Academic papers on American Literature

William Faulkner/ "A Rose For Emily"
An 8 page research paper that examines Faulkner's classic short story, "A Rose for Emily." The writer examines the thoughts of several scholars on the story, and also from a feminist perspective that considers the role that societal expectations...
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Ernest Hemingway/"Old man and the sea" as canon
A 5 page research paper that argues that this classic short novel in style and content is undoubtedly part of the Hemingway canon. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Adrienne Kennedy/Funnyhouse of a Negro
A 5 page research paper that examines Adrienne Kennedy's highly symbolic play, "Funnyhouse of a Negro." The writer argues that the point of this play is not so much to convey a coherent narrative as to convey the feeling, the context of the...
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Western Cities
(10 pp) The discussion has been prompted by questions concerning urban studies, particularly in the Western United States. Areas of discussion include: the progressive era; the growth of Los Angeles; the role of government in land...
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Thematic Similarities: T.S. Eliot - The Wasteland. R. Chandler - The Long Goodbye.
(5 pp) Sometimes the things unite two works of fiction are the most obvious, and so we do not even consider them. Such may be the case with Raymond Chandlers, The Long Goodbye and T.S. Eliot's poem The Wasteland: one is about a...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Blade Runner
A five page paper which compares Philip K Dick
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The Plays Of Luis Valdez
This 5 page paper explains how the plays, Zoot Suit, Bandido! and I Don't have To Show You No Stinking Badges, by Luis Valdez, encompass the conflict over time and place, race, gender and class that helped to define the history of the American...
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Power and Conflict in the "nest" -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
(5 pp). On one level this book is about society's dislike for, and eventual destruction of the unrepentant non-conformer. But on another level it is exactly what the story line portrays - a brilliant look at the abuse, oppression and even...
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Malamud's "The Natural": Novel and Movie.
(5 pp). Bernard Malamud's (1914-1986) first novel, The Natural, an allegory about the rise and fall of a baseball player, was published in 1952. According to Rothstein (1986), it is different from most of his work in that there are no...
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashberry (1976).
(5 pp) John Ashbery is the only American poet to win all three major annual literary prizes - the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award - for one book Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. This is...
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Ann Sexton: Cinderella.
(5 pp) At a turning point in art history, Marcel Duchamp turned a porcelain urinal, upside down and hung it on the wall, labeling it art, after he signed it "R. Mutt." The supposed sophisticated community at large took that to mean -...
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Steven Pressfield: Gates of Fire (1998)
(5 pp) The "Gates of Fire" or the "Hot Gates" was another name for the narrow rocky pass at Thermopylae. There, a hand-picked force of 300 Spartans and about 700 allies, were to delay the invading Persians for as long. The idea was that ...
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Joan Didion/"Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
A 5 page essay that analyzes Didion's essay "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" in her book by the same name. In this essay, Didion relates her observations about the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in 1967 and how this phenomenon reflected the...
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Lawrence Buell/Literary Transcendentalism
A 6 page analysis and summation of the main points from Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance by Lawrence Buell. In this book, Buell endeavors to outline the "nature and evolution" of the work of American...
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Alfredo Vea, Jr : The Silver Cloud Caf
(3 pp) " Zeferino drove down Folsom Street wondering why he had never noticed Raphael's Silver Cloud Cafe and Bar. He had driven down Folsom Street, down Seventeenth, and even down Shotwell on hundreds of occasions, investigating scores...
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