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From: Southwest ReviewWhen Ed Gentry, the narrator of James Dickey's Deliverance, stands over the corpse of the man he has killed with a bow and arrow, he waits for an impulse. “It is not ever going to be known; you can do what you want to;...
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From: Kenyon Review[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, DiBernard interprets Zami as a type of Künstlerroman, claiming it depicts the "portrait of an artist as a black lesbian." However, she emphasizes that, whereas the female...
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From: The New Leader[(essay date 1963) In the following essay, Levertov describes Oppen as a poet whose works represent process rather than artistic completion.] The Materials is the first book George Oppen has published since his early...
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From:Contemporary Popular Writers"Contemporary Native American writers have a task quite different," Louise Erdrich has argued, from that of other contemporary American writers. "In the light of enormous loss, they must tell the stories of contemporary...
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From: The BookmanCharlotte Perkins Stetson, of California, several years ago gave promise of making a unique little niche for herself in literature, when she published in the Nationalist Magazine a subtly satirical poem, called “Similar...
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From: Journal of European Studies[(essay date 1994) In the following essay, Losey explores Levi's use of epiphany in his work, asserting that his "contribution to the epiphanic mode defies traditional notions of influence."] Primo Levi uses a version...
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From: Southern Women Writers: The New Generation[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Neubauer provides an overview of Angelou's life and career and discusses the principal themes in her poetry.] Within the last fifteen years, Maya Angelou has become one of the...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Widdicombe is a freelance editor of college textbooks who lives in Alaska. In the essay below, she examines the mysterious effect of the merciless cold in “To Build a Fire” and in everyday Alaskan life.] The third...
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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: Tamkang Review[(essay date Autumn 1983-Summer 1984) In the following excerpt, Dorsey explores the theme of survival in Hiroshima.] In the fifth year of the atomic age, And yet there have been a number of writers who have taken on...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersMargaret Eleanor Atwood is one of the most prominent writers in Canada. Born November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario, she spent many summers in the northern Ontario and Quebec bush where her father, Dr. Carl Edmund Atwood,...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Sauer has taught poetry and drama at Eastern College in Pennsylvania. In the following essay, he examines Solzhenitsyn's “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and asserts that it is an "essentially Christian...
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From:Twentieth-Century Children's Writers (4th ed.)The publication of Harpoon of the Hunter was significant in the history of Canadian publishing since it marked the first appearance of an Eskimo fiction story published in English. After the tale was serialized in the...
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From:Contemporary Dramatists (5th ed.)In a remarkably prolific period between 1957 and 1965, Harold Pinter established himself as the most gifted playwright in England and the author of a unique dramatic idiom. Popularly labelled "the Pinteresque," Pinter's...
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From: Witness Through Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Kremer explores themes and issues surrounding anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in Potok's fiction. According to Kremer, rather than "focus on the atrocities of the Holocaust...
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From: The Southern Review[(essay date Winter 1997) In the following essay, Lieberman asserts that Muldrow, the main character in Dickey's To the White Sea, "serves as a kind of contemplative mouthpiece for the author and . . . embodies many of...
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From: A Studio of One’s Own: Fictional Women Painters and the Art of Fiction[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, White contends that Atwood consciously contradicted the nature of Canadian literature, which had been rife with stories of survival, breaking free of a grim past, to write...
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From: Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Proffitt and Templin “explore how the narratives presented in accounts of the zombie apocalypse in Romero’s films interrogate the ever-present tension between the role of the...
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From: Weber Studies[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Beran examines Atwood’s use of voice in the novel Lady Oracle (1976) to demonstrate that her work is “extremely sophisticated and complex, functioning both to individuate...
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From: Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Phillips examines Romero’s zombie films as a reflection of the director’s “preoccupation with the unconstrained body as a source of both horror and cultural critique.” ] It...