Modernism in Joyce's "Ulysses"
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A ten page paper showing how Joyce's variations on the form of Homer's "Odysseus" complicate and enrich our understanding of modernism. The paper asserts that Joyce's use of techniques such as stream of consciousness, symbolism, and structural experimentation are consistent with the dissonance of modern life. Bibliography lists eight sources.
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Modernism: James Joyce and Virginia Woolf
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A 12 page paper which examines James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Virginia Woolf’s “To The Lighthouse” in terms of modernist writing. The issue addressed is whether or not the principal subject of modernist writing is writing itself. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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Questions in Irish Literature
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This 5 page paper answers questions, posed by a student, on the books Castle Rackrent, Famine, Dubliners and At Swim-Two-Birds. Many themes are addressed and questions of responsibility are discussed. No additional sources cited.
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Rockaby: Explanation in the Perspectives of Heidegger and Descartes
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A 5 page discussion of the philosophical implications of Samuel Beckett's short story "Rockaby", the story of a senile woman in a rocking chair who reminisces on her life as she rocks herself to death. Examines the twentieth century philosophies of William Heidegger and the seventeenth century philosophies of Descartes in relation to Beckett's own philosophies. No additional sources are listed. PProckab.wps
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Romanticism in Scott's "Rob Roy"
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A five page paper looking at the degree to which Walter Scott's novel actually provides an accurate chronicle of Scottish history during the Jacobite uprising. The paper suggests that Scott's work is highly colored by his Romanticism and his Tory sympathies. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Strong Themes in Irish Literature, as Considered by Morgan Llywelyn, Author of “1916”
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A 5 page paper which how the fiction of Morgan Llywelyn examines the conflict between the soul and the body, the destruction wrought by time, and man’s need to find something permanent in the midst of change. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Summary and Analysis of Frank McCourt's Memoir, "Angela's Ashes"
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A 5 page paper which attempts to determine the author's true message, other than those of happiness and misery. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Symbolic Use of Fabric in Literature
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This 5 page paper focuses on two plays—Glaspell's Trifles and Synge's Riders to the Sea—and talks about the meanings of the use of fabric in both plays. Specific information, about the works, is included. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Dead- but Glowing
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(5pp) Compares the James Joyce short story with John Houston's 1987 movie of the same name. Joyce has written a subtle quiet story reflecting the maturing love of two individuals within a historic framework. Distancing this relationship within a time frame and place - the Irish countryside at Christmas --allows us to more readily deal with the intimacy and the varying shifts of love which the story –on the page and on film—present. Bibliography lists 4 sources. SOURCES FOLLOW TEXT
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The Construction and Development of National Identity
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This 16 page paper looks at the way in which national identity's formed and then evolves. The past is an essential component in the formation of national identity so the first part of the paper concentrates on how it is the perception of the past as well as the events which aid in the construct of national identity, to demonstrate this England is used as an example. The second part of the paper then looks at the role literature plays in developing and enhancing national identity. To demonstrate the different ways in which literature can achieve this comparison is made between England and Scotland. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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