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From:Literature Resource Center[In the following essay, Lilburn, a teaching assistant at the University of Western Ontario, examines how García Márquez uses the conventions of sentimental romance stories to explore deeper themes and even satirize...
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From: Restoration[(essay date fall 2004) In the following essay, Ross suggests that the relative failure of the comedy The Double-Dealer to find a popular audience was in part a result of Congreve's experimentation with using tropes and...
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From: The Nobler Pleasure: Dryden's Comedy in Theory and Practice[Dryden's theories about comedy are the focus of this excerpt.] Dryden wrote or helped write twenty-seven plays. Of these, thirteen are comedies or tragicomedies, and some of the others contain comic episodes. Many of...
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From: American Poetry Review[(essay date September/October 1994) In the following essay, Schulman explores Swenson's treatment of the themes of life, love, and death in her poetry.] The voice of May Swenson combines the directness of intimate...
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From: Pot-Boilers[Bell was a critic of art and literature and a member of the Bloomsbury group, an early twentieth-century circle of English writers and intellectuals whose most prominent member was the novelist Virginia Woolf. His book...
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From:Modern Drama (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"[W]hat on earth do women want?" Dorothy L. Sayers imagines men asking in her 1938 essay "Are Women Human?" Her answer is unequivocal: "I do not know that women, as women, want anything in particular, but as human...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedQuiet as it's kept," which is one of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's favorite African American expressions, is a phrase used by someone who is about to reveal what is presumed to be a secret. Insisting that she is not...
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From:Antipodes (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt is known that Australian poet Kevin Hart is a religious poet and his works contain ideas of negative theology. It is also noted that European philosophy has had some sort of congeniality with his poetry. Harold Bloom...
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From: Macmillan's Magazine[Saintsbury was an English literary historian and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A prolific writer, he composed several histories of English and European literature as well as numerous...
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From: Admired and Understood: The Poetry of Aphra Behn[(essay date 2004) In the following excerpts, Stapleton examines Behn's Poems upon Several Occasions, noting that the book represents Behn's attempt to enter into the public discourse as a serious poet worthy of...
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From: TheaterLike most social activists who believe in theater as an instrument of change, feminists have both claimed and rejected Bertolt Brecht, joining in the critical tug-of-war that has characterized his reception in America...
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From: Victorian Poetry[(essay date winter 1996) In the following essay, Fisher examines Patmore's use of the supernatural in his poetry.] 1 Coventry Patmore, the Laureate of domesticity and married love, the realist poet, a purveyor of...
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From: The Victorian Experience: The Poets[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Harris argues that Meredith's poetry is often misread when critics attempt to analyze it as a coherent body of work. Harris identifies Meredith's "Earth" poems of the 1880s as...
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From: The Edinburgh Review[Shand discusses reasons for Peacock's limited audience in this excerpt from a review of the first collected edition of his works.] Fourteen years ago a novel made its appearance which was more favourably reviewed than...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)``They flee from me'' is a poem both common and strange; Sir Thomas Wyatt as usual employs the traditional courtly setting and its language of love as background to a betrayed lover's lament. Yet these elements are...
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From: Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Kerby-Fulton argues that Julian overcame potential sexist bias against her work by enlisting God and the reader as partners in interpretation.] At the end of the Long Text of...
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From:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 134)In 1847, two texts dealt with the subject S0ren Kierkegaard terms "The Work of Love in Remembering One Dead." This essay reads Emily Bronte's sole novel, Wuthering Heights, through and with Kierkegaard's somewhat radical...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date summer 2006) In the following essay, Innes examines Stoppard as a historical playwright, noting that despite his contemporary popularity, Stoppard's subjects are most often based on past people and events.]...
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From: the Frame: Women's Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Loizeaux compares the usage of ekphrasis, or artistic description, which she regards as traditionally "inhospitable ground for women," in the poetry of Rich and Marianne Moore.]...
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From: Poetry[(review date June 1965) In the following review of The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence, Rich suggests that this collection is essential to understanding the depth and breadth of Lawrence's significance as a major...