Nov 3, 2009

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

By: Frank Yeats

Oct 31, 2009

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

By: Alexandra Szydlowska

Oct 31, 2009

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

By: Shreya Sanghani

Oct 28, 2009

French Author Faiza Guene: A Young Literary Sensation

By: Jen Bouchard

Oct 24, 2009

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

By: Alexandra Szydlowska

Oct 22, 2009

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

By: David Jacobs

Oct 20, 2009

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

By: Francesca Aniballi

Oct 19, 2009

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

By: Kate Rodriguez

Oct 18, 2009

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

By: Francesca Aniballi

Oct 10, 2009

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

By: Inka Piegsa-Quischotte

Sep 28, 2009

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

By: Tracey Carter

Aug 22, 2009

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

By: Luke Arnott

Aug 19, 2009

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

By: Kathleen Duffy

Aug 15, 2009

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

By: Luke Arnott

Aug 8, 2009

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

By: Victoria Robinson

Aug 2, 2009

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

By: Victoria Robinson

Jul 28, 2009

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

By: Jeanne Lombardo

Jul 28, 2009

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

By: Jeanne Lombardo

Jul 19, 2009

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

By: Luke Arnott

Jul 13, 2009

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

By: Victoria Robinson

Jul 2, 2009

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

By: Luke Arnott

Jun 30, 2009

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

By: Tracey Carter

Jun 30, 2009

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

By: Yirssi Bergman

Jun 26, 2009

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

By: Luke Arnott

Jun 26, 2009

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

By: Tracey Carter

Jun 9, 2009

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

By: Michelle White

Jun 9, 2009

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

By: Bonnie Way

Jun 9, 2009

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

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

Jun 4, 2009

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

By: Douglas Nordfors

Jun 3, 2009

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

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

May 16, 2009

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

By: Ryan Werner

May 12, 2009

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

By: Victoria Robinson

May 8, 2009

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

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

May 6, 2009

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

By: Chris Woolfrey

May 4, 2009

Flaubert's Madame Bovary: A Study in Female Rebellion

By: Jackie Patrick

Apr 30, 2009

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

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

Apr 29, 2009

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

By: Sandra Causey

Apr 24, 2009

Ignorance by Milan Kundera: A Novel About Returning Home

By: Megan Jungwi

Apr 19, 2009

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

By: Luke Arnott

Apr 16, 2009

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

By: Melissa Howard

Apr 10, 2009

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

By: Luke Arnott

Apr 7, 2009

The Greek Myth of Cassandra: The Prophetic Trojan Princess

By: Samantha Markham

Apr 4, 2009

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

By: Samantha Markham

Mar 29, 2009

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

By: Jaclyna Perez

Mar 19, 2009

Review of Les Miserables: Victor Hugo’s Sprawling Masterpiece

By: Melissa Howard

Mar 9, 2009

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

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Mar 8, 2009

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

By: Jackie Patrick

Mar 8, 2009

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

By: Sabrina Louise Webb

Mar 6, 2009

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

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Mar 5, 2009

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

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Feb 13, 2009

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Gregor's Transformation

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Feb 1, 2009

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

By: James Parsons

Jan 26, 2009

Samuel Beckett's Postmodern Literature: Understanding Samuel Beckett

By: Matthew Tanner

Jan 17, 2009

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

By: Cicely A. Richard

Dec 16, 2008

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

By: John Lamkin

Dec 15, 2008

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

By: Vince Cummings

Dec 6, 2008

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

By: Chris Woolfrey

Oct 29, 2008

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

By: Jen Syrkiewicz

Oct 28, 2008

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

By: Sandra Causey

Oct 24, 2008

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

By: Cicely A. Richard

Oct 23, 2008

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

By: Michelle Ward

Oct 17, 2008

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

By: Jen Syrkiewicz

Oct 15, 2008

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

By: Marius Goubert

Oct 11, 2008

From Death to Life: Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

By: Allison D. Schisler

Oct 10, 2008

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

By: Simone Preuss

Oct 8, 2008

Shakespeare's Macbeth: The Gender Construction of Macbeth

By: Jennifer M. Willhite

Sep 30, 2008

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

By: Alice Woolliams

Sep 24, 2008

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

By: Danielle DuChateau

Sep 23, 2008

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

By: Chris Woolfrey

Sep 6, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Aug 29, 2008

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

By: Fraser Sherman

Aug 21, 2008

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

By: Nicholas Morine

Jul 24, 2008

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

By: Christina Donahue

Jul 21, 2008

Canone Inverso: Paolo Maurensig Masterfully Weaves Music into Fiction

By: Laura L. Johnson

Jul 4, 2008

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

By: Jessica Gleason

Jul 4, 2008

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

By: Jessica Gleason

Jun 23, 2008

Dogs of Nothingness: The First Acclaimed Book by Emanuele Trevi

By: Maria Teresa Sette

Jun 1, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

May 26, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

May 17, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

May 9, 2008

Ulysses: A Review: A Modernist Classic

By: Martyn Conterio

Apr 28, 2008

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

By: Kelley Wadson

Apr 21, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Apr 18, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Mar 30, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Mar 11, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Feb 27, 2008

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

By: Mary Hiers

Feb 18, 2008

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

By: Mary Hiers

Feb 10, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Jan 29, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Jan 10, 2008

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Dec 7, 2007

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

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Aug 21, 2007

Maupassant's Diamond Necklace: What Is Happiness Worth?

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Aug 20, 2007

Blindness, by José Saramago: Navigating Chaos

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Aug 20, 2007

Kafka's Heroes: Basic Characteristics

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Aug 6, 2007

Nina Berberova: Author and Critic

By: Meg Nola

Jul 1, 2007

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

By: Jennifer Alpeche

Jun 12, 2007

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

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

May 30, 2007

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

By: Maria Luisa Antonaya

Apr 26, 2007

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

By: Meg Nola

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