Essays and Research Papers on (All) Literature

4 pages in length. Loren D. Estleman has a style of writing that was born from the unlikely combination of conventional American writers and historical abstract artists, a coupling that has earned him the well-earned reputation of being a detective novel pro whose writing style is both based in visual imagery and a "traditional, ...

In fourteen pages this paper analyzes the writing style of Tennessee Williams, which was inspired by his own life and the influences of Greek tragedy and prose. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography.

This 9 page report discusses the famous author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and dozens of other novels. The life she led, her upbringing, and the role she played in exposing the humanity of the slaves to the rest of the world are also covered. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A five page paper which looks at the different narrative techniques employed by Toni Morrison in Sula and William Faulkner in As I Lay Dying, showing how both are highly effective in advancing the development of character and plot. The writer also compares these two works to three others, showing the variation of narrative technique ...

During the early eighteenth century saw a dramatic expansion of commerce and trade. This 6 page paper considers how this trend reflected in the writing of the eighteenth century. The works of Daniel DeFoe Jonathan Swift George Lillo and Joseph Addison are quoted. The bibliography cites 6 sources.

This is a 6 page paper discussing the male influences in the life of Adrienne Rich affected her writing. The work of Adrienne Rich is considered some of the most meaningful in feminist literature as it relates to her own intimate struggles for freedom from the male oppression within her life. Born into a household ...

This 9 page report discusses the lives of the young women who went to work at the Lowell, Massachusetts, fabric mills in the mid 19th century. Approximately seventy women worked to produce what they titled “The Lowell Offering: A Repository of Original Articles on Various Subjects Written by Factory Operatives.” Its first issue also carried the banner “This Number Wholly ...

This 3 page paper briefly revisits ideas of what novels are about; and then decides on 3 novels that will endure: “The Things They Carried,” “Maus,” and “Haroun and the Sea of Stories.”

An 11 page paper outlining the perspective of Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich in regard to feminism. Identifies these two authors as two of the most prominent women poets of their generation. Notes a difference in feminist approach, Rich's as one of activism and Plath as a means of introspection. Bibliography lists ...

The things that are most important to James Joyce are his family, community and the Ireland he loved so well. This 10 page paper asserts that in the three stories, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Ulysses and Araby, the setting changes very little. There are different parts that highlight a certain time or place but, ...

A 5 page paper which discusses 'The Courtier' by Baldissare Castiglione, translated by Sir Thomas Hoby, as it relates to neoplatonic love. The works of other renaissance writers are also presented in defining this common focus of the time period. Those works are 'Paradise Lost' by Milton, 'The Asolani' by Peter Bembo, and 'The First Day' by Boccaccio. No ...

A 14 page paper which considers how Kate Chopin was a woman who explored subjects such as miscegenation, divorce, and female sexuality in three short stories, a connection between "A Respectable Woman" and "The Story of an Hour" regarding a woman's growing desire and resulting conflict, and how through all three stories, she may have been expressing ...

A 14 page analytical essay which examines Mark Twain's attitudes about technology, both in his life and in his art, citing examples from such works as "The Bridge Builders," "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," "The Gilded Age," "Life on the Mississippi," "The Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson," and "What is Man?" Bibliography lists ...

A 10 page research paper which examines the historical connection between science fiction and technology. Specifically discussed are how British authors H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and Arthur C. Clarke could have the creative foresight to write about technological innovations before they became accepted realities. Bibliography lists 11 sources.

A 4 page discussion of the blending that is occurring between man and machine. This paper reviews the work of Director David Cronenberg, author Donna Harraway, and philosopher Martin Heidegger. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page paper looking at Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” as an indictment of both technology and industrialism in the nineteenth century. The paper argues that Twain likened Camelot to nineteenth-century America, which he viewed as enraptured with potentially destructive technology whose dangers they did not appreciate. Bibliography lists 6 ...

This 3 page paper looks at this novel by Stephenson and how it impacts one's philosophy of technology. Various issues regarding the problems of technology are explored. No additional sources cited.

3 pages in length. Bradbury envisioned contemporary science teetering upon the dangerous edge of technological advancement for the supposed benefit of global society, predicting how the seemingly innocuous presence of television would set off an unstoppable drift toward an all-consuming technological society. When one considers the notion of a completely machine-dependent world – ...

A 9 page paper on Aldous Huxley's 1932 futuristic novel. The paper discusses Huxley's view that science and technology should serve man, not the other way around, and society should never have to adapt itself to an ideology that does not serve its spiritual as well as its physical and social needs. No sources.

This 3 page paper summarises the main arguments and message of “The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism by Daniel Headrick in the Nineteenth Century”. The bibliography cites 1 source.

Kate Chopin wrote at the turn of the century, toward the end of the Victorian era. This 10 page paper investigates the themes of passion, infidelity, miscegenation and divorce in The Story Of An Hour, A Respectable Woman and Desiree's Baby. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

A 5 page research paper that examines three accounts from early American history written by Bartolome de las Casas, Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Mary Rowlandson. The writer argues that each author sees slaughter, and experiences loss and death. However, what each one perceives is filtered through a cultural prism of that person's consciousness. Therefore, ...

A 5 page research paper/essay that examines the work of writer Dorothy Allison. The writer argues that Allison's feminism cannot be understood out of context form her lesbianism. These two topics are inseparable in Allison's writing because they are inseparable in her life. Looking at how Allison views herself as a feminist lesbian offers considerable ...

This 5 page report is written as speech given by Thucydides tot he assembly of Athens and addressing the action to be taken against the revolting Mitylenians, policy relating to Melos, and the possibility of mounting a conquest of Sicily. No additional sources cited.

This 12 page paper considers the writing style of George Bernard Shaw in his comedies 'Arms and the Man,' 'The Philanderer,' 'Pygmalion,' and 'Man and Superman,' and relates his style to the perspective that the author intended to express a different view of society, to express unconventional ideas and the challenge the standard values ...