Loading… Loading… Is American Psycho A Misogynist Text? INTRODUCTION The essential premise of American Psycho is probably not a sexual one, and to focus on Bateman’s sexuality is to risk missing the point. The caricatured inhumanity of the central character Read more…
Loading… Loading… William Carlos Williams was a rebel. The Red Wheelbarrow is revolutionary for its simplicity. While many of his contemporaries wrote poems that locked up meaning like precious jewels in secret rooms, Williams wrote poems that captured ordinary moments Read more…
Loading… Loading… Poetry must get its hands dirty It is amazing to look at just how much poetry and literature have changed throughout the years. For instance, during the romantic era, why did poets such as Byron sell so well? Read more…
Loading… Loading… The Presentation of Violence The Presentation of Violence in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The different rivers of violence – sexual, domestic, racial, personal — that Read more…
Loading… Loading… Existentialism and Absurdism The present paper undertakes an extensive investigation of Existentialism. The present paper, as such, looks into existentialism from a number of perspectives exploring the various ideologies for the very phenomenon and also it pursues the Read more…
Loading… Loading… Existentialism and Absurdism The present paper undertakes an extensive investigation of Existentialism. The present paper, as such, looks into existentialism from a number of perspectives exploring the various ideologies for the very phenomenon and also it pursues the Read more…
Loading… Loading… Comparative Study of Protagonists – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hamlet It is suggested that in modern literature, the true element of tragedy is not captured because the protagonist is often of the same social status Read more…
Loading… Loading… What Use Does Lodge Make Of Intertexuality In ‘Nice Work’? When answering this question, it should be pointed out that intertextuality as it is commonly understood as a critical theory is little thought as a device which a Read more…
Loading… Loading… Gulliver’s Travels and the Witches “He has gone where fierce indignation can lacerate his heart no more” – these are the epitaphic words of Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels. They are indicative of a career spent contemplating Read more…
Loading… Loading… The Great Gatsby and the American Dream There is no strict definition of the ‘American Dream’ though early in the twentieth century and in many ways still today it has become the term which describes an inherent faith Read more…