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The “Vile Body” and the Grotesque
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An eight page paper looking at the relationship between our fascination with the grotesque and our dissatisfaction with our own bodies. Supplementary sources discussed include Mary Russo’s “The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess, and Modernity” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” The writer also touched on Mary Pipher’s “Reviving Ophelia,” and the theories of Carl Jung. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: KBgrotes.wps

Salvation and Nature in Crane and Bierce
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A 5 page paper looking at the degree to which the salvation of a character is dependent upon whether he adapts to his natural surroundings. The paper specifically discusses Stephen Crane’s short story “The Open Boat” and Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” No additional sources.
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Mill, Carlyle & Victorian Society
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A 7 page paper showing how Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill influenced the Victorian age as much as they were influenced by it. It shows how their philosophies informed the age they lived in, and how their influence stretched into the twentieth century as well. Bibliography contains two sources.
Filename: Millcar.wps

Modernism in Marx, Freud, Nietzsche -- and Eliot
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A seven page paper analyzing the way the writings of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche influenced the development of modernism in general and the works of T.S. Eliot in particular. Works mentioned are Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Waste Land,” and “Tradition and the Individual Talent”; Marx’ letters; Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents”; and Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morals.” Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: KBmodern.wps

“Gawain” and “Cei”
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A ten page paper looking at these two characters of Arthurian romance -- one from Chretien de Troyes’ “Erec and Enide” and “Lancelot,” and the other from Rosemary Sutcliff’s contemporary novel “Sword at Sunset.” The paper points out that Gawain is demeaned in Chretien’s works because he needed a more distinctively Gallic hero, while Sutcliff needed to make Cei more warrior-like to fit with her own setting. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Questioning Authority In Renaissance Drama
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A 6 page paper looking at Shakespeare's King Lear, The Tempest, and Spanish playwright Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna in terms of the degree to which they permit characters to question and flout authority. The paper argues that this has a great deal to do with the medieval view of government as a God-given hierarchy, and only as humanism began to take hold could authority be questioned. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Devega.wps

A Freudian Approach to Understanding Plath's The Bell Jar
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A 5 page analysis of Sigmund Freud's Civilization and its Discontents and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. The writer argues that a possible explanation for the depression of Plath's protagonist, Esther, may be found in Freud's work. No additional sources cited.
Filename: 90beljar.rtf

The Timelessness of Medea and Blood Wedding
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A 5 page, analytical discussion of how the themes into literary landmarks -- from two different cultures -- (Spanish and Ancient Greek) have withstood the 'tests of time' and still maintain an appeal for contemporary audiences. The two works discussed are Euripides' 'Medea' and Garcia Lorca's 'Blood Wedding' -- two thematically similar tales. No Bibliography.
Filename: Mdeablod.wps

A Comparison Of Antigone, Medea & Nora
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This 3 page paper provides an overview of the similarities of three of the best-known female protagonists is theater -- Nora of Ibsen's 'The Doll House,' Medea in 'Medea' by Euripides, and Antigone in Sophocles' play of the same name. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
Filename: 3women.rtf

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