrim became unstuck in time. Billy Pilgrim is,was and always will be a friend of Kilgore Trout, kidnapped by Aliens and a prisoner of war who witnessed the fire bombing of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of the tales of the Planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace.]]></description>
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<title>What Your Favorite American Author Says About You</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:23:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In his best-selling novel High Fidelity, Nick Hornby asserts that what a person likes (books, movies, music, etc.) is more important that what a person is like. No need to get to know someone well, observe her in a variety of situations and truly judge her character; no, all anyone needs to do is find out which actors, authors, musicians and other artists a person likes to truly understand her character and determine if she could be a potential match for friendship or romance.]]></description>
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<title>Party Time: Party Settings in Romeo and Juliet and Great Gatsby Quotes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:51:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ah, parties. Who doesn't love a good party? You've got awesome food, drinks, cool people, loud music and unrestrained hijinks abound.]]></description>
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<title>Hamlet and Romeo Have Tea With Holden Caulfield: Inside Fan-Fiction</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:02:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fan fiction has grown in popularity over the last decade. Gone are the days when the audience believed that a character's fate was strictly in the hands of its creator; now they seem to believe that they can decide the future (or at the very least, an alternate reality) of their favorite characters from film, literature and even history. Writer/comedian/banjo player/playwright Steve Martin probably would not like to have his play Picasso at the Lapin Agile referred to as fan fiction, but it is so similar that there's almost no better definition.]]></description>
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<title>Endurance As a Virtue in The Scarlett Letter - Antigone and To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:00:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Endurance is a virtue that we, as a Westernized society, place a great deal of worth in. To withstand intense pain, strife or just plain unpleasantness-or even muster up the strength to resist an endlessly tempting pint of Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby-is to be respected, appreciated and at times, worshipped. History is littered with examples of those elevated super-humans who demonstrated the capacity to grin and bear it while turning the other cheek.]]></description>
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<title>Manly Men, Or Not: Comparing Masculine Strength and Weakness in Beowulf and Of Mice and Men</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:55:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Societal gender norms tell us men that are supposed to be strong, virile and masculine. They are not supposed to be weak, indecisive or-god forbid-sensitive. At least that's what stereotypes and gender binaries tell us.]]></description>
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<title>The Cautionary Tale of Shakespeare's Macbeth</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:55:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[William Shakespeare's Macbeth contains a lot of life lessons. Number one: Don't listen to stranger bearded women when wandering through a fog. Number two: Never let anyone bully you into doing something you don't want to, even if it's your wife.]]></description>
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<title>The Scheming Tom Sawyer and Hamlet</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:52:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every myth has its trickster character. In the Greek tradition, you've got Hermes. In Roman mythology, there is Mercurius.]]></description>
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<title>7 Good Books to Read - Drama</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:26:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Drama has been with us for a very long time - it's safe to say that it played a major role in ancient Greece 2,500 years ago. Basically, drama can be either a tragedy or a comedy. It is one of the great pleasures in life to get seated in a nice suit / dress with your loved one and let skilled artists tell various stories or struggles from human lives throughout the eons, especially when we can often find out that basic struggles and mistakes we make stay all the same. It will thus be my pleasure to introduce 7 Drama plays you can either read or visit in the theater. Let's proceed!]]></description>
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<title>Book Review: The Anatomy of Influence, by Harold Bloom</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:07:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Harold Bloom, now eighty, returns to a theme that has obsessed him for most of his literary career, what he has described as 'the anxiety of influence'. While The Anatomy of Influence concentrates deeply on poetic influence, the book also gives tantalising autobiographical snippets, most notably the professor's own friendships with a litany of poets.]]></description>
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<title>Weird Fiction: What Is It?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:09:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Weird Fiction had its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. While it is related to horror, it oftentimes incorporates fantastical themes that are decidedly outside the boundaries of what most people would understand as horror. It can sometimes horrify, but the stories are typically crafted to elicit a sense of wonder in the reader and, quite often, it has some of the themes of science fiction and Gothic fiction woven into it.]]></description>
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<title>Gothic Fiction: What Is It?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:44:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gothic fiction and Gothic horror are interchangeable terms. They refer to a style of writing that is heavy on atmosphere and that incorporates romantic elements. Gothic fiction has a unique way of evoking terror that has made it one of the most popular forms of horror in the world. It began in the 18th Century and remains a living genre today.]]></description>
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<title>Monster Madness: Fighting and Facing the Unknown in Beowulf and Lord of the Flies</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:05:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The word "monsters" usually recalls childhood fears of some ugly thing lurking underneath your bed, just waiting for your feet to dangle over the side so it can pull you under. It makes you remember the time when you were afraid so afraid of the dark that you had to dash quickly out of room after switching the lights off just to reduce the chances of that beast in your closet gobbling you up. Like last night.]]></description>
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<title>Losing Their Heads: Inner Beasts in Lord of the Flies and Macbeth Summary</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:05:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[William Golding's classic Lord of the Flies is probably not the best book to read if you want to feel good about humanity or feel comfortable about babysitting a family of little boys all by yourself on a Friday night. It is also not a good beach read for pig lovers. Instead, it is a blunt allegorical look at what can happen when civilization's law and order vanishes, and humanity is left to its own beastly instincts.]]></description>
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<title>Double Double, Toil and Trouble: Assessing the Supernatural Through the Macbeth Summary and Quotes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The supernatural is big these days. The Harry Potter film franchise just wrapped up, Twilight is still on the boy-crazed minds of adolescent girls (and a handful of older woman), while the ever popular True Blood book and TV show series is satisfying the grown-up purveyors of the magical and superhuman persuasion. Vampires, wizards, witches, werewolves: they've completely saturated film and books the past few years, reawakening the popular mainstream desire for the fantastical.]]></description>
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<title>The Literary Benefits of Having an Orphan for A Protagonist in Tom Sawyer and Jane Eyre</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:29:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Orphans are a go-to favorite for some authors. Think Harry Potter or Cinderella. Or perhaps Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist, the boy who never could get enough of that slop his caretakers called porridge.]]></description>
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<title>Girl Power: Sourcing the Feminine Strength in To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes and Antigone</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:25:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to being a girl, To Kill a Mockingbird's Scout is more spice than sugar. In fact, she is particularly sugar-free. No frilly pink dresses, pretty baby dolls, or sweet make-believe tea parties for her.]]></description>
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<title>Forget Romeo And Juliet: Hamlet's Teen-Like Angst a Better Way to Reach Teenager Readers</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:20:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For high school students, the works of William Shakespeare are not the easiest literature to grasp, much less to get them to care about. The first hurdle, of course, is the language. With all the "LOLs," "ridics," and "OMGs" used in a teen's daily vernacular, Shakespearean verse such as "to be, or not to be: that is the question" can sound a lot like Charlie Brown's teachers to the ears of adolescents.]]></description>
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<title>Boys Will Be Boys: Tales of Mischief in Tom Sawyer and Lord of the Flies</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:18:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone loves a good bad boy. Our media-driven society is obsessed with them, those rebels without causes, those paragons of the uber-masculine and virile. Think Charlie Sheen, George Clooney or Russell Crowe.]]></description>
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<title>Teen Queens of Tragedy: Romeo and Juliet's Leading Lady, Hamlet's Ophelia and the Men</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:13:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's not easy being a girl, especially a young girl in love. First, you have to worry about what your parents will think about your new boy. Secondly, you have to figure out how far intimately you want to go with said boy.]]></description>
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<title>Love Stories From Romeo and Juliet to the Catcher in the Rye</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:14:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's pretty easy to name famous works of literature that center around a love story. Troilus and Criseyde, Romeo and Juliet, not to mention the complete works of Jane Austen. The Bible has Adam and Eve, The Iliad and the Odyssey even have a love triangle, consisting of Menelaus, Helen and Paris.]]></description>
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<title>Justice Not Served: Failings of Judgment, Trial in Of Mice and Men and To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:12:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The American idea of justice sometimes operates under a layer of mythology. Our "innocent until proven guilty" principle predicates itself on the idea that those accused of a crime will have a fair trial and would be justly judged by their peers. No puritanical Scarlet Letter rashness here anymore.]]></description>
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<title>Boom and Bust: The American Dream Criticized in Of Mice and Men and Great Gatsby Quotes</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:56:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Apart from being historically classic novels recommended by both literary scholars and high school English teachers, The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men show both sides of the proverbial coin that we call the American Dream. On the shiny pretty side, you've got F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about lavish parties, unbridled wealth and of course, rampant corruption and infidelity.]]></description>
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<title>An Analysis of Fire and Ice Symbolism in Jane Eyre</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:24:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Imagery plays an important role in Jane Eyre. This article explores some of the ways in which images of fire and ice contribute to Charlotte Bronte's novel and the symbolic influences they exert on the narrative.]]></description>
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<title>The Allegory of Social Mobility in The Great Gatsby and The 1920s</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:58:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby had been written as a raise-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-story, starting off with a young boy hell-bent on moving on up in the world, we would have a story that read more like Charles Dickson's Great Expectations. Of course, both are great classic novels that brilliantly explore themes of class, ambition, wealth and good old love-the unrequited, wrong-side-of-the-tracks love, the best kind, really.]]></description>
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<title>Catcher in the Rye, The Crucible, and To Kill A Mockingbird: Books Required in High School</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:55:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's hard to decide exactly which books one can reasonably expect a high school graduate to have read. Some may argue that the major works of Shakespeare are an indispensable part of any student's education, while others counter that only very advanced fifteen-year-olds can be expected to appreciate the nuance of the Bard's language. Some curricula focuses only on works written over a century ago, but is it not valuable to have students read works written in the last century?]]></description>
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<title>Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet: On the Page and on the Stage</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Professors can take a lot of approaches when it comes to teaching Shakespeare. Some professors would teach the Bard's works like they would any other kind of literature: with lots and lots of theory. Economic theory for The Merchant of Venice, racial theory for Othello, psychoanalytic theory for A Midsummer Night's Dream, just to name a few.]]></description>
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<title>Book Review - To Kill a Mockingbird</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:14:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This book was published in 1960 and won the 1961 Pulitzer prize. As soon as you get into the story, you realize that this is not just a fiction story; its much more than that. It's infact a sort of semi-autobiography. It was Harper Lee's only novel published way back in 1960 and yet it seems as relevant today as ever. These sort of books never go out of age. It actually tells a simple story of racial prejudice and discrimination from the eye of a young child.]]></description>
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<title>Reading the Father of Modern Chinese Literature - Lu Xun's Nahan</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:53:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To read foreign literature in the original language is the ultimate goal for many foreign language students. Requiring knowledge of a few thousands of characters for reading Chinese literature, the challenge is particularly immense for students of Chinese. Lu Xun is China's most famous author and is frequently referred to as the "father" of modern Chinese literature. To read Lu Xun is to experience living in China during the decline of the Qing dynasty and the rise of the Republic of China. His characters are poignant, his style is sarcastic, and his stories are unforgettable. While his stories are laced with difficult Chinese phrases, allusions to Chinese Classics, and historical references, his stories are too important not to read. With a little help and a historical introduction, students of Chinese can enjoy his stories and have the satisfaction of reading one of the world's greatest authors in the original language. In this article, I will be exploring my experience with reading Lu Xun in the original Chinese and hopefully will inspire you to do the same.]]></description>
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<title>100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:40:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you first think '100 years of Solitude' it is very likely that you will think to yourself 'if the book's as long as the name, there's no amount of chocolate that could bribe me into reading that.' If you happen to be an English literature student, this may be followed with the definition 'book one should read if one wants to study English at university, but would preferably avoid.' Actually, this is just what I thought when I first heard of it.]]></description>
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<title>Book Review: The Slaves of Solitude, by Patrick Hamilton</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:07:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Patrick Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude is a joy to read, its prose wearing like a deep, comfortable chair. The structure of the novel is beautifully realised, with all the various characters and incidents seamlessly interlocking together. There's not a loose end in sight.]]></description>
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<title>Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: An Exploration of the 'Dark Way'?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 07:42:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA['You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I can't name.' (Dr Jekyll) Stevenson's remarkable novel explores the 'other' face of Victorian respectability, the underbelly of a society 'profoundly committed to the duplicity of life.]]></description>
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<title>Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd: The Tenderness of Enduring Love</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 15:45:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Reading this novel again in 36 degrees of heat in Tunisia was a delightful and slightly unusual experience! As I sat moderately baking in occasional shade, Bathsheba and Oak wrestled out their very pragmatic romance amidst the debris and lives of other characters whose impracticality and passion proves their undoing.]]></description>
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<title>Analysis of Cross Damon</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 09:06:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Richard Wright's novel The Outsider begins with the story of a man, Cross Damon, who continually seems to get the short end of the stick in life. Throughout "Book One: Dread" Cross finds himself in various situations that go from bad to worse fairly quickly. It is obvious to the reader that these circumstances come about as a result of Cross' own wrongdoing, he is the reason why he is always in so much trouble throughout the first part of the book.]]></description>
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<title>Does African-American Literature Exist?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 14:53:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The question of what makes a piece of writing African American literature or not is one that I have never been confronted with before. I have certainly never been challenged to question the entire existence of the genre before taking a course entitled "ENGL 234: Major Writers in African American Literature". On the contrary, frequent evenings spent perusing bookstores have fortified the notion in my mind that the genre is alive and well.]]></description>
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<title>Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse: Woolf's Greatest Elegy?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 14:01:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This review will explore the elegaic promise of Woolf's probably most 'perfect' novel. The novel certainly changed my life as an undergraduate student. Reading Woolf's novel was a revelation and still is today!]]></description>
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<title>Jane Austen: A Literary Analysis of Emma</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 14:34:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a general review of Jane Austen's classic novel Emma. Here I have given my personal analysis of the novel and what Austen's point of view was. It also shows a sort of insight as to who Emma was to not only her readers but to Jane Austen as well. It shows how Austen viewed women in the nineteenth century as not subjects to their men but as independently lived and spoken for.]]></description>
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<title>Charles Dickens: Female Eroticism in The Mystery of Edwin Drood</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 14:59:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Dickens' last unfinished novel and reveals a daring with respect to female sexuality and addiction that is fascinating. The novel is more constrained in terms of setting and I have found very popular with readers and students alike, perhaps because it doesn't have the 'baggy' immensity of novels such a Our Mutual Friend and Dombey and Son. This review focuses in particular on addiction and eroticism.]]></description>
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<title>Harriet Beecher Stowe and Slavery - A Study From an Islamic Attitude</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 13:27:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[My aim in writing this article is threefold. First, I would like to approach Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin with an Islamic outlook, taking its different characters' types, the varieties of moral life and see them through the lens of Islam. Second, I would like to show how Uncle Tom Cabin would look like if Harriet Beecher Stowe learned that the message behind writing her novel has already been tackled by Islam and which has entirely reached its cultural work before any other attempt. Third, I would like to praise Mrs. Stowe's masterpiece for reaching its cultural work, and for successfully combining the two most resonant popular forms of the nineteenth century (the historical and sentimental forms).]]></description>
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<title>I Am Not Prince Hamlet: The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock and Other Meta-Fictional Works</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 10:37:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being meta seems to be all the rage in contemporary fiction. Popular books like The Jane Austen Book Club, The Eyre Affair and The Dante Club all build upon classic works of fiction (the Jane Austen canon, Jane Eyre and the Divine Comedy, respectively). They're not traditional modern adaptations (think the movie Clueless to the novel Emma), nor are they speculative prequels or sequels (such as Wide Sargasso Sea, a speculative prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre); they're something completely unique.]]></description>
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<title>Song of the South, Song of Scotland: To Kill a Mockingbird and Macbeth</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 10:03:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Certain authors or works of literature can become so associated with a particular geographical region that they almost seem to represent them. John Steinbeck, author of boos like Cannery Row and The Grapes of Wrath, is a hero of Salinas, California (there's even a John Steinbeck museum in that town). The French town is Toulouse could not be prouder of Victor Hugo, and his quintessential French novels, The Hunchbank of Notre Dame and Les Miserables.]]></description>
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<title>Big River: Huck and Jim on Broadway</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 10:00:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's not uncommon for popular novels to be made into movies. Almost all of Shakespeare's works have a corresponding film adaption of some kind, although, to be fair, they were originally created for the stage, so the transition is a little more natural. But plenty of works of literature that were never intended to be performed have lives on their own on the silver screen.]]></description>
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<title>What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks: Iambic Pentameter in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 09:49:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The term "iambic pentameter" can seem intimidating to someone unfamiliar with poetry. Anyone with a passing Shakespeare familiarity will likely associate the term with the Bard's work, but may not have a clue what it really means or what purpose it has served to other writers like Geoffrey Chaucer and Alexander Pope. Iambic pentameter is a meter of poetry, utilized by a variety of poets, but made most famous by William Shakespeare.]]></description>
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<title>Book Critique of Hans-Georg Gadamer's Book: The Relevance Of The Beautiful And Other Essays</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:39:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Seeking to define art form in its most encompassing essence, Hans-Georg Gadamer invokes the considerable bestowal from many great minds as he explores the motivation for philosophy, literature, music, and visual arts. Gadamer leans heavily on Plato, Kant, Goethe, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Bach-to name only a few greats contributing to a work concerned with creative-interpretation, symbology, and interpreter-creativity.]]></description>
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<title>Readers and Writers: What Does Reading Huckleberry Finn do to a Student's Writing?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:39:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What should students be reading if they want to become great writers? Jane Austen, Huckleberry Finn, The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock may all be good options.]]></description>
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<title>Catcher in the Rye without Holden - Huckleberry Finn without Huck?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:59:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When a novel has a third-person omniscient narrator, the reader is unlikely to question the legitimacy of anything she reads. It's taken for granted that the narrator is unbiased and telling the truth. Reading novels can be hard enough as it is: the reader has to keep all the characters straight, remember crucial plot points, look for themes and motifs (at least she does if she is studying for the PSAT or a similar exam) and try to understand any literary or historical allusions she may find within.]]></description>
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<title>Minor Characters, Major Impact: A Look at Characters in Hamlet, Macbeth, and To Kill a Mockingbird</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:56:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Minor characters serve an important role in literature. Frequently, it's the minor characters in novels that the reader will connect with and especially enjoy, even more than the protagonist. Mansfield Park's deliciously manipulative Mary Crawford is infinitely more intriguing than the painfully good Fanny Price.]]></description>
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<title>The Emergence of Realism and Naturalism in American Writing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:47:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[American history and literature are interwoven and subsequently the latter reflects the former and since 1865 the country's history has considerably influenced the literature that followed. The distress and frustration after the ravages of the war launched a new era in writing and the highly imaginative and subjective emotional intensity characterized by the former movement of Romanticism ceded to the two important literary movements of Realism and Naturalism.]]></description>
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<title>Northanger Abbey - An Analysis of Jane Austen's Gothic Parody</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:54:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An analysis of how Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey parodies the conventions of popular Gothic novels. The article examines the heroine, Catherine Morland, as well as other characters, such as General Tilney and Isabella Thorpe.]]></description>
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<title>He Was Beat - The Root, The Soul of Beatific</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:34:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don't know, I read a lot. While what I read is quite varied, it does tend to focus around travelling, or a least the concept of it. Even then, it's hard to encapsulate. As Mark Twain said, the man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.]]></description>
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<title>Punjabi Literature Books - The Popular Writers</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:15:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Punjabi is an ancient language that originated from Devnagri, the script of Hindi language. The script used for this language is now known as Gurmukhi and is widely used to create Punjabi Literature books. Ever since when the first literature in this language appeared in 11th century, it has taken several leaps and bounds and has now become one of the prominent literature forms.]]></description>
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<title>Bittersweet Redemption in The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:28:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The concept of redemption is a popular one in literature. Perhaps the very first story of redemption is the story of the Prodigal Son.]]></description>
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<title>Old Money Vs New Money in the Great Gatsby</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:20:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The concept of "new" and "old" money is hard for the average modern reader to understand. In most parts of the country, the term "nouveau riche" isn't often used, and with the onslaught of new Internet millionaires and billionaires in the last decade, the judgment is certainly no longer there. Today's America values the self-made man or woman, the "rags to riches" story.]]></description>
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<title>The Red and the Black - Le Rouge Et Le Noir - Julien Sorel</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:43:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Story of the novel "The Red and the Black" originated from an article related to a death penalty case from a newspaper at Feb 29, 1828. During the Napoleonic Empire era, the red and the black mean the "military" and the "church" respectively. Those are the two ways for the ambitious French young men to walk on.]]></description>
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<title>A List Of Classic Books</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:36:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Interested in a list of classic books? See a recommended list of classic books. ]]></description>
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<title>Reading Flannery O'Connor In A Pseudo-Modern Age</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:35:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[O'Connor's dark and often grotesque characters distinguish themselves as soulless and morbid, whose actions are often cruel, violent and immoral. Yet her character's, regardless of what path they take, are touched by salvation and Divine Providence.]]></description>
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<title>Classic Literature List From The Most Versatile Writers</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:20:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover a list of the best classic literature. Includes resources to locate free online reading and downloads of many classic books.]]></description>
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<title>One Hundred Years of Solitude - Book Review</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:39:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The widely acclaimed story, considered to be the author's masterpiece, was first published in Spanish in 1967, and succeeded so well that it has been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold more than 20 million copies. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, that was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American), and the Cuban Vanguardia (Vanguard) literary movement.]]></description>
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<title>Southworth's Hidden Hand</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:44:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The chapter in The Hidden Hand begins by describing Hurricane Hall as "The spacious and comfortable mansion of which she found herself the little mistress". Nothing is ever as it seems in Southworth's literature. The reader must always be weary of the reality Southworth is trying to portray. In this specific description, Southworth's irony and humor is evident. The setting is a luxurious home with miles of property surrounding.]]></description>
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<title>John Dryden's Love Square</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:34:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Melantha may not have come from royalty but along with her enticement for novelties came an air of class. This is the way in which two men swoon for Melantha leads the reader to believe she is deliberately acting the part of a fop to entice these men. While examining the text it becomes clear that playing the fool comes natural to Melantha and to mask this she takes on a role of sycophancy.]]></description>
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<title>Is Melantha a Woman of Sense?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:42:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dryden uses Melantha specifically to challenge the readers perception of relationships. John Dryden does this to reveal relationship intricacies which may not have been visible before a first reading of Marriage a la Mode. Are Melantha's actions a mere product of her lack of sense? Or are they more deliberate than what first catches the eye? Dryden uses Melantha to bait the reader. The general perception of Melantha widely varies from scene to scene]]></description>
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<title>Melantha The Fop</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:58:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the play Marriage a la Mode by John Dryden, one of the characters that the reader was highly interested in was Melantha. She could be considered a coxcomb who was obsessed with men. In addition to Melantha's interest in men she was also passionate for novelty. It is impossible to satisfy one's every fancy because they will so often contradict each other. Take the classic example of wanting the finest that life has to offer and to have money in the bank at the same time.]]></description>
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<title>Marriage A La Mode</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:46:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To create his greatest comedy, Dryden intertwines two storylines in Marriage a-la Mode. The romance between Palmyra and Leonidas is quite serious and the other characters relations are vital for comic purposes. Melantha is one of the characters that become an instant spectacle to the reader. Comedy is derived in one of two ways: by the language and rhetoric in the text, or from the character itself.]]></description>
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<title>The Wind In The Willows: An Early March Read</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:26:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With March on the horizon, as the dark cold days of February come to a close, we are reminded of the change of the season. With that, it's only proper to talk about a great spring read, The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame.]]></description>
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<title>What Do Titles of To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye and Great Gatsby Say About the Novels?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:18:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that it's wrong to judge a book by its cover, but there aren't similar platitudes advising against judging a book by its title. But what if we did? What does a book's title really tell the reader about the characters or the story that lies inside?]]></description>
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<title>To Quote or Not To Quote: Misinterpreting Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:07:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Shakespeare is frequently quoted, both by true Shakespeare enthusiasts, and people who just assume that quoting Shakespeare will make them sound smart. A lot of people who haven't read a word of Shakespeare have heard about him enough in popular culture to feel comfortable referencing his most well-known works in casual conversation, even if they don't actually have a real understanding of the text they're citing. ]]></description>
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<title>&quot;It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times&quot; - A Tale of Two Cities Analysis</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:02:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. This article analyzes the thoughts of Charles Dickens and his view of the French Revolution as a humanitarian.]]></description>
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<title>Catcher in the Rye, Macbeth, Great Gatsby: What Your Favorite Quotes Say About You</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:03:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Almost everyone has a favorite quote; something they find especially touching, thought-provoking, intelligent, or just funny. Some people's favorite quotes are ironic, some are serious, and some just make absolutely no sense. Previously, true quote-fanatics had only a limited number of ways to display their particular fondness for a quote: t-shits, bumper stickers, maybe the occasional poster.]]></description>
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<title>Pride and Prejudice - Marriage and Personal Value</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:04:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. In this article we will discuss how personal value affects one's marriage by looking at the couples in Pride and Prejudice.]]></description>
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<title>Spiritual Isolation in Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:29:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In analyzing the novel of Carson McCullers' "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," the author uses three Sociological Theories of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman on 'Socialization: The Internalization of Society', Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Eving Goffman and Emile Durkheim's "Social Facts" and "Suicide" to probe on the motives and behavior of characters, the reasons of their loneliness, hatred, love, faith, inner conflict and their moral and spiritual isolation. Only when he has achieved...]]></description>
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<title>Culture and Tradition in the Pre-Colonial Africa in Elechi Amadi's The Concubine</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:28:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The story is a tale of a young woman, Ihuoma, who belongs to Nigeria's Igbo ethnic group. Her plight involves her past life, when she was said to be the wife of the mythical Sea King deity. This gives her great status in the present, but portends doom for any mortal man who seeks to marry her. As the novel progresses, Ihuoma is wedded and widowed three times, as a result of the wrath of the Sea King toward those who would usurp his bride. Though it seems a traditional cautionary tale on the surface, Dictionary of Literary Biography essay that "the strength of The Concubine rests on the fact that it is not folklore but realistic-style fiction, in spite of its strong penetration by the super-natural.]]></description>
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