What is enjoyable in Warhol, as usual, is the mixture of humor (conscious or unconscious?) and perversion. Hence the best moments [in I, A Man] are the staircase misunderstanding between Baker and a Mao-capped girl who resists his pressing ...

`I am David' is a book about a boy who begins a physical journey by escaping from a concentration camp and is on the run from them. He also journeys through life, his mind and his emotions. He overcomes many obstacles and his jour...

The story "I am the Cheese", by Robert Cormier, is told from three different perspectives that eventually come together to form the same ending. We see Adam, the main character, as he makes his bicycle journey. We also get to know Adam in...

Federico Fellini, discussing his film I Clowns in the French periodical L'Arc, attributes the disappearance of the clown to the sense of absurdity and disorder which pervades modern life. "The clown," he says, "was always the caricature of ...

The eight short stories in I, etcetera … reflect a vital and restless imagination cooking away in several directions…. The typical Sontag character is intelligent, self-analytical, and suffering from a non-specific form of anxiety or di...

In the novel "I for Isobel", the idea of truth and of lies is a recurring theme that runs throughout the novel. The borderline between telling the truth and lying is something that Isobel finds hard to come to grips with even at a young age...

"I Have a Rendezvous with Death" Alan Seeger was an American poet. He lived during what is known to us as the most crucial time in man's history. The poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death," was actually written during world war one. Without...

Emily Dickinson embraces death with an attitude that contradicts those of the average man. In lieu of fearing death and the ominous power that precedes it, Emily Dickinson welcomes death as a part of the cycle of life-an inevitable force i...

In the same mail as Julie's acceptance to Smith College comes an anonymous note with the menacing reminder: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. Though the weight on Julie's conscience seems to have left her more apathetic than anguished, the n...

In "I measure every Grief I meet," Emily Dickinson uses diction, syntax, imagery, denotation, and tone to convey the strength that the grievous must possess in order to overcome the bleak and oppressive nature of grief. The speaker begin...

SOURCE: "Ironic Perspective and Self-Dramatization in the Confessional I-Novel of Japan," in Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1980, pp. 13-38. In the following essay, Lippit examines the types and major...

Poetry Analysis I saw a man pursuing the horizon (underlined=end of section) I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. ------------------------------------- I was disturbed at this; I accosted the m...

"I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen is a short story that talks about a handicapped child. Emily had to struggle a whole lot on her short life, but at the end she proved to be a very strong child. Tillie Olsen's characterization of Emi...

The woman is seen taking on her chores where she regretfully leaves her poem behind and dutifully folds her husband's giant shirt bringing the arms together. One can visualize a big man in love embracing his wife. Obviously she is affected ...

In the off-Broadway musical "Fantasticks", a song entitled "Round and Round" proclaims, "hold up your mask then it all will be pretty." This song depicts horrible images that transform into beautiful stories wh...

The Jewish poet, novelist, and playwright Isaac Loeb Peretz (1851-1915) was the leader of Yiddishism, a cultural movement dedicated to making Yiddish the national language of Jewish people throughout the world. Isaac Peretz was born in Zam...

SOURCE: Wintle, Justin. “A Pinch of Aji No Moto.” New Statesman 107, no. 2761 (17 February 1984): 23-4. In the following review, Wintle praises A Japanese Mirror, calling it an “engaging, at times disturbing read.” Much has been mad...

Ian Hamilton defined his poems with clarity in the Bulletin of the Poetry Book Society (Summer 1974) when he characterized them as "dramatic lyrics .... the intense climatic moment of a drama," adding that the reader must supply "the prose...

Ian Reid. The Short Story. London: Methuen, 1977. A Discussion. The intrinsic `properties' of the short story have been in debate for well ov...

Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) was an outstanding Spanish-born Moslem thinker and mystic. One of the most prolific writers of the Islamic Middle Ages on the subject of mysticism, he also wrote love poetry. Ibn al-Arabi was from Murc...

Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm (994-1064) was a Spanish-born Arab theologian, philosopher, and jurist whose most important work was a book on comparative religious history. Ibn Hazm was born in Cordova. His father, who was chief minister at the...

[In Icebreaker James Bond is] in Finland and Russia—for more of the same, just colder. This time Gardner's neo-Bond (who's less vividly characterized with every book) is sent by M to join three other agents—a CIA man, a KGB man, and bea...

    The disease I was issued to research is called ichthyosis.  There are several of types of ichthyosis such as Lamellar ichthyosis, Congenital ichthyosiform Erythroderma (CIE), Epidermolytic Hyperkeratosis (EH or EHK),...

That "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them" (Exo...