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The Monk

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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Monk Information
624 words, approx. 2 pages
<i>The Monk</i> is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis that first appeared in 1796. It was written before he turned 20, in the space of 10...


News and Journals
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Kyodo World Service
Hundreds of monks protest against junta in Myanmar
9/17/2007: 383 words, approx. 1 pages
Nearly 400 monks staged a peaceful demonstration in the central Myanmar town of Kyauk Padaung on Monday, showing their discontent on the ruling junta. The monks in Kyauk Padaung, about 600 kilometers north of Yangon, marched peacefully on early Monday morning to...
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Kyodo World Service
2ND LD: Buddhist monks continue peaceful protest marches in Myanmar
9/18/2007: 364 words, approx. 1 pages
(EDS: UPDATING WITH FRESH INFO) Some 400 Buddhist monks staged a march Tuesday in Yangon, apparently to protest against hardships faced by Myanmar's people and the junta's crackdown on a similar protest earlier this month. Meanwhile, in the town of Bago, about...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Montague Summers
14,958 words, approx. 50 pages
In the following excerpt, Summers details the composition, contemporary critical reception, plot, style, sources, translations, adaptations, and literary influence of The Monk. Only those footnotes pertaining to the excerpt below have been reprinted.
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Critical Essay by Gudrun Kauhl
6,191 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Kauhl examines the motif of transgression, as both a psychological and a political fact in The Monk.
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Elliot B. Gose, Jr.
5,548 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Gose undertakes a psychoanalytic survey of The Monk, noting its "unresolved tensions" of "sexual conflict, violated taboos, and self-destructive impulses."
 


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