MODERNIST LITERATURE

The Modernist thoughts and techniques used by Virginia Woolf in her novel, Mrs. Dalloway.

A paper that discusses the roles of men and women in the literature of authors such as John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc.

Explains why Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is Modernist literature.

This essay compares F. Scott Fitzgerald's "May Day" with Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" in an effort to characterize the Modernist viewpoints on love and romantic relationships.

The endurance of myths in our cultural lives.

This is an essay that I wrote about how a discontinuous narrative, change, and disillusionment with the American Dream all come together to create a modernist outlook at William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily."

Close looks at a few selected stories from the modern era of literature.

A short list of the big names in literature from the Midwest and a discussion of several of the most influential Midwestern novelists of the 20th century: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and Kurt Vonnegut.

A brief overview of the trials Russian literature and press underwent during the beginning of the 20th century.

Flannery O'Connor follows a standard hallmark of post-modern American literature by embracing characters who dwell in a sort of borderlands, in between polarities often offered by mainstream society.

The twentieth century is one marked by growth. Of expansion and self-realization. In many ways it could almost be considered the teen years of the nations life, and as such it was filled with pain and sorrow, mixed with moments of elation and euphoria.

A discussion of Joyce Johnson's Minor Characters and two selected Gregory Corso poems. Both Beat writers perpetuate the very ideology they seek to resist.

The battle over the right to publish James Joyce's maddeningly impenetrable novel, Ulysses, often called the greatest novel ever written, began in 1933 when a copy of the novel was seized by customs officials in New York City.

With the dawning of the twentieth century, a new voice appeared on the forefront: the Modernist woman had not only a strong voice, but many obstacles to overcome.

Modern literature has many distinct defining characteristics. The isolation of major characters and epiphanic moments in stories are two major examples. Jack London's short story "To Build a Fire" exemplifies these Modern tenets.

Ah, required reading, was there ever a more annoying aspect of English class? Fortunately, not every book assigned was utter crap.

This essay aims at briefly demonstrating the origins, premises, complaints, critics, texts and trends of Steven Greenblatt's theoretical framework of literary analysis called New Historicism.

A literary analysis of Orlando, by Virginia Woolf.

A tribute to John Updike.

Take a look at the "lost generation" modernism in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 classic, "The Sun Also Rises."

The novel is Woolf's manifesto in fiction of her unique enterprise to create character beyond the one-to-one mimetic method of conventional Victorian and Edwardian realism.

This short essay explores not only the stereotypes of women, but of African Americans as well. Mainly through the example of literature, I aim to combat and enlighten on the topic.

In the introduction to Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, and Politics, the authors Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins lay out the keynote aim of their book: "To focus on the methods by which post-colonial drama resists imperialism and its effects."