Art For Life's Sake
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A 7 page essay discussing the difference between art written for art's sake and art written for life's sake. It particularly discusses Flaubert, Ibsen, Dostoevsky and Yeats, and examines how each of these authors fit into the Romantic tradition of the artist as both spokesperson and iconoclast, and how each of these works discussed represent art created for life's sake. Bibliography lists seven sources.
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Satire and the Enlightenment in Swift and Voltaire
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A five page paper looking at the way these two writers satirize the philosophies of the Enlightenment and their eighteenth-century world. The paper concludes that Swift epitomized the idea that if we all really operated logically, our minds would be in tune with our hearts and we would be compelled by conscience to reform the world accordingly. Voltaire, however, does not reflect any real hope that logic and reason are the answers to humanity's woes. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Wuthering Heights / Pride & Prejudice
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6 pages in length. The differences between the love affairs of Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Darcy and Elizabeth, the characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice are grand and far-reaching. To compare and contrast the way in which these two couples fell in love is to demonstrate the contrarieties between a spontaneous, smoldering romance and one that is born initially out of contempt and antagonism. The writer discusses these differences, as well as draws a conclusion on their ability to represent the passage of love. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Romantic Era Literature / Past & Present
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A 9 page research paper and comparison of Romantic literature authors, with focus on Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Anne Rice and Fannie Flagg. The paper posits that not only did the earlier writers influence the later writers, but that all reject the cannonical view of women's roles of their times and politicize the role of female authorship. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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The Undead Dead in 'Usher' and 'Gracchus'
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A 6 page paper analyzing the way Edgar allan poe and Franz Kafka deal with the subject of the dead who will not die. The stories compared are Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Kafka's 'The Hunter Gracchus.' No additional sources are listed.
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Keats and Garrison; a Comparison
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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the styles of two poets John Keats 'La Belle Da Mesans Merci' and Deborah Garrison's 'She Was Waiting To Be Told'. The ways in which the poems are similar and contrast is discussed using phrases from each to demonstrate the observations made. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Human Happiness & Passion / Montaigne To Mill
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A 14 page paper that utilizes the literature of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries to represent common perspectives about the themes of human happiness, love, passion, and the human condition during varying times in European history. Descartes, Hegel, Hume, Keats, & Marx are among the many authors discussed. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Perkins' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' & Ibsen's 'Doll House'
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In this 6 page essay, the writer compares social oppressions as they relate to the wives in each of these two stories. In each story, the wife was expected to look up to her husband as an 'Ideal-maker'--yet each author uses different techniques and secondary characters to illustrate this point. No Bibliography.
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The Art of Detection in Crispin, Christie, & Carr
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A 5 page paper examining the way these three authors -- and their detectives -- purport to involve the reader in the solution of the crimes but in fact deflect his attention from the very clues he needs. Novels covered are Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, John Dickson Carr's The Emperor's Snuff Box, and Edmund Crispin's The Moving Toyshop. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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