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From: Schopenhauer on the Character of the World: The Metaphysics of Will[(essay date 1995) In the following excerpt, Atwell attempts to elucidate the origin and meaning of Schopenhauer's controversial proposition that the world is governed by a single underlying idea.] After the emphasis...
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From: Journal of Modern Greek Studies[(essay date May 1987) In the following essay, Thaniel discusses Seferis's association with England and T. S. Eliot and its effect on his writing.] The special relationship which George Seferis (1900-71) developed in...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 184. )[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Solotaroff investigates the characters, themes, and motifs central to Malamud's "folk ghetto" stories, including "Idiots First," "The Cost of Living," and "The Death of Me."]...
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From: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester[In the following essay, Munro examines the publishing histories of two little-known works by Dumas, the historical romance Le comte de Moret and the drama Pietro Tasca. This article is primarily concerned with the...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date summer 1994) In the following essay, Ghaussy examines the French feminist concept of "écriture féminine" in Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, in which Djebar underscores the subjugation and marginality of...
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From: Robert A. Heinlein[(essay date 1978) In the following essay, Sarti traces Heinlein's treatment of gender roles and sexuality in his short fiction.] By the end of the 1950s, Robert Heinlein had established himself as the Dean of science...
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From: University of Dayton Review[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Bishop asserts that the spirituality so central to Dickinson's poetry is characterized by the poet's dismissal of contemporary religious dogma as well as by her decision, "based...
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From: Research in Phenomenology[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Kuiken discusses the problematic relationship between Derrida's and Gilles Deleuze's reading of Martin Heidegger's perspective on Friedrich Neitzsche's eternal return.] If the...
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From: The ExplicatorIn this brief article, Carter explains how the play's religious imagery and its wordplay interact. Most critics of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? are mindful of the play's rich array of religious...
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From: Critique[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Goodman discusses the process by which Burroughs's novel was seized by the U.S. Customs Service in 1959 and subsequently banned as an obscene work.] With its descriptions of...
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From: The Post-Confessionals: Conversations with American Poets of the Eighties[(interview date 1981) In the following interview, Mueller discusses her creative process, her background, and being a female poet in America.] Born in Hamburg, Germany, Lisel Mueller came to this country in 1939 and...
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From: The American Poetry Review[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Stein surveys the poems in which Wright confronts the industrial and economic exploitation of workers and landscape. ] Many of James Wright's early poems introduced uncommonly...
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From: Elizabeth Bowen: The Later Fiction[(essay date 2001) In the following excerpt, Christensen discusses the ways Bowen establishes her characters' individual and group identities.] 'What a slippery fish is identity,' reflects Eva Trout; 'and what is it...
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From: The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Springborg examines Astell's critique of the writings of John Locke, analyzing the differences and similarities between the two writers, as well as providing an overview of...
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From: Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Jordan discusses Montaigne's rejection of both divine and natural law and the implications of that rejection for the possibility of social and political change.] An ancient...
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From: English[(essay date summer 1994) In the following essay, Price comments on the feelings of self-doubt that he says can be discerned in Lovelace's Royalist verse.] Appearing for the first time in 1649, at the end of the Civil...
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From: Theoria[(essay date June 2002) In the following essay, Archard likens Walzer's political theories to the notion that "'good fences make just societies.'"] Introduction In his famous poem "Mending Wall" Robert Frost's...
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From: Studies in Philology[(essay date summer 1995) In the following essay, King reveals an analogy between the vulnerability of the body and the fallibility of language in Tristram Shandy. He then connects Sterne's skepticism about language to...
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From:Contemporary Literary Criticism Select[(essay date November 2004) In the following essay, specially commissioned for Contemporary Literary Criticism, Eder discusses the evolution of Pinter's work and career.] Introduction--The Irreducible Core Harold...
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From: Studies in Philology[(essay date spring 2002) In the following essay, Moore discusses the religious context of seventeenth-century England and Marlowe's use of religious elements in his play.] One day late in July 1670, the notorious...