Literature was in her family since she was a little girl with her father being a librarian at the university of Rhode Island. ... Followed up her education at Boston University where she received an M.A. in English, M.F.A. in Creative Writing, M.A. in Comparative Literature, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. ... This shows another way how Jhumpa uses her Indian in her literature. ... This is one way Jhumpa puts her background into her literature with Bengail being the place she was born, in India. ... It's great how Jhumpa Lahiri shows this in her literature. ...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The use of this character device is widespread in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and indicates a growing awareness among authors that the "self " is really a composite of many "selves ". ... The phrase has a long history in literature, and was popularized (and perhaps coined) by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story, "The Imp of the Perverse." 2. ... Many critics consider Poe the founder of the so called doppelganger technique, in literature. ... More than a regular story, the latter one, is a study of the unconscious mind, and in some critic's opinion is an early version of...

• Word Count: 1909
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The literature of Flannery O'Connor can appear to be distant and unemotional, as well as unbelievably harsh and violent. ... O'Connor's evident discontentment with society at the time has frequently been attributed to her Catholic religion, her studies in social science, and the fact that the lifestyles of the elite southern whites were diminishing. ... (Baumgaertner, 24) Students may question how her writing, as bizarre and cruel as it is, would be deemed Christian literature. ... She was not fulfilled with the restrictions of solely rational content, and stated that she ha...

• Word Count: 1784
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are many prominent cross-cultural writers in the history of American literature. ... This change of direction brought him to Washington State University where he quit drinking and earned a B.A. in American Studies. ... I have wracked my brain to come up with an overall theme for this piece of literature. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the years many dystopian novels have changed the way we look at our future. From Orwell's depiction of a society that is ruled by an all seeing eye looking over their shoulders in "1984" to a society where the government has all but collapsed to every man is for himself in Butler's "Parab...

• Word Count: 1647
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The civilization may be gone with the wind, but the discussion and study of that time will never end. ... He won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award and a Nobel Prize for Literature. ... Littler wrote that "A Rose for Emily- has been read variously as " a Gothic horror tale, a study in abnormal psychology, an allegory of the relations between North and South, a meditation on the nature of time, and a tragedy with Emily as a sort of tragic heroine- (Akers 2). ...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Shinn, a Professor of English and Women's Studies at Purdue University, wrote " And her criminals, her misfits and prophets, are closer to salvation because they are in the spiritual realm: they are Evil and are fighting a religious battle within themselves- their belief or disbelief in Christ is a matter of life and death- (375). ... Though her career, along with her life was cut short, she already carved her place in the history of American literature. ...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School