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From: Oedipus Anne: The Poetry of Anne SextonAnne Sexton 's poetry tells stories that are immensely significant to mid-twentieth-century artistic and psychic life. Sexton understood her culture's malaise through her own, and her skill enabled her to deploy...
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From:Poetry for Students (Vol. 17. )Olds's poems often focus on the parent-child relationship, especially the relationship between the poem's speaker and her father. A study of Olds's poems about the father reveals a cruel man who drank too much bourbon,...
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From: French Forum[(essay date January 1977) In the following essay, Porter traces Michel's inability to replace his "imposed identity" with a mature and responsible self. Instead, according to the critic, Michel regresses, unwilling or...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionWhile Edna O'Brien's first three novels assured her fame, they also established the major topics and themes that have been continued in her short stories: the childhood in County Clare, Ireland, tense relationships with...
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From: The American Poetry Review[(essay date July/August 1997) In the following essay, Ostriker argues that while Ginsberg rejected elements of his Jewish heritage, it still influenced his writing.] I have reverenced Allen Ginsberg--man and poet--for...
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From: Christopher Isherwood: Myth and Anti-Myth[(essay date 1978) In the following excerpt, Piazza emphasizes the authority figures in Isherwood's work.] With matriarchal arrogance, the mother rules Isherwood's first two novels, All the Conspirators and The...
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From: College English[(essay date November 1974) In the following essay, Giles compares Rechy's City of Night with Go Tell It on the Mountain, arguing that Rechy's work has greater significance because it emphasizes homosexuality over...
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From: Theodore Roethke and the Writing Process[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Bogen explores the process of self-discovery and maturation as expressed by Roethke in "The Lost Son" and Praise to the End!, especially as influenced by parental relationships...
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From: PMLA[Here, Boose explores the phases of the marriage ceremony—separation, transition, and reincorporation— as a pattern for the father-daughter relationship.] The aristocratic family of Shakespeare's England was, according...
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From:Gay & Lesbian BiographySince the 1970s Dorothy Allison has written for feminist, lesbian, and gay newspapers and periodicals, but it was the publication of her first novel in 1992 that pushed her into the national spotlight. Bastard Out of...
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From:Feminist WritersIn the three decades since she was hired to operate the box office at Fredericton's Beaverbrook Playhouse, Sharon Pollock has assumed a leading role in the world of English-Canadian drama. Author of a broad range of...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 172. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre. An Autobiography [as Currer Bell] (novel) 1847Thomas DayThe History of Sandford and Merton: A Work Intended for the Use of Children. 3 vols. (short stories) 1783-89Charles...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)"I know now, all these years and plays later, that I always write about solitary confinement." If this realisation only came to Marsha Norman with the anthologising of Getting Out in 1988, it also eluded critics who...
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From: CLA JournalIn the conclusion of her study of twelve novels by black women over the last four decades (No Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Sex in Black Women's Fiction), Gloria Wade-Gayles, speaking about the female characters,...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Ruth Rendell has created three distinct groups of novels as well as a number of gripping short stories, earning warm praise from her peers as well as from an army of fans. Both prolific and artistically exacting, she has...
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From: The Black Scholar[(essay date March/April 1981) In the following essay, Christian discusses how the women of Walker's In Love and Trouble fight to embrace their individual spirits and to overcome convention.] In Love and Trouble, Alice...
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From: Theodore Roethke: An Introduction to the Poetry[(essay date 1966) In the following essay, Malkoff provides an overview of Roethke's life and work, noting developmental influences, recurring themes, and his major publications.] The "lost world" of childhood...
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From: Disability Studies Quarterly[(essay date winter 2004) In the following essay, Richards asserts that in Good Griselle, Yolen offers a nuanced and emotionally honest account of the relationship between a parent and a child with a disability.] Jane...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 99. )Introduction Commentators generally classify Pericles (1606-08) as one of Shakespeare's late plays. Based on a popular sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century romantic tale, the drama recounts the adventures of...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)In 1846 Charles Dickens was travelling abroad when he began to write Dombey and Son. It was a turning-point in his career. His last book, Martin Chuzzlewit, had sold less than any of his previous books; some thought he...