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Born in Panama City on 11 November 1928, under the astrological sign of Scorpio, as he is fond of mentioning, Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico's premier novelists, is the son of Rafael Fuentes Boettiger, a career diplomat and at the time atta...
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The style of Los Golfos is one of a deceptively simple realism. The background is authentic. The industrial and slum areas of Madrid, market places, dance halls, and river banks are areas frequented by the group of boys who form the subject...
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As the social queen of East Coast pop-rock, Carly Simon can be counted on to put out well-tailored product that defines "class" (lots of money tastefully spent) to the industryites and consumers who regard the pop world as a toney horse rac...
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Carly Simon [is] a very beautiful, if very different, album…. [Carly's] style is difficult to pin down. She is a Sarah Lawrence graduate and she unabashedly writes like one. Much more than Randy Newman, who was once carelessly labelled "t...
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SOURCE: Mickelson, David J. “Travel, Transgression, Possession in Mérimée's Carmen.” Romanic Review 87, no. 3 (May 1996): 329-44. In the following essay, Mickelson reads Carmen “as a flirtation with danger encountered during travel....
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SOURCE: “Horace and His Lyre” in Horace the Minstrel: A Practical and Aesthetic Study of His Aeolic Verse, The Roundwood Press, 1969, pp. 1-38. In the following excerpt, Bonavia-Hunt offers evidence that Horace was a musician, that musi...
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SOURCE: "Coleridge's Cristabel and Le Fanu's Carmilla," in Modern Philology, Vol. XL VII, No. 1, August, 1949, pp. 32-8. In the excerpt below, Nethercot points out parallels between Le Fanu's story "Carmilla" and Coleridge's poem "Christabe...
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SOURCE: “Horace as a Lyrical Poet” in The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Horace and the Elegiac Poets, Clarendon Press, 1899, pp. 133-99. In the following excerpt, Sellar examines and rates the merits of The Odes, discusses why there ...
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The European lifestyle often included festivals and rituals of sorts. One of the most prominent was called Carnival, which began as early as January and continued until Lent. Several other festivals were celebrated throughout the year, an...
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SOURCE: Rodd, Candice. “Middle-Class Marital.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5085 (15 September 2000): 24. In the following review, Rodd asserts that A Celibate Season makes pleasurable use of the co-written epistolary form, but judges...
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SOURCE: "Wounded Children," in Listener, Vol. 105, No. 2707, February 26, 1981, p. 288. Below, Kemp reviews The Fate of Mary Rose and discusses Blackwood's style of detached writing about very emotional subjects, particularly wounded childr...
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Caroline Norton's importance lies mainly in her dramatic demonstration that she, like few other Englishwomen of her time, could surmount convention by living as a public figure estranged from her husband, writing fiction and poetry for mon...
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Caroline Gordon visited France twice during the twenties and thirties, in 1928-1929 and again in 1932-1933. She wrote much of her first two novels while living abroad, and she and her husband, poet Allen Tate, took an active part in the so...
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Caroline Kirkland (12 January 1801-6 April 1864), a mid-nineteenth-century New York literary woman of quite comprehensive abilities and ambitions, is known today primarily for three early works that illuminate a distinct phase of the Ameri...
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SOURCE: Tracey, Karen. “Caroline Hentz: Counterplots in the Old South.” In Plots and Proposals: American Women's Fiction, 1850-90, pp. 49-75. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. In the following excerpt, Tracey examines the “d...
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Carolyn Forché's poetic career began when Ingenue magazine published her poem "Artisan Well" in October 1968. In January 1969 that magazine contained a feature article that Forché wrote about her work on the Paramount Studio ...
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SOURCE: Hudson, Sara. Review of The Representation of Women in Fiction, edited by Carolyn Heilbrun and Margaret T. Higonnet. Southern Humanities Review 18, no. 2 (spring 1984): 185-88. In the following excerpt, Hudson considers the utility ...
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Carrie is a terrifyingly lyrical thriller. The director, Brian De Palma, has mastered a teasing style—a perverse mixture of comedy and horror and tension, like that of Hitchcock or Polanski, but with a lulling sensuousness. He builds our ...
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Carrie by Stephen King Born in 1947, Stephen King came of age during an era in which many praised the achievements of science but also feared its potential for destruction. The author himself has noted that the tenor of American life at the...
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Like all the best fantasies, [The Cars that Ate Paris] illuminates the truth with its headlights; the film's title in fact works as a metaphor, and Paris could as well be London, New York, or actually Paris. The erosion of humanity by malev...
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With Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers is an explorer of the southern grotesque, for the ambience of her fiction is always southern, whatever its geographic locale, and her characters are the soli...
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The vocabulary of fantasy has become familiar to the contemporary reader who will find in [Cart and Cwidder] nothing new. North and South of an imaginary kingdom are at war; the names are vaguely Nordic, the setting vaguely medieval. (p. 69...
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Although it was obvious from her early radio play The Ants (1962) that Caryl Churchill could write good dialogue, she had difficulty translating that talent to a stage where she would be noticed. Nevertheless, Churchill has been writing pl...
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In contrast to most first- and second-generation Caribbean writers, Caryl "Caz" Phillips has been singularly successful from early on in his writing career. Few Caribbean writers can claim as Phillips does in a 1991 interview with C. Rosal...
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Casino Royale. An alternative title, I suggest, having never quite known how baccarat is played, would be The Gambler's Vade-Mecum. A Secret Service thriller, lively, most ingenious in detail, on the surface as tough as they are made and ch...
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ESSAY SAMPLE ON "POE'S CASK OF AMONTILLADO"
Poe's "The Cask Of Amontillado"
One of the main themes of Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado is revenge. In this summary theme I intend to demonstrate how dramatic irony is used all alo...
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The Roman statesman and author Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (ca. 480-ca. 575) exerted great influence on the preservation of works of classical literature in Christian monasteries from the 6th century through the Middle Ages...
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SOURCE: "The Castle of Indolence and the Opposition to Walpole," in The Review of English Studies, n.s. Vol. XLI, No. 161, February, 1990, pp. 45-64. In the following excerpt, Gerrard reads The Castle of Indolence as a political poem which ...
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Horace Walpole (1717-1797) invented the Gothic novel in his attempt to blend wildness and imagination of the old romance, in his own words "an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern'' in one step altogether, ...
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."..for we have rights drawn from the soil and sky;
the use, the pace, the patient years of labour,
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this is our country also, nowhere else;
and we shall not be outcast on the world."
John Hewitt, The Colony
For many years the Big ...
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SOURCE: Smith, Gavin. “Body Count.” Film Comment 25, no. 4 (July-August 1989): 49-52. In the following mixed review of Casualties of War, Smith contends that “the film misses out on the opportunity to provoke ideologically.” Brian D...
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The issues of teacher independence and student protest [in The Cat Ate My Gymsuit] are topical, and Marcy, an intelligent and enjoyable adolescent, is an appealing heroine; however, the ending is anticlimactic and unsatisfying … and some ...
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Cat on a Hot, Tin Roof, a 158-page book, by Tennessee Williams is the subject of interest right now. Although Williams published it in 1955, it is still a book of everlasting importance to the author's life. In fact, Williams is...
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SOURCE: "Val Lewton's Cat People," in Cinefantastique, Vol. 12, No. 4, May-June, 1982, pp. 23-7. In the following essay, Turner describes the production history of Cat People. The great days of the horror film had become wistful memories. B...
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Paul Schrader's remake of the 1942 [Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur] classic, Cat People, is no pussycat. Where the original wove a subtle spell, the new version goes for the throat. The difference between the two may well be an indication of h...
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Plot Synopsis: This movie is based on the autobiography of Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), who, before his 21st birthday forged over $4 million in false checks, and posed as an airline pilot, a doctor, and a lawye...
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Catch 22, by Joseph Heller, takes place during the second half of World War II. The main character, Yossarian, is the protagonist of the novel, and he is a captain in the Air Force and the lead bomber in his squadron. The story begins with ...
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J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a remarkable book that gives readers a unique and perhaps gloomy perspective of the 1950's through Holden Caulfield, a cynical and peculiar teenager. Through The Catcher in the Rye Salinger describe...
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SOURCE: “‘As Sacred as Friendship, as Pleasurable as Love’: Father-Son Relations in the Tatler and Spectator,” in History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, The University of Georgia Press, 1994, p...
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SOURCE: Coote, Anna. “Would You Mind?” New Statesman 98, no. 2543 (14 December 1979): 946-47. In the following excerpt, Coote asserts that in Sexual Harassment of Working Women, “MacKinnon's legal analysis gives us some unexpected ins...
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick (28 December 1789-31 July 1867), novelist, was born and lived most of her life at the family estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She was educated both in schools and at home, though her early life was devoted to ...
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SOURCE: A review of Cathedral, in Time, Vol. 122, September 19, 1983, p. 95. In the following review, Gray suggests that Cathedral contains hidden depths of meaning. For years now, the demographics of the American short story have been movi...
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A character in Catherine Gore's Women as They Are (1830) says, "We have perhaps had more than enough of fashionable novels, but as the amber which serves to preserve the ephemeral modes and caprices of the passing day, they have their valu...
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The Russian empress Catherine II (1729-1796), known as Catherine the Great, reigned from 1762 to 1796. She expanded the Russian Empire, improved administration, and vigorously pursued the policy of Westernization. Her reputation as an "enl...
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While scholars in the second half of the twentieth century generally recognize Catherine Macaulay as the first English woman historian, it was not her sex but her politics that made her an important figure in the eighteenth century. As one...
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The Italian mystic St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) was a woman of intense prayer and close union with God. She was also active in political affairs and influenced the return of the papacy from Avignon to Rome. The twenty-third child of ...
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Queen Catherine Parr played a vital role in promulgating Protestantism and humanist learning in Tudor England both by producing and patronizing religious works in the vernacular. Her first work, Prayers or Meditations (1545), was a volume ...
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A question such as this puts all Christians into an uncomfortable and threatening situation. Making us choose between two of the most important foundations of our belief system: worship of God and helping our neighbours. We, as Christians...
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Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), known as Cato the Elder and Cato the Censor, was a Roman soldier, statesman, orator, and author. His stern morality in office as well as in his private life became proverbial. Cato called "the Elder" to di...
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I think that any novel can be only so effective, because usually only the people who share, for the most part, the authors views will read it. Is that not why we read? Insert quotation here. Others read to feel self-righteous outrage. That ...
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