In The Name of the Rose Eco involves his readers in the complications of early-fourteenth-century theological and political controversies and philosophical debates over nominalism. ... The Name of the Rose is an early fourteenth-century historical narrative framed by the contemporary author's opening description of the manuscript and Adso's end-of-the-century epilogue. ... The fundamental tension in the novel is between those, like the inquisitor Bernardo Gui, Jorge de Burgos, Ubertino of Casale, or Adso in old age and that rare medieval-postmodern William who has abandoned his r...

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

Because of his financial state, much of Baldwin's early work was written at home on paper bags. ... A book allowed him to get far away from his troubles, and by the age of fourteen he had read everything in the Harlem libraries and had started going down to the main library. ... At the age of fourteen, Baldwin also went through a dramatic religious conversion. ... Baldwin's fiction during the late 1960s and early 1970s was influenced mainly by his participation in the civil rights movement. ... When things couldn't get any worse, Hella, with whom David had an earlier affair i...

• Word Count: 2515
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

There is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fictional ingredients-setting, character, style, and plot-seeks and maintains a delicate balance. ... The middle-class Parsis who inhabit the residential block known as Firozsha Baag come to life in these elev...

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

There is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fictional ingredients-setting, character, style, and plot-seeks and maintains a delicate balance. ... The middle-class Parsis who inhabit the residential block known as Firozsha Baag come to life in these e...

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