Essays on Literature
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the American Civil War
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The Image of the Horse and the Fall of Troy in Chaucer’s Triolus and Criseyde
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Let Me Talk with this Philosopher
Edgar's Role in Shakespeare's King Lear
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Discrimination's Double-edged Sword
Bigotry and exclusion in Douglas Turner Ward's Day of Absence.
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John Donne's Metaphorical Voyage
The language of the poet of his age mirrors the language of the Age of Exploration.
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T. S. Eliot Consults the Oracle:
The Sibyl and “The Waste Land”
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Maps, Guidebooks, and Guides in Heart of Darkness
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Jonathan Swift's Satiric Backfire
Is "A Voyage to Laputa" really a progenitor to science fiction, or is it just a disgruntled, if pointed, rant?
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For a short time, sitting there on the stone steps overlooking the valley, I felt as if I were at once both chicken and egg.
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Yes, now you, too, can be a poet with your very own Poetic License!
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Samizdat
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Samizdat—a curious looking and sounding word to speakers of English, perhaps because it is a Russian portmanteau word derived from “sam,” meaning “self” or “by oneself,” and “izdat,” meaning “publishing house.” The term thus means “self publish” or “self-published.” It also was popular within the first real inter-office data network: the photocopier tied to a fax machine.
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Writer Profiles and Interviews
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