Four years later, Eco responded to readers of his novel in an eclectic text called Postscript to The Name of the Rose. ... In his case, this required committing him to a specific date, reading architectural plans and registers of the holdings of medieval libraries, and even counting the steps in a fourteenth-century stairway. ... By reimagining the past, the novelist thus performs the analytical role of the historian, by "not only identify[ing] in the past the causes of what came later, but also trac[ing] the process through which those causes began slowly to produce their effects"(p. 76). ....

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When reading both these novels, most readers usually do not first pay attention to the details of the clothing that the characters in these two novels wear. ... While reading the beginning of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, it is easy to picture Santiago as an innocent vulnerable dove, one completely unaware of what surrounds him. ... However, like the short, small amount of animal skin that covers him temporarily, as seen later on in the novel his money also only covers his broken engagement and marriage for a very short period of time. ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Yet, later on, as the creature becomes aware of how he came to be and is confronted with the cruelty of society, he decides to seek revenge on Victor Frankenstein's family and wreaks havoc upon the life of his creator. ... However, the creature's most important contacts with knowledge occurred during his stay in the hovel next the cottage of the Delacey's; it was only after listening to the lessons that Felix gave Safie and after reading Milton's "Paradise Lost " that the creature finally understood his place in society. ... It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on...

• Word Count: 1600
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... During the late eighteenth-century, several different kinds of new fiction arose to challenge the Augustan tradition; leading the way was the Gothic novel. ... The differentiation between the mind and self was a relevant topi...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

David punter describes the political relationship of the Augustan thinker to the literary world, " It is tempting to see in Augustanism the doctrine of a small cultural elite holding on to power and status under increasing pressure, and that pressure as precisely that exerted by the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). ... During the late eighteenth-century, several different kinds of new fiction arose to challenge the Augustan tradition; leading the way was the Gothic novel. ... The differentiation between the mind and self was a relevant topi...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later, when Emma dies, the blind man gets to the end of his song about a young girl dreaming. ... 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. ... She later exposes Flaubert's friendship with Louis Bouihet "a medical consultant-- who disclosed detailed information regarding the beggar's symptoms. ...

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

After a long exasperating reading through an insanely complex novel, Crime and Punishment, One will find themselves mentally anguished and disassociated with vocabulary understanding. ... These bold statements will be articulately explained later in the essay. ...

• Word Count: 966
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate