Academic papers on American Literature

A.R. Ammons/4 poems
A 5 page essay that analyzes the similarities in imagery and symbolism between four poems by American poet A.R. Ammons -- So I Said I Am Ezra, Kind, Anxiety's Prosody and The Damned. The writer argues that these poems in each one Ammons employed an...
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The Poetry of Ron Padgett
This 6 page report discusses the contemporary American poet, Ron Padgett. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1942, Padgett is often referred to as a
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Willa Cather: " Paul's Case," A Study in Temperament."
(5 pp.) This story is often used in high school discussions, either as a "jumping off" place for talking about the "choice" of suicide, or an exercise in "cognitive thinking." The writer uses quotes from the story as well as statements ...
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The "dreaming" Of Mice and Men (1937): John Steinbeck
(5 pp) Steinbeck's 1937 novel of Mice and Men is a classic study in lost or unfulfilled dreams. Do we have different dreams at different times of our lives? Is it possible for a group of people to share a dream? Can dreams be...
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Sin And Death In Paradise Lost
Milton, within the second book of Paradise Lost presents an allegory or metaphorical parable to explain the existence of Sin And Death. This 5 page paper explores the use and purpose of the allegory. No additional sources are listed.
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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
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Sanctuary and City of Glass
This 5-page comparative essay examines the works by William Faulkner and Paul Auster. Although initially obscure, the parallels between Temple Drake and Daniel Quinn gradually reveal themselves
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"The Crucible" Asks Difficult Questions
(5 pp) Is it some tragic theme, of humanity, that needs to keep repeating itself--married man has an affair with young girl, destruction follows? Or does literature just reflect the consistent foibles, or "the potholes" in the human road? ...
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Hemingway + Attitude + Women.
(6 pp) The way that Hemingway shows us the two women involved in "The Sun Also Rises, and "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber," demonstrates that as a general species, he really doesn't like them much. In the term of street...
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Nineteenth Century Race and Gender Issues as Presentd in the novels of Lydia Maira Child and Catherine Maria Sedgwicks
(10pp) In a life that spanned almost the whole of the nineteenth century (1802-1880), Lydia Maria Child wrote about and lived within controversy, becoming a "household name" when still relatively young. But that was almost two centuries...
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Neuromancer
Neuromancer
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Truth and Fiction in the Works of Tim O
An 11-page paper detailing the pattern of confusing reality and fantasy in the works of Tim O
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Differences between Eastern and Western Philosophy
(5 pp) It is silly for us to think, that in a page of two we will be able to encapsulate ideas that have taken lifetimes or centuries to form. However we will make the effort to give some basic differences between the two philosophical...
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Liberation and 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'
(5 pp) We often think of liberation in terms of people oppressed in foreign countries, and fighting for their rights. Personal imagination can cause us to fight just as actively, even though initially it may not be as obvious. Such is...
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Dreams Turning into Nightmares for Willy Loman
(5 pp). Much of the Arthur Miller's play The Death of A Salesman, looks at the loss of one man's idea of the American Dream of success, or 'making it.' It occurs to Willy Loman that he is not making it, as he thought he would, neither...
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