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SOURCE: Tucker, Judith E. “The Voice behind the Veil.” Women's Review of Books 6, no. 8 (May 1989): 16-17. In the following excerpt, Tucker evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Doing Daily Battle. Both of these books [Doing Daily B...
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SOURCE: Gearey, John. “Faust II and the Darwinian Revolution.” In Goethe's Other Faust: The Drama, Part II, pp. 14-30. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992. In the following essay, Gearey considers the ways in which Goethe's scien...
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Fay Weldon, who is also a successful stage, radio, and television playwright, established her reputation as a novelist by writing tart, intelligent, and often comic fictions about the lives and natures of women. A satirist with a sharp sen...
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Overcoming Fear
My eyes flew open and immediately began darting about my dark room. I slowly sat up, trying to calm my erratic breathing. I attempted to collect my thoughts, but the second my eyes hit my teddy bear that was laying next to...
Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies, 1 Summary, 3 Essays, 11 Criticisms
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Fear and Desire is a fascinating effort containing a host of ideas, images, and themes which continue to appear in Kubrick's later films. (p. 18) The first theme in Fear and Desire, stated in the poem at the opening, is that the story is ma...
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SOURCE: “Chemical Warfare,” in Sight and Sound, Vol. 8, No. 6, June, 1998, pp. 6–8. In the following interview, Gilliam discusses adapting Hunter S. Thompson's novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for the screen. In 1967—amid the tu...
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[The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), an] absurdist spoof of Dracula, may still be as much ahead of its time as it was 13 years ago…. Whatever may be said about Polanski—and even his admirers have never mistaken him for Albert Schweitze...
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SOURCE: Bell-Villada, Gene H. “Thirty-One Years of Solitude.” Commonweal 128, no. 19 (9 November 2001): 20-1. In the following review, Bell-Villada asserts that The Feast of the Goat, Vargas Llosa's chronicle of the tyrannical reign of ...
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Human Nature and the Opposing Forces That Redeem It
The Federalist Papers provide priceless insight into the spirits of both human government and human nature. In fact, The Federalist Papers repeatedly acknowledge a basic truth of human ...
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The Italian film director Federico Fellini (1920-1993) began as an exponent of poetic neorealism and later became the cinema's undisputed master of psychological expressionism and surrealist fantasy. Federico Fellini was born of middle-cla...
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When Felicia Hemans's Dartmoor won the Royal Society of Literature's poetry prize for 1821, her eldest son exclaimed, "Now I am sure mamma is a better poet than Lord Byron!" Many in the next decades were to take the comparison seriously. F...
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Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor Born William Trevor Cox in 1928 in County Cork, Ireland, to Irish Protestant parents, William Trevor spent his childhood in Ireland, where he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has lived i...
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SOURCE: Thomson, Fred C. “Politics and Society in Felix Holt.” In The Classic British Novel, edited by Howard M. Harper, Jr. and Charles Edge, pp. 103-20. Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 1972. In the following essay, Thoms...
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The Shire is a peaceful place where hobbits have lived for centuries without being disturbed from the outside world besides sparse guests that stop by now and then for rest from their long journeys. Hobbits are litt...
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["The Female Man" may be categorized as serious "women's lib S.F." The author Joanna Russ] has never been one to deny the importance of basic biological facts in determining sex roles; she also understands how easily such facts can be compe...
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SOURCE: Isles, Duncan. “Appendix: Johnson, Richardson, and The Female Quixote.” In The Female Quixote, edited by Margaret Dalziel, pp. 418-27. London: Oxford University Press, 1970. In the following essay, Isles scrutinizes Lennox's lit...
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The Marxist concept of ideology is used to express the way in which the dominant group in a society controls the norms and values of that society at the level of ideas. As they own and direct the production of popular cultural products the...
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The works of Ferdinand Jakob Raimund, written for the "Wiener Volkstheater" (Viennese popular theater), were an important contribution to nineteenth-century European drama. Like Shakespeare and Molière, with whom he has been compare...
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Firdausi (934-1020) was a Persian poet of the first rank in the long history of the Persian civilization. He wrote one of the greatest national epics in world literature. Firdausi was born in the province of Tus, some 12 miles northeast of...
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The project of Ferdydurke is an existential quest for a solution to the problem of form, a problem which is characterized from a variety of perspectives, but which refuses to yield anything but further problems, more intricate questions. Wh...
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[Arrabal's] modernism is strongly colored by the most nightmarish aspects of a certain brand of surrealism. The whole thing is deeply rooted in the history of our times, by the very fact of the writer's personal life (see his novel Baal Bab...
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The achievement of Fernando Pessoa has no parallel in modern literature. Yet, while widely recognized as one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the Portuguese language, he nevertheless remains the most obscure of the acknowledged...
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SOURCE: Slocock, Caroline. “Winning Hearts and Minds: The 1st Casualty Press.” Journal of American Studies 16, no. 1 (April 1982): 107-17. In the following essay, Slocock chronicles the origins and growth of 1st Casualty Press, which wa...
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SOURCE: Natter, Wolfgang G. “What Is War Literature and Why Does it Merit Study?” In Literature at War, 1914-1940: Representing the “Time of Greatness” in Germany, pp. 11-34. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999. In the fol...
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SOURCE: A review of Field Work, in New Republic, Vol. 181, No. 3389, December 22, 1979, pp. 31-3. In the following essay, Pinsky provides a favorable review of Field Work. The poems of Seamus Heaney give several kinds of pleasure: first of ...
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[Gene Wolfe] has shown a consistent growth in the understanding of his art. The three interconnecting novellas of The Fifth Head of Cerberus are his most multiplex work yet. Gene (Rodman) Wolfe 1931– Joe Rush, Langdon's of Barrington; cou...
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SOURCE: Isherwood, Charles. Review of Fifth of July, by Lanford Wilson. Variety (10-16 February 2003): 44. In the following review, Isherwood finds Fifth of July timeless. Written first, Fifth of July is chronologically the last in Wilson's...
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Len Deighton, best known as the writer of celebrated spy-thrillers but now with a mounting reputation as a highly competent military historian, has applied much of the information he accumulated for his earlier book, Fighter …, in this ne...
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SOURCE: Annan, Gabriele. “Rainy Days.” London Review of Books 19, no. 18 (18 September 1997): 15. In the following review, Annan criticizes The File on H. as “amateurish” novel that overindulges in “cultural condescension.” The ...
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SOURCE: A review of Filth, in Observer (London), No. 10,791, August 9, 1998, pp. 14–15. In the following review of Filth, Taylor finds Welsh's Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson a dull and revolting main character. Conceivably, Filth coul...
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"Adapt- that is what you are going to do. Just as birds and animals must do if they are going to survive." (The Village by the Sea, pg 155)
Everyone in this world is brought up with different values and perspective, influenced by the ideo...
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There is something awfully depressing about seeing "Finian's Rainbow" this year this way…. It is not just that the musical is dated. Something lovely and nostalgic could have been made out of old Missitucky for the generation that grew up...
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SOURCE: Eide, Marian. “The Language of Flows: Fluidity, Virology, and Finnegans Wake.” James Joyce Quarterly 34, no 4 (summer 1997): 473-88. In this essay, Eide explores Joyce's “fluidity of language” in Finnegans Wake and asserts t...
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In Fire from Heaven [Mary Renault] continues to work in the vein that has brought her so much success—justifiably, since she has reconstructed her historic period with all the care of an archaeologist…. [Where] she excels is in her clos...
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In The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin addressed the problem of racism that existed in the early 1960s. He gives very powerful accounts of his life growing up in Harlem in the 1930s and 40s. Throughout the book he gives accounts of how w...
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SOURCE: "Late Callings," in Parnassus, Vol. 18, No. 2, February, 1992, pp. 317-27. In the following excerpt, Logan surveys Van Duyn's works, and responds negatively to Firefall. However disorganized or haphazard our habits, we read poetry i...
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[Awkward], idiotic incidents are characteristic of the films of Kon Ichikawa [and] provide a sort of subliminal signature. They erupt in the tremendous decorum of Japanese manners, rather like small volcanoes, threatening stability, poise, ...
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A master of psychic terror returns with [Firestarter], yet another study of strange phenomena guaranteed to enthrall his audience. Two college students sign up as paid guinea pigs for a secret and unknowingly dangerous government experiment...
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"Reads like a whirl wind," says the Chicago Tribune. "Wonderful," says the LA Times. "Keeps the reader hooked from the creepy first chapters... to the vise tightening mid-section and on to the take the money and ru...
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First Love, Last Rites oozes with talent as wayward, original and firm in vision as anything since [Jean] Rhys's early novels about being alone and young in Paris and London. McEwan's characters are adolescents; they bristle with the sudden...
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SOURCE: Lagerberg, Robert. “The Open Frame and the Presentation of Time in Turgenev's First Love.” Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 10, no. 2 (1996): 111-20. In the following essay, Lagerberg discusses the structure of Firs...
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SOURCE: "Vast Roman Saga: Colleen McCullough Tackles Marius and Sulla," in Chicago Tribune Books, October 7, 1990, p. 3. In the following review, Idema offers a generally favorable assessment of The First Man in Rome, though noting its daun...
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SOURCE: "Le premier homme: Camus's Unfinished Novel," in World Literature Today, Vol. 69, No. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 83-5. In the following review, King discusses Camus's literary legacy and the publication of The First Man. When Albert Camus...
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SOURCE: “The Fisher King: Terry Gilliam Melds the Modern and the Mythical,” in American Film, Vol. 16, September, 1991, pp. 50–1. In the following review, Drucker offers an analysis of Gilliam's directing technique in The Fisher King....
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Fitz-Greene Halleck (8 July 1790-19 December 1867), a Knickerbocker poet and man of letters, was born and died in Guilford, Connecticut. Halleck left Guilford at the age of twenty-one and entered into business in New York City. It was ther...
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[The] most interesting quality of [Peter Shaffer's] work is its impersonality. His work has all the classic qualities of the traditional dramatist—cast-iron construction, a coherent and well-plotted story to tell, solid, realistic charact...
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SOURCE: Pireddu, Nicoletta. “Sublime Supplements: Beckett and the ‘Fizzling Out’ of Meaning.” Studies in Short Fiction 29, no. 3 (summer 1992): 303-14. In the following essay, Pireddu considers the disjointed and confused nature of ...
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SOURCE: Cohen, Philip. “Faulkner's Early Narrative Technique and Flags in the Dust.” Southern Studies 24, no. 2 (summer 1985): 202-20. In the following essay, Cohen argues that Faulkner first successfully merged elements of the nineteen...
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SOURCE: Dunn, Stephen G., and Anne Lonergan. Review of The Flamingo's Smile, by Stephen Jay Gould. America 154, no. 20 (24 May 1986): 437-39. In the following review, Dunn and Lonergan praise The Flamingo's Smile, but fault the work for lac...
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To those who know O'Nolan's writing, ["Stories and Plays"] is a treasure. To those who don't, it is an excellent introduction, for every type of thing that he did in English is here, in brief, and in a rich assortment: the unfinished novel,...
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