A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is a rollercoaster ride through the thoughts and feelings of Stephen Dedalus as he grows from a young boy into a man. The book takes us on a trip into Stephens head and spirals around the many questions he asks himself about life and all the ....

A Prisoner In Her Own Home Comparative Analysis of
A Prisoner In Her Own Home Women were once described as gentle and submissive, which allowed them to be easily controlled by dominant males. Their lives were often bleak and isolated, which in some cases led to depression. In the short stories Eveline and The Yellow Wallpaper, the ma....

Araby
James Joyces Araby Araby demonstrates the autobiographical nature of James Joyces work and provides revealing insights into Joyces own personality, beliefs, character, and perspectives of society. Reading this story is fascinating, for the author exposes h....

Araby Lack of Insight
Readers of "Araby" often focus on the final scene as the key to the story. They assume the boy experiences some profound insight about himself when he gazes "up into the darkness." I believe, however, that the boy sees nothing and learns nothing--either about himself or others. He's not self- reflec....

Babylon Revisited as a Modernism Example
The beginnings of American Literature can be dated back to the early 1600s, when English adventurers and colonists in the New World wrote about their adventures, experiences, and thoughts achieving a level of literature. Since these earlier writings, American Literature has gone trough seve....

Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), A Biography Bernard Malamud was the finest short story writer produced by Jewish culture in America, and was, indeed, one of the classic American writers of short fiction. The five collections of short stories he published in his lifetime---The Magic....

character analyasis
Ever since its publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye has served as a firestorm for controversy and debate. Critics have argued the moral issues raised by the book and the context in which it is presented. Some have argued that Salinger's tale of the human condition is fascinati....

Conventions of Opposition - James Joyce
James Joyce, born in Dublin, Ireland, wrote a series of stories entitled Dubliners in 1905. The collection, not published until 1914, consists of fifteen stories tied together by the themes of paralysis and the consistent poverty-stricken environment of Ireland. He utilized his revolutiona....

Deep Connections Brought Out by the Writing of Virginia Woolf
Modernism was a movement which embraced new creative endeavours taken by writers such as Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. It is during this time period when the style of writing known as stream of consciousness came about, beginning with James Joyce's Ulysses, and followed by Virgini....

Essay on Araby The Shades Of Blindness
Essay on Araby The Shades Of Blindness The use of light and dark imagery in the short story Araby by James Joyce reinforces the themes and the setting of the story. James provides use with an excellent illustration of how people often expect more out of life than just smoke and mirrors. ....

Eveline
Choices! Every human being has to make choices. One must be able to outweigh all factors that are to determine what is best for them. In the short story, Eveline, written by James Joyce, the reader is introduced to the life of a young woman torn between duty and desire, the known and unknown. ....

Eveline by James Joyce
Eveline: Frank or Fate In the short story, Eveline, James Joyce portraits the dilemma faced by an early twentieth century young Irish woman torn between familial obligation and craving for happy life. The main character of the story is a terrified and indecisive girl, Eveline, poised ....

Imagery of light and darkness in Araby
The setting in Araby reinforces the theme and characters by using imagery of light and darkness. The experiences of the boy in James Joyces Araby illustrate how people often expect more than reality can provide and become disillusioned and disappointed. The author uses dark and obscure ref....

James Joyce
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is entirely concerned with the development of its main character, Stephen Dedalus. By comparison with Joyce's earlier version, Stephen Hero [1], we see that he has cut out all....

James Joyces Artistic View of Dublin Life
Joyces modernistic view of Dublin society permeates all of his writings. The Irish experiences account for a large portion of Joyces writings. Stephen Dedalus is sometimes Joyces pseudonym and represents Joyce and his life in Joyces works. Joyce plays a crucial role in the modernist movement....

Jane Eyre
¢ñ. Introduction Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), the third among the five daughters of Patrick Bronte, a Yorkshire clergyman of Irish origin, was the longest living and most prolific of the brilliant three Bronte sisters in English literature. All the daughters of the family seem to have been more ....

Poetry on the Internet
Introduction The interest in poetry is at an all-time high, and much of that interest has to do with the accessibility of poetic materials on the Internet, a vehicle that offers both a wide latitude of choice to browsers and researchers and a curious mixture of attention and anonymity to those who ....

Rape: A Love Story
The Contemporary Literature begins with the World War II until present. Some critics debate whether this period starts in 1945 or in the 1950's. Contemporary writers tend to capture the aspect of modern life through their works using complex themes that represent the violence and the ugliness of l....

Reader-Response Criticism of Araby
Shelly Love Professor Fell English 1102 February, 8, 2006 Reader-Response Criticism of Araby Araby is a short story written by James Joyce which is narrated through the eyes of a young boy whose name is never mentioned. It becomes apparent that the story is probably a per....

semi-colon, the
Few punctuation marks are as misused, misunderstood, and in some cases reviled as the semicolon. For its proper definition and intended use one need only look at the mark itself. Simultaneously half-period and half-comma, the semicolon is intended to show a direct connection between two independen....

style, subject and context of a passage in Telemachus, Ulysses by James Joyce
This essay will highlight a passage from Telemachus of James Joyce's Ulysses and then attempt to analyse that passage under the headings of style, subject and context. Due to the symbolic nature of Ulysses it is important to analyse each line and word, chosen from the text in relation to other t....

The art of Katherine Mansfields short stories
Katherine Mansfield was one of the most famous women writers in the early 20th century. In some sense, she was also the real founder of the literary of the New Zealand nation. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in Oct. 1888. At the age of 14 she went to London to study at Queens College. Du....

The Portrayal of Women in James Joyce's 'Dubliners'
I. Introduction This paper concerns itself with the portrayal of women in James Joyces Dubliners with regard to the two female protagonists of the short stories Clay and Eveline. Maria and Eveline are portrayed as victims of society, home and religious doctrines. Both women are trapped ....

Two Boys Journey for Love
Two Boys Journey for Love Men have been trying to impress women for ages. This idea goes back to the time of knights and chivalry, all the way up to todays gentlemen. Similarly, the boys in James Joyces Araby, and John Updikes A&P are trying to do the same. These two stories tell o....

Ulysses mimics Homer's Odyssey - James Joyce
It is no secret that James Joyce's novel Ulysses mimics Homer's Odyssey. Joyce planned for the novel to be a mock heroic epic; he created characters that resembled Homer's, included Homer's major themes like the quest for a father and the intervention of gods, there are some similar situations in bo....

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