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The Monk Information
624 words, approx. 2 pages
 The Monk 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...




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 The Economist (US)
Monk.
04/11/1998: 990 words, approx. 3 pages Jazz giants Mr Misterioso MONK. By Laurent de Wilde. Trans. by Jonathan Dickinson. Marlowe; 214 pages; $22.95. STRAIGHT, NO CHASER. By Leslie Gourse. Schirmer Books; 340 pages; $27. BWA; K16.99 ACCORDING to a jazz joke of the late 50s,...
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 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
For monk
12/16/2001: 833 words, approx. 3 pages Jim Stingl For monk, even dorm can be peaceful By JIM STINGL of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, December 16, 2001 Did you hear the one about the monk who worked in a college dormitory? Insert your own...
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 AP News
Sri Lankan monk slammed for Mercedes
8/18/2007: 633 words, approx. 2 pages COLOMBO, Sri Lanka _ The tale of the Buddhist monk and his shiny, new Mercedes-Benz has fueled a bizarre national drama that has angered Sri Lankans and tainted a group of revered religious leaders with corruption.The monk _ leader of a hawkish Buddhist party in...
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Chinese monks fume over net slurs
8/31/2007: 252 words, approx. 1 pages China's Shaolin Temple has demanded a public apology from an Internet user who claimed a Japanese ninja beat its kung fu-practicing monks in a showdown, a lawyer said Friday.An open letter from the temple posted on the Internet Thursday denied the fight ever took place...



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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