Cervantes portrays the character of a Don Quixote, a man deeply lost and overcome in his books of chivalry. ... The third section, which covers the second part of the novel, is different since it is written as a more established novel, arranged by emotional and content, which relates to the theme, and filled with character development. ... The characters themselves, aware of the books that have been written about them, try to change the content of following versions. ... The books and manuscripts that appear everywhere in Don Quixote symbolize the importance and influence of fiction and litera...

• Word Count: 1783
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Evans implies that Madame Bovary is a novel about the dangers of reading romantic novels since Emma's image of romance developed from the books she read at the convent school. These books reflected the more exuberant aspects of Romanticism, a literary and artistic movement that focused on the expression of the emotional and imaginative life of the individual. ...

• Word Count: 1106
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

George Orwell, a profound literary figure in his own right, said: "the worst books are often the most important because they are usually the ones that are read earliest in life- (Hunt, 1). ... Hunt maintains that children's books should be displaced from the literary canon altogether (7). But when viewed from both a critical and emotional standpoint, children's literature occupies a very dense subgroup of the Literary Canon. ...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While serving as a publisher, she published books by several African American writers. ... Her novels are all carefully written to produce poetic phrases and strong emotional responses from the readers. ... In an endeavor to find how the "Blues Aesthetic" interferes and interacts with the reader's perception of the novel, Cat Moses attempts to discover the necessity of the emotional content in The Bluest Eye. ... I agree with Moses' conclusion that in order to have the emotional impact in addition to maintaining the lyrical feel in The Bluest Eye, it was essential that Clau...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate