READING BOTH LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY

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.

Gothic literature's merits are too often overlooked.

An aspiring actress gets a lucky break and becomes a published author.

This paper discussess focus on the application of both feminist and psychoanalytic theories in the novella, "The Dead" by James Joyce.

An analysis of state sodomy laws and other sex-based regulations in the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Lawrence v. Texas.

Gustave Flaubert's Three Tales, Gertrude Stein's Three Lives, and Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time demonstrate centripetal or centrifugal structures overlaying the linear structure of their respective composite novels.

The United States of America is a melting pot for many different people, from many different ethnicities and cultures. In no state is this more true than in California, where the two particular cultures I studied, Asian-Americans and Mexican-Americans.

Postmodernism can be thought of as a product of changes of our times. A look at postmodern poetry helps us to understand postmodernity and vice versa. Through this understanding, we gain another perspective through which to view our current time period

Ethnographers have difficulty in preventing the inclusions of inherent biases, prejudices, and cultural categorizations when detailing a culture.

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.

Women in African, Indian, and Caribbean Literary Works

This essay explores the impact of the First World War on author PG Wodehouse through analysis of his pre- and post-war novels.

As more and more writers "of color" produce texts and other works of art, they will be incorporated into the literary canon. At the same time, they will forever change the nature of Western literature.

Through the intersection of race, ethncity, gender, and sexual orientation, Moraga understands identity as a social construct and, as a social construct, capable of being reconstructed.

An exploration of the uncanny effects of cannibalism, sex, and tattoing upon postcolonialism generally, and Melville studies specifically.

Reading- thanks to TV and other distractions- is no longer as popular as it once was. In fact, writers today ma7y not be readers. This essay examines some person and popular thoughts on what makes good (and not so good) writers

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

A research paper that considers the possibilty that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lesbian vampire poem Christabel might actually be a veiled confession of homosexual love between Coleridge and Wordsworth.

This article considers how musicology and semiotics can be combined to study popular music texts that represents and improvement over traditional musicological analysis.

Focuses on love in two versions of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" as well as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Presumes that love is, and will always be, a timeless conversation.

Sinclair, the author of such liberal works as The Jungle and The Brass Check, entered the realm of practical application in 1934 by running in the California gubernatorial race...entered the race and implement the End Poverty in California platform.

Popular culture is often viewed as a distraction in the English classroom, but it can be used to advance students' enjoyment of classical literature.