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Washington Irving and American Romanticism
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A 3 page essay that points out the features of Irving's story 'Rip Van Winkle' that illustrate characteristics of American Romanticism. Quotations from the source. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: IrvRom.wps

Washington Irving's 'Rip Van Winkle' / Critical Analysis
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A 7 page paper providing a critical analysis of the Washington Irving work Rip Van Winkle. The writer is concerned with highlighting significant points and also showing the parallels between Rip Van Winkle himself. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Ripvan.wps

Iris Murdoch/A Severed Head
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A 3 page analysis of Iris Murdoch's novel, A Severed Head. In this work, the main character, Martin Lynch-Gibbon, experiences a progression of revelations that compel him to an new awareness of the realities that make up his life. Throughout the book, Murdoch combines the elements of her narration with Freudian psychology, which aids her in portraying Martin's movement from the unconscious to an awareness of reality. No additional sources cited.
Filename: 90head.rtf

Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' / Analysis
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A 19 page paper on Ellison's 'Invisible Man' in which the writer argues in support of the idea that there is a direct link between Ellison's concept of invisibility and the narrator's search for self-identity. The writer also relates the narrator's struggle for identity with the same struggle recognized by black theologians. Nine sources cited.
Filename: Ellison.wps

Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' / Analysis Of Scenes
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A 5 page paper that compares two major scenes in Ellison's Invisible Man--The Battle Royale and the Harlem Riots. This paper contends that not only do these scenes represent black violence inacted against other blacks but they also serve to underscore the narrator's invisibility, two major themes of the novel. No additional references are cited.
Filename: Maninv.wps

Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' / The Meaning Of ‘Invisible'
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A 5 page essay, using the author's own statements, which analyzes the concept of ‘invisibleness' that appears throughout the book. The primary source is cited.
Filename: Invisiman.wps

Isaac Newton vs. William Blake
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An 11 page discussion of the move from the Romantic into the Modern World (transitions from Romanticism to Realism) with a comparison & contrast of Sir Isaac Newton and William Blake complemented by a discussion their differences and similarities. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Blakenew.wps

British Imperialism, Literature And Propaganda
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The literature of Imperialist England included themes based on social Darwinism, the crisis of faith, imperialism, poverty and progress. This 7 page paper explores the issues in Milton's Paradise Lost; Behn's Oroonoko and Swift's Gulliver's Travels that pertain to the cultural context of the British Empire. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: KTenglit.doc

Babel's 'My First Goose' / Jewish Identity
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A 13 page paper looking at this short story by Russian-Jewish writer Isaac Babel in terms of its protagonist's problems with his Jewish identity. The paper concludes that despite Liutov's attempts to disassociate himself from his Jewish intellectual background, Liutov is irrevocably a Jew and irrevocably an intellectual; nothing he can do will make him a true warrior. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: Ibabel.wps

Jean Rhys' 'Wide Sargasso Sea'
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8 pages in length. The extent to which Edward Rochester, in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, was like a Spanish conquistador compels the reader to imagine that the author did a considerable amount of research in order for him to convey such characteristics. History has demonstrated the Spanish conquistador as terribly cruel and heartless individual who proceeded to retrieve whatever his heart desired with an incomparable boldness and tenacity. Like his historical counterpart, Rochester exhibits many of the same inherent traits when it comes to emotional manipulation. The writer draws comparisons between Rochester and the Spanish conquistadors. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Sargasso9.wps