A Short Biography of James Joyce
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A two page biography of the author, together with several very short reviews of stories in his anthology "Dubliners." Bibliography lists five sources.
Filename: KBjoyce4.wps

Alcoholism and Fantasy in the Plays of Sean O'Casey
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An eight page paper looking at three of O'Casey's major works -- Juno and the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman, and The Plough and the Stars -- in terms of the way the playwright intertwines alcoholism and imagination throughout the texts. The paper concludes that in all three of these plays, life is most comfortably lived in an anesthetizing haze of liquor and fantasy because naked reality is too horrible to contemplate. Bibliography lists nine sources.
Filename: KBocasey.wps

Algernon: “The Importance of Being Earnest”
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A 5 page paper which analyzes the character of Algernon in “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde. The paper analyzes him from the perspective of dandyism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAime.rtf

Alienation/Portrait of the Artist/Joyce
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A 7 page research essay that examines the role that alienation plays in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In his novel, Joyce presents a coming-of-age narrative in which the evolution and alienation of his protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, a young man very much like Joyce himself, demonstrates various aspects of Victorian Irish society, but particularly, it shows Stephen's increasing alienation towards organized religion. The thrust of the novel is concerned with how Stephen's alienation comes about and evolves and relates his alienation from organized religion to his artistic nature. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khaljym.rtf

An Analysis of Mrs. Kearney in Dubliners
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This 6 page paper analyzes the character of Mrs. Kearney in "A Mother," one of the stories in James Joyce's collection of short stories, "Dubliners." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: HVKearny.rtf

An Analysis of the Walk in James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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A 7 page analysis of the walk Joyce's character takes through Dublin, a walked detailed in Chapter 5 of Joyce's book. The walk is a coming of age story. This paper examines the individual elements of that story and comments on how they all tie together. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPjoycWl.rtf

An Ecocriticism of the Fiction of John McGahern
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An 8 page paper which provides an ecocriticism of John McGahern’s “Amongst Women,” “Barracks,” and “By the Lake.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAecomcg.rtf

Analysis of the Norman MacCaig’s Poem “Assisi”
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This 7 page report discusses one poem by the Scottish poet, Norman MacCaig (1910-1996). MacCaig has been hailed as one of Scotland’s greatest poets. Balance is always a key point in MacCaig’s poetry, whether it is the balance between light and dark, man and nature, or man with other men. His skills of observation were also often directed toward the nature of identity and how one individual perceives him/herself and others. Such is the case with MacCaig’s poem “Assisi” that was published in his collection titled “Surroundings” in 1966. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: BWmccaig.rtf

Andrew Lang; Storyteller of the Arabian Nights
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This 11 page paper considers the way in which Andrew Lang adopts the role of storyteller in his interpretation of the tales of the Arabian Nights. There were, and still are, many contemporary issues in these tales, and in presenting them in the descriptive and captivating manner that Lang accomplishes we can see not only his love of fairytales and fantasy but also a demonstration of his own life, personality, desires and moral reasoning. The bibliography cites 1 source.
Filename: TElangan.wps