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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Kellett has taught Developmental Writing and tutored at the Fullerton Writing Center at California State University. She is currently working towards a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature, with an emphasis on...
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From:Journal of Evolutionary PsychologyPeer-ReviewedFor years writers have dabbled in the psychological mysteries of life. Although one derives from Poland and the other, from the United States, and their works are separated by over twenty years, Stanislaw Lem and...
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From: Modern Drama“I was attracted to Penelope as an image because I had always believed her situation as the wife of Ulysses to be one of the most challenging of Greek mythology.” This statement by Naomi E.S. Griffiths elucidates the...
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From: The Germanic Review(essay date Spring 1984) In the excerpt below, Nelson investigates Hesse's handling of female characters and the Oedipal conflict in Demian.] In the present paper I wish to address myself to the question whether a...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed0. Queen of Pentacles How does one set out for Paradise? How does one explain it, its presence, its absence? Not, perhaps, with vision that can make out only this world. Paradise Lost--first great English epic of...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Williams was previously an instructor at Rutgers University, and is currently a freelance writer. In the following essay, she offers an overview of the psychoanalytic interpretations of Wells's “The Door in the Wall,”...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedForests to the northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out of which fairy stories (or, as they are perhaps better called in...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPopular fantasy and horror author Tanith Lee is typically known for her lurid exotic novels of dark fantasy featuring sorceresses and queens who are powerful but not heroic, whose power is external and unearned. By no...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 90, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI. THE ICELANDIC HOGNI (2) Much critical attention has been paid to the character of Hagen in the Nibelungenlied and much ink spilt in various attempts to reconcile the murderer of the early part of the poem with the...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn their article "The Wounded Healer as Cultural Archetype" Galia Benziman, Ruth Kannai, and Ayesha Ahmad discuss the topos of the wounded healer, a concept of an archetypal dynamic coined by Jung to describe a...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn a 1982 interview, Fritz Leiber stated that viewing San Francisco's Mount Sutro tower with binoculars from his 811 Geary Street apartment made him recall "several" M. R. James stories (Sammon 22). He credits this...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 4, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe primary concern of the present thesis is with the archetypal qualities of The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck constantly uses references and allusions from Greek mythology and Bible. According to Northrop Frye's...