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Papers On British Literature
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Modernism in Eliot and Woolf
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A five page paper showing how T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf consciously defined modernism in their critical essays and employed it in their works. Specific works discussed are Woolf’s “The Metaphysical Poet and Modern Fiction” and “The Mark on the Wall,” as well as Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” and “The Waste Land.” No additional sources.
Filename: KBeliot.wps
Samuel Beckett's 'Happy Days'
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A 5 page character analysis of Winnie in Samuel Beckett's infamous play entitled 'Happy Days.' The writer feels that she represented the self-transgression of loneliness and the mundane emptiness that life can have. Several quotes from the play are used to support this thesis.
Filename: Happyday.wps
Samuel Beckett's Views on Women
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A 5 page paper contrasting Beckett's view of women in his novel Murphy, written in 1938, with that presented in his play Endgame, written in 1955. The paper concludes that after his prolonged stay in France, Beckett became detached from his particularly Irish way of looking at women, but was unable to gain the perspective to see them as anything more than symbols reflecting his own alienation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Sambeck.wps
Applying Salman Rushdie's Concept Of 'Newness' To Winterson And Focault
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This 5 page report discusses Rushdie's 'how newness comes into the world' as applied to the issue of gender stereotypes and both specific and implicit gender roles. The report also examines the relationship between gender and power as applied by Jean Winterson's 'Sexing the Cherry,' and Michel Focault's 'The History of Sexuality.' Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Newness.wps
Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' vs. 'Haroun and the Sea Stories'
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A 5 page paper that compares and contrasts characterization the themes in 'Satanic Verses' and 'Haroun and the Sea Stories' by Salman Rushdie. The writer examines Rushdie's use and placement of phraseology to move the action forward. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Rushdie.wps
Richardson’s “Pamela” and the Epistolary Novel
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A 6 page paper looking at Samuel Richardson’s eighteenth century novel. The paper discusses Richardson’s use of letters and journal entries to advance plot and express characterization, and concludes that the gradual revelation of the plot and characterization in “real time” allows the reader to know what Pamela knows, as she knows it, and thus to grow vicariously along with her. Bibliography lists two sources.
Filename: KBpamela.wps
Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' & Samuel Johnsons 'Rasselas'
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A thesis-orientated, 3 page discussion of the pursuit of happiness in these two classic tales. No Bibliography.
Filename: Clarissa.wps
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