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Vice and Violence in Shakespeare: Sexual Humor and Violence in Shakespeare Plays

By: Frank Yeats

Russian Dramatic Greats - Gogol: 19th century Russian Drama; 'The Government Inspector' & 'Marriage'

By: Alexandra Szydlowska

Hamlet – A Revenge Tragedy: William Shakespeare's Famous Play About Revenge

By: Shreya Sanghani

French Author Faiza Guene: A Young Literary Sensation

By: Jen Bouchard

Russian Dramatic Greats - Sumarokov & Pushkin: Reading Russian Drama; 'Khorev', 'Boris Godunov' and More

By: Alexandra Szydlowska

Homer's Depiction of the Human Body: The Active Living Body, Body Parts, and Motivation

By: David Jacobs

A Review of The Iguana by Anna Maria Ortese: A Magical Realist Masterpiece by an Italian Writer

By: Francesca Aniballi

The Life and Works of Erich Kaestner: The Famous German Writer Penned "Emil and the Detectives"

By: Kate Rodriguez

Anna Maria Ortese, a Great Italian Writer: The Writer Who Redeemed the Honor of Italian Literature Since 1945

By: Francesca Aniballi

Nobel Prize in Literature 2009: Herta Müller's Work and Background

By: Inka Piegsa-Quischotte

Significance of Names in Shakespeare's King Lear: The Meanings of Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia

By: Tracey Carter

Dangerous Liaisons & the Power of Love Letters: Amorous Epistles are Rhetorical Tools in Choderlos de Laclos's Novel

By: Feature Writer Luke Arnott

Ideology in Albert Camus' Novel The Outsider: Finding Ideological Meaning in Camus' Anti-Hero Outsider Novel

By: Kathleen Duffy

Latin Quotations From the Satires of Juvenal: Sayings Coined by Ancient Rome's Greatest Satiric Poet

By: Feature Writer Luke Arnott

Review of The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme: Makine's Novel Reveals Much About the French/Russian Connection

By: Victoria Robinson

Review of The Woman Who Waited by Andreï Makine: An Arrogant Intellectual Meets His Match in This Passionate Novel

By: Victoria Robinson

Five Modern Age Utopias: How Conceptualizations of Reality Shape Visions of an Ideal World

By: Jeanne Lombardo

Early Utopias: Myths of a Golden Age, Eden, and the Fortunate Isles

By: Jeanne Lombardo

Understanding Russian Names in Literature: How to Keep Track of Patronymics and Nicknames in Russian Novels

By: Feature Writer Luke Arnott

Review of Perfume - The Story of a Murderer: Süskind's Novel Takes the Reader on an Olfactory Journey

By: Victoria Robinson

An Introduction to Grettis Saga Ásmundarsonar: Saga Tells the Life of a Poet, Warrior, and Icelandic Folk Hero

By: Feature Writer Luke Arnott

Shakespeare's Leading Ladies – Ophelia & Juliet: The Role of Tragic Female Characters in Hamlet and MacBeth

By: Tracey Carter

Book Review of Dantes Inferno: The Inferno is an Imaginative and Poetic Book

By: Yirssi Bergman

An Introduction to Egils Saga Skallagrímssonar: Icelandic Saga Tells the Life of a Singular Viking-Poet

By: Feature Writer Luke Arnott

Sex and Desire in the Decameron: Boccacio's Renaissance Exploration of Natural Desire

By: Tracey Carter

À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans: A Portrait of Fin-de-Siècle Decadence in 19th Century France

By: Michelle White

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Dostoevsky's Attempt to Portray a Truly Beautiful Soul

By: Bonnie Way

Book Review – A Village Romeo and Juliet: 19th Century Realist Fiction From Swiss Author Gottfried Keller

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

Italian Shoes is a Good Fit: Henning Menkel is More Than a Well-known Mystery Writer

By: Douglas Nordfors

Book Review – Lovely Green Eyes by Arnost Lustig: Lustig's Novel Explores Survival Instinct, Trauma and Memory

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

Book Review – Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas: A Play For Voices that is Pretty but, Ultimately, Pointless

By: Ryan Werner

Review of A Life's Music by Andreï Makine: This Novella is Simply Told but Holds Hypnotic Emotional Depth

By: Victoria Robinson

Book Review – La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh: Philippe Claudel’s Poignant Contemporary French Novel

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

How Literature Is Written - A Vocational Career: An Explanation According to Italo Calvino

By: Chris Woolfrey

Flaubert's Madame Bovary: A Study in Female Rebellion

By: Jackie Patrick

Book Review – Eugénie Grandet by Balzac: A Classic Novel From one of France’s Most Esteemed Literary Realists

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

Gender in Kerstin Ekman's Witches' Rings: Rochelle Wright's Argument of Cyclical Narrative

By: Sandra Causey

Ignorance by Milan Kundera: A Novel About Returning Home

By: Feature Writer Megan Jungwi

Norse Mythology in the Prose Edda: Snorri Sturluson's Treatise Preserved Stories of Pagan Norse Gods

By: Feature Writer Luke Arnott

Bishop of Digne from Les Miserables: Victor Hugo’s ‘Upright Man’

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

An Introduction to Old Norse and Icelandic Sagas: Unique Viking Literature is Among the Best of the Middle Ages

By: Feature Writer Luke Arnott

The Greek Myth of Cassandra: The Prophetic Trojan Princess

By: Feature Writer Samantha Markham

The Phantom of The Opera: Gaston Leroux's Famous Ghost Story

By: Feature Writer Samantha Markham

Analysis of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis": The Classic Theme of Parent Versus Child

By: Jaclyna Perez

Review of Les Miserables: Victor Hugo’s Sprawling Masterpiece

By: Feature Writer Melissa Howard

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: The Inspiration Juliet Provides to the Story

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Life on the Blasket Isles: Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan

By: Jackie Patrick

An Introduction to Sade's Justine: Plot Synopsis and Themes in Sade's 3rd Novel

By: Sabrina Louise Webb

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Theme of Love and Fantasy

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester: Tales of The Middle Ages

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Gregor's Transformation

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

The Shakespeare Plot -- Who Wrote Shakespeare? A Shakespeare Biography Exposes Old Shakespeare Authorship Debate

By: James Parsons

Samuel Beckett's Postmodern Literature: Understanding Samuel Beckett

By: Matthew Tanner

Isaac Babel's My First Goose: Babel’s “Goose” becomes Symbol of Brutality of War

By: Cicely A. Richard

Translator of 16th Century Spanish Mystics: Mirabai Starr Translates the Works of Saint Teresa and Saint John

By: John Lamkin

French Novelist Marcel Proust, Wrote Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past a Classic of Modern Literature

By: Vince Cummings

Virgil's Aeneid: A Hero Driven On by Fate: Written to Praise Augustus, Aeneas Finds Little to Champion in Rome

By: Chris Woolfrey

A Review of The Gulag Archipelago: Solzhenitsyn’s Revolutionary Text

By: Jen Syrkiewicz

Comparing Women in Hedda Gabler: Thea Elvsted as Hedda's Foil in Henrik Ibsen's Play

By: Sandra Causey

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac: How Rostand Uses Symbols to Represent Unfulfilled Desire

By: Cicely A. Richard

The Role of Women in Don Quixote: Cervantes Portrays Women as the Driving Forces Behind Men

By: Michelle Ward

A Brief Biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Solzhenitsyn and ‘The Gulag Archipelago

By: Jen Syrkiewicz

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Marlow's Ambiguous Monologue

By: Marius Goubert

From Death to Life: Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

By: Allison D. Schisler

Book Review: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene: Growing Up Immigrant in the Paris Projects

By: Feature Writer Simone Preuss

Shakespeare's Macbeth: The Gender Construction of Macbeth

By: Jennifer M. Willhite

The Ancient Legend of Hel: Literary Parallels Between Christian and Pagan Underworlds

By: Alice Woolliams

The Renegade or a Confused Spirit: A Study of Identity in Albert Camus' Exile and the Kingdom

By: Danielle DuChateau

Rethinking Dante:God and Mortality in the Comedy: Promoting God's Divinity, the Divine Comedy Praises Imperfection Too

By: Chris Woolfrey

War and Peace: Volume II, Part V: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Nelson

The Russian Wizard of Oz: Alexander Volkov’s Magic Land

By: Fraser Sherman

Literature – Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus: Classic Plays, Readings, and Study Questions / Concepts

By: Feature Writer Nicholas Morine

Review: The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Milan Kunder's Novel Defies All Genres

By: Christina Donahue

Canone Inverso: Paolo Maurensig Masterfully Weaves Music into Fiction

By: Laura L. Johnson

The Bereavement of Turnus: A Tragic Ending To Virgil's Tragic Tale

By: Jessica Gleason

The Hector / Achilles Dichotomy: Who was the True Hero in Homer's Illiad?

By: Jessica Gleason

Dogs of Nothingness: The First Acclaimed Book by Emanuele Trevi

By: Maria Teresa Sette

War & Peace: Volume II, Part IV: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Nelson

War and Peace: Volume II, Part III: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Nelson

War and Peace: Volume II, Part II: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Ulysses: A Review: A Modernist Classic

By: Martyn Conterio

Life and Times of Dante Alighieri: Historical Context of the Divine Comedy

By: Kelley Wadson

War and Peace: Volume II, Part I: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Nelson

War and Peace: Volume I, Part III: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Nelson

War and Peace: Volume I, Part II: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Nelson

War and Peace: Volume I, Part I: Leo Tolstoy's Masterpiece on Russian Society in the Time of Napoleon

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Sebastian Barry: A Long Long Way: Novel of conflicting Loyalties of Irish soldiers of World War I

By: Mary Hiers

Seamus Heaney:The Burial at Thebes: Translation of Sophocles' Antigone by 1995 Nobel Laureate

By: Mary Hiers

Anna Karenina: Themes: Leo Tolstoy Writes about Social Conflict, his Times, and Happiness

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Anna Karenina: Plot: Leo Tolstoy on Love, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Leo Tolstoy Books and Biography: Life and Works of "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" Russian Author

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Life in the Tomb: WWI Literature: Stratis Myrivilis' Classic Novel of the Greek Trenches

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Maupassant's Diamond Necklace: What Is Happiness Worth?

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Blindness, by José Saramago: Navigating Chaos

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Kafka's Heroes: Basic Characteristics

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Nina Berberova: Author and Critic

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedy: Hamlet doesn't just avenge murder, he contemplates it.

By: Jennifer Alpeche

The Trial, by Franz Kafka: Understanding Joseph K.’s Failed Case

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka: Interpreting the Transformation of Gregor Samsa and his Family

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Italian Writer I.U. Tarchetti: Author of Fantastic Tales and Passion

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

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