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From: The Other John Updike: Poems/Short Stories/Prose/PlayWhen Updike publishes a novel or a collection of tales, most major journals and many general readers respond. Such is not the case with his poetry. Only literary specialists know that Updike's first book is a volume of...
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From: The Midwest QuarterlyKen Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) portrays sexual mythology as a primary motif in the individual's struggle for consciousness and to become free from institutional oppression in contemporary America. The...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Alfred, Lord Tennyson's life and work almost span the century, and encompass numerous aspects of the Victorian period and its literature. With his sensibility closely responsive to the doubts, needs, enthusiasms, and...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Redgauntlet is one of the most important works of Sir Walter Scott's later career. In it, he returns to a subject raised in Waverley, his first novel: the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. Unlike the 1745 rebellion...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)When Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy commented on the central themes of his work. Courage and compassion in a world of violence and death were seen as the distinguishing...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Louis L'Amour is undoubtedly the most widely read and best selling western author ever. His domination of the popular western for over forty years has helped to develop the genre, which continues to fascinate readers of...
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From: J. R. R. Tolkien[(essay date 1981) In the following excerpt, Crabbe analyzes The Silmarillion, focusing on the narrative structure, plot, themes, and symbols.] The Silmarillion, Tolkien's posthumously published account of the First...
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From:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 50. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:La Chanson de Roland [The Song of Roland] c. 1170 Principal English TranslationsThe Song of Roland (translated by Dorothy L. Sayers) 1957The Song of Roland (translated by Robert Harrison) 1970The...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersClive Cussler writes adventure novels for the young at heart. The hero of all of his books is Dirk Pitt, a cross between James Bond and Jacques Cousteau. Pitt solves mysteries that take place mostly underwater, working...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Jack London was a talented writer so caught up in certain myths that they were part of what destroyed him. The illegitimate son of an impoverished spiritualist, Flora Wellman, he early learned self-reliance. Although he...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)What may be the central virtue of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the of the Rings had its origin in accident, but in an accident corresponding so closely to his life's direction as to seem inevitable. It is the sense of a...
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From: Studies in American FictionIn Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's final hope in the defense of his black client accused of rape is that he may strike a favorable response in his summation to the south Alabama jury by appealing to...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)To the generation of poets that succeeded him, Edmund Waller appeared one of the most important writers of the 17th century. Dryden, in his preface to Walsh's Dialogue Concerning Women, 1691, even said that if Waller had...
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From: Victorians Institute Journal[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, McDermott notes the ways in which Trollope portrays his protagonist as androgynous. McDermott then suggests that the warden’s “feminine” qualities, while occasionally depicted...
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From: Drawn from Life: A Representative Selection of Stories[(essay date 1997) In the essay that follows, Gado offers a detailed examination of the stories collected in Drawn from Life--including "A Mystery of Heroism," "Killing His Bear," "The Open Boat," "The Monster," and "The...
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From: Philologus[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Kyriakou notes the absence of a katabasis, or underworld journey, in the Argonautika despite the frequency of the motif in classical epic (including the earlier Odyssey and the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)I will lay odds that, ere this year expire We bear our civil swords and native fire As far as France. (Henry IV, part 2, V.v. 105) The promise held out by Lord John of Lancaster is fulfilled in Henry V. The play...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Though pockets of resistance remain, it is generally assumed that Henry VI is the unaided work of William Shakespeare and that the plays were written in natural sequence. The Arden edition of Andrew S. Cairncross...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Robert Louis Stevenson was, in the best sense of that 19th-century term, a man of letters. Unlike most of their kind, however, he achieved high distinction as a novelist, as an essayist, and as a poetic miniaturist....
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From: The Massachusetts Review[(essay date Spring 1982) In the following excerpt, Parini traces Gunn's development from “self-confinement into the realm of community and love.”] [Rule and Energy, two] potentially counterdestructive principles,...