In reality each work of literature is an indivisible living whole. Analysis of a work using a system of abstractions and investigating different aspects and details separately should lead to a perception of this wholeness, of the unity of content and form. Depending on their content and form, ...
When dead men reach the final stage of death, therefore, even though their bodies are gone, "they shall have stars at elbow and foot." The paradox of having elbows and feet and yet no body reiterates the poem's theme of resurrection. More important than the body is the spirit or the ...
Annie Hart, daughter of Bryan Hart – talent agent to the stars – spends her life getting roped into whatever new task her father needs her to do for his VIP clients. So when she inherits a yarn shop in the small Indiana town of Franklin, she is curious to see what it feels like ...
A Summary and Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘The Letter from Home’Select Books by Style or Influenceabsurdism allegorical literary fiction anecdotal fiction anti-narrative Bellovian Bildungsroman Bukowskian Carveresque character-driven character-driven story Chekovian clever writing style comic literary ...
‘The core of this brilliant exploration of power is an analysis of 13 versions of a three-minute telephone conversation between the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and the novelist Boris Pasternak in 1934. Each of these is an attempt to understand or justify Pasternak’s troubling, ambiguous respon...
‘You were nearly dead,’ said my interlocutor. ‘It was a very near thing, indeed. But I’ve put some stuff into you now. Notice your arm’s sore? Injections. You’ve been insensible for nearly thirty hours.’ I thought slowly. (I was distracted now by the yelping of a number ...
present, alive, dead—just a few of the literary polarities inhabiting this writing—interact at a level no reader can accept without relinquishing his/her own sense of person and being. Interweaving Dante, Melville, Hawthorne, Pirandello into a single narrative that seizes the essence of each...
Explanation and Analysis—Evil Angel: In the second chapter of Part 3, Sal goes to Dean's house. Sal metaphorically describes himself as an angel, come to spirit Dean away on an adventure. My arrival was somewhat like the coming of the strange most evil angel in the home of the snow-...
Literary Analysis of 'A Song of Ice and Fire'About Narratology Series Allusions Links Daughter of Death: A Song of Ice and Fire’s Shakespearean Tragic Hero April 19, 2019 ~ Leave a comment Introduction Lear. Hamlet. Othello… And Daenerys. GRRM draws explicit connections between these ...
Explanation and Analysis—Seeds and Roots: Throughout Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the motif of seeds and roots to illustrate themes of kingship and lineage. Duncan's use of imagery in Act 1, Scene 4, for example, suggests that he views Scotland as a kind of vast garden, with himself as the...