According to the critical essay on the Overview of Frankenstein by George V. ... An example of an idea of the dangers of intellect would be through Frankenstein, to whom "life and death appeared ideal bounds" to be broken through, whom succeeds in his intellectual pursuit but at great cost, because in the end he not only loses his brother, wife, and best friend, he also ends up being the most alienated. ... The critical essay in my opinion was straight to the point. ... As a reader of the novel and the essay I agree with what Griffith comments on the novel as well as how Griffith connects the ...

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Mary Louise Pratt discusses a relatively foreign concept, the contact zone, in her essay "Arts of the Contact Zone." ... One of the examples that stick out in my head is her story of her son and baseball. ... A little later in the essay, Pratt tells us that the contact zone plays such an important role in autoethnographic text, text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations other have make of them. For example, she states that all America's stories about American slaves will always have a Euramerican twist on it because that was who the p...

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The aim of this essay is to discuss several possibilities why the motif of madness is frequently used in the short fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. In the essay "The Philosophy of Composition" Poe argues that work of literary art should attain unity of effect, which he view as a point of the greatest importance. ... "3 Besides frightening subjects like death, disease, dark setting, haunted locations and others, characters who exhibit madness4 are the gothic elements incorporated in number of his stories, like for example in, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "Berenice...

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We tend to think of heroes as imaginary super-heroes with super powers, or the heroes we find everyday in our police stations, fire stations, schools and homes, or those special people who have a vision for the way the world should be when it comes to caring for others. In the A&P Plot and Harris...

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This essay analyses the main characteristics of American Neoclassicism and Romanticism that are the most strongly present in Irving's Sketch Book as well as the contributions of Irving to American Literature. ... For example, in "Roscoe," Irving seems to express all the veneration he feels towards Mr. ... Accordingly, Irving's writings are an example of philosophic literature. ... An example of this is, "The mutability of literature" which has objective points of view and subjective points of view. ... Additionally, Irving's short stories are an example of expressive literature....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate