F. R. Leavis is widely considered the most important literary critic of the twentieth century. He is identified with the consolidation of English as a university subject and with the production of an influential map of the English literary...

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, the books, the quarterbacks. His own car...

The scholarship already accumulated on the subject of F. O. Matthiessen may be larger than that on any other American scholar born in the twentieth century. As the collective reminiscences published in the Monthly Review shortly after his ...

Last week, Mr. Dino had assigned us students to read the Newsweek magazine, and hand in homework about some articles he had pointed out. Leafing through it, I found this picture which impacted my eyes: four Chinese guys, all singers, were ...

SOURCE: Goldsmith, M. M. “Mandeville's Pernicious System.” In Mandeville and Augustan Ideas: New Essays, edited by Charles W. A. Prior, pp. 71-84. Victoria, Canada: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 2000. In the followin...

["The Face of Another"] is an intricately contrived fantasy, somewhat wanting in dramatic confrontation of characters, but replete with symbolic devices having to do with the fate of modern man. The story, told in a series of letters and jo...

The story is about a fifteen years old average-teenage girl called Janie Johnson who lives with her parents in Connecticut. She has long curly red hair and looks well, and she is quite popular at her school. Her best friends are called Sa...

SOURCE: Sun, William H. and Faye C. Fei. “Masks of Faces Re-Visited: A Study of Four Theatrical Works Concerning Cultural Identity.” Drama Review 38, no. 4 (winter 1994): 120-32. In the following excerpt, Sun and Fei provide a mixed ass...

Several years following the Vietnam War, Yusef Komunyakaa being a Vietnam survivor himself, details in his poem "Facing It", his emotions while at the Vietnam Memorial. Yusef allows the reader to experience the conflicts of his feelings, in...

Do you know what a factory farm is? It is a place where almost all of the meat and eggs you eat come from. Do you think it's good for us? Of course not. Factory farming causes many problems to our health and pollutes the environment. The l...

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a very interesting tale about a doctor who has become fascinated by mesmerism. The doctor is curious to see what would happen to an individual put under hypnosis while dying. W...

It is common knowledge that most romantic relationships do not work out. Two brief poems that encapsulate the feelings associated with ending a relationship are "Housecleaning", by Nikki Giovanni, and "Finis", by Waring Cuney. Each poem s...

King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (born 1920)--the son of the founder of modern Saudi Arabia--succeeded his brothers Saud, Faisal, and Khalid in guiding a traditional Islamic society through the astonishing economic and social development m...

François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 isn't a very good movie but the idea—which is rather dumb but in a way brilliant—has an almost irresistible appeal: people want to see it and then want to talk about how it should have been worked out...

Failure is almost as unavoidable as death or taxes. At some point in our lives we stumble and fall. But the truth is that failure is necessary before any success can be achieved. Upon closer examination, failure is nothing more than a prece...

Mr. Bojangles says he doesn't believe in God.  His justification is that there is no proof.  However, faith by definition does not rely on logical proof or material evidence.  Faith is a very powerful word and has a broad usa...

Falkland is an island that is as big as New Jersey. It's right next to the South America. It was Spanish territory until 18th century, but when Argentina liberated from Spain, England, Spain, and Argentina wanted this small piece of island....

"The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allan Poe, has baffled readers and critics. Some may see it as an attempt to create a horror story which frightens its readers, while others may focus on the more figurative meanings of ...

FALLEN ANGELS The novel Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers was first published in 1988. The novel is about American soldiers fighting during the Vietnam War. Richie Perry, the protagonist and narrator, joins the army to escape his unc...

Chapter One This whole chapter seems to be in slow motion, also the whole chapter is written as if we already know what is happening. We find out that there is a girl called Caitlin who has been in some sort of accident that the boy caused...

No I do not think that troy is a trouble maker and a user. I think that he is honest and a good friend to Bruce. I think this because Troy needed the money and Bruce was nice enough to give him that money. Although troy did some things that...

In the story Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah tells the story of her life growing up in a prominent and successful Chinese family. Over the course of her life, Adeline has many important life lessons and experiences that illustrate a lot ab...

In the short story "False Gems," the author Maupassant utilizes the concept of irony to contribute to social criticism. In the story Madame Latin states: "What can I do? I am fond of jewelry. It is my only weakness. We cannot change our...

Everyone wants to be known, receive the glory and recognition from their peers. Only certain people reach this plateau and receive the recognition with honor. These several people work at their profession, which are shown to the public...

The novel A Family Apart took place during the Civil War between the years 1854 and 1929. During this time of war many families were poor, due to the many supplies that were needed in battle. They had to work many jobs and liv...