1. A Rose for Emily
An Analysis of the Dream Visions Depicted in Pearl and Solaris The medieval poem, Pearl, and the science fiction drama, Solaris, offer two uniquely similar takes on the "dream vision" genre. ... Solaris, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is arguably the cinematic incarnation of the Pearl poet's literary poem, albeit with a more existential twist. ... And even though their world views of this life and the next are different, their respective depictions of those views are essential to the analysis nonetheless. ... Ultimately, the exact kind of dream vision each work represents is not...
This essay will be a critical analysis of the three primary facets of structure - character, plot and theme - in reference to the novels Mary Barton and The Woman in White. ... Starting with an analysis of character one must first give it a literary definition. ...
Howard Brody has written a terrific book called Stories of Sickness. I am going to talk to you about some ideas in this book which I have found helpful in thinking about experiences of sickness--my own and others-- and in thinking about experiences of 'story',--as storytelling, as fiction and fact t...
Narrative peculiarities in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway- This essay (that I would rather consider as an analysis) will deal with the narration, narrator and narrative techniques of V. Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway-. V. Woolf - the voice of women in modernist narration. Virginia Woolf probably is one of...
When somebody tells us an interesting story we usually like to talk about it. Some of us let our imagination create our own special details to make the story a little more catchy, others may have heard the story several times by different people and consequently combine the two or three different versions to make the story more accurate while others just say the story the way they heard it. In Gary Gildner's short story "Sleepy Time Gal" the narrator had heard the story from his mother and his father so he combines the two perspectives to make his story more complete and interesting by a...