HISTORICAL LITERATURE

A comparison between Jonathon Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" and Kurt Wimmer's "Equilibrium" and a look at class structure in both media forms. Also, a utopian society as seen through the camera lens and through a writer's perspective will be looked at and discussed.

Women play many roles in life: from mother to leader and from caretaker to deceiver, women are named many of these terms.

Jack Zipes believes that Disney destroyed fairy tales. Here's why he's right.

If you're interested in the ancient world, then be sure to try any of these decidedly excellent historical novels set in ancient Greece.

Should authors write bestsellers or works of historical significance? You decide...

Provides definition and example of the movements in American Literature

An examination of Native American literature such as "The Rez Sisters".

Novel to movie literature-based movies for your classroom with lesson plan details and discussion.

Editors of the International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture (IRCALC) are currently receiving submissions in existing literatures of Africa.

A review of some of the key historical sites in Pocahontas County.

God has constantly brought me in contact with works of literature that have a spiritual nature to them. So I thought I would lay out here the books that I feel most shaped my theology.

The Divine Comedy is an incredibly influential piece of literature, although it is often overlooked. To truly understand it, however, requires a very in depth look.

Better understand humanity through philsophy, religion, literature and history in Comparative Literature and Humanities classes offered at CU.

Looking for a challenging, yet creative and fun way to get your high school students interested in both literature and history?

Historical films have been a hit or miss proposition, at least in modern times. Gladiator, Braveheart, and 300 have been winners. But there have also been a host of losers, such as Alexander, Kingdom of Heaven, and King Arthur.

The search for truth is a function that is innate in most people whether we realize it or not. We turn to literature, the arts, religion, science and other areas of knowledge for these truths...

Moll Flanders is a historical novel which provided an accurate look into eighteenth century Europe through the criminal life and prostitution of Moll Cutpurse and declared Daniel Defoe as the writer who started the genre of novel writing.

Despite her rigid Puritan background, Anne Bradstreet often wrote on subjects in order to encourage those who felt oppressed by those beliefs and make a significant impact on establishing early American literature as a woman writer.

Few books go as in depth on writing historical fiction as Persia Wooley's book. It guides the writer through all the necessary stages in writing and selling your historical fiction piece. You don't have to be a history buff to make money with historical fiction.

The historical, structural, stylistic, and ideological development of writers in West Africa has led to a somewhat negative impact on West African culture.

An evaluation of the importance of history and historical accuracy in historical fiction. The study was done by comparing Don DeLillo's Libra, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

This article compares Niccolo Machiavelli's political work "The Prince" with his classical comedy "Mandragola." It also provides biographical information about Machiavelli himself, and pertinent historical facts about the time period he inhabited.

Ever since man began carving symbols or hieroglyphics into stone, he has had an almost obsessive desire to tell tales, record his experience, and prvoide testimony to his inner or public passions, ambitions, and fears.

A careful reading of the historical subtext in Toni Morrison's Sula reveals a deeper understanding of how Morrison's conceptualizations of identity and self-revelation informs much of the novel's narrative.