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• Sherwood Anderson's fear of sexuality: horses, men, and homosexuality

  Author:James EllisFrom:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Fall 19933,435 words Article Sherwood Anderson's views on sexuality shaped many of his works. Anderson felt a confused fear of sexuality based upon his recognition of the dual nature of a male's view of the female. The asexual respect and desire for...

• A Separate Peace: The Fall from Innocence

  From: English Journal

  May 19643,352 words Critical essay [(essay date May 1964) In the following essay, Ellis describes how A Separate Peace demonstrates Gene's emotional, physical, and moral evolution from adolescence to adulthood.] To read A Separate Peace is to discover a...

• Fitzgerald’s Fragmented Hero: Dick Diver

  Editor:Marvin J. LaHoodFrom: Tender Is the Night: Essays in Criticism

  19694,102 words Critical essay [(essay date 1969) In the following essay, Ellis argues with critics who think “the motivation for Dick Diver’s collapse is vague” and asserts that the motivation can be found within the novel and can be traced to Diver...

• Wallace Stegner's Art of Literary Allusion: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Faust in 'Maiden in a Tower'

  From: Studies in Short Fiction

  Spring 19802,998 words Critical essay [In the following essay, Ellis examines the life-in-death and death-in-life metaphor in the story “Maiden in a Tower.” The critic also argues that literary reference in this story to The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and...