… on a postmodern reading of Joyce Carol Oates, "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Corrections and Began My Life Over Again." More precisely, as a postmodern text. Postmodernism refers to texts that reject coherence in a narrative,…

… women are also shown as heroic. It is said that some modern readers of the Old Testament argue that women are given a very minor role in Israel's salvation history and that the writers are sexist or biased against women. Writers did not give…

… about their body image. After reading a paragraph of John Lahr's "The Voodoo of Glamour", it made me think why women worry so much about their body image. Glamour has a "lethal effect on the psyche", Lahr says. This is very true. This concern has become…

… of Sophocles' play 'King Oedipus': destiny vs. freewill. Her statement "chance rules our lives", however, is quite ironic as Jocasta had taken the fate of her son, Oedipus, very seriously when he was first born, so much so as to have him left to…

… body of Kiowa in the "shit field." *Jimmy Cross blames himself, wonders where he went wrong and writes a letter in his head to Kiowa's father. *A young soldier, presumably Tim though un-named, searches for the picture of his ex-girlfriend. *Kiowa…

… she loved very much. She faced a lot of challenges when she had to move into a family that she didn't know. She felt a sense of rejection when both Pearl (one of the daughters) and Gladwyn (the mother) let her know that they didn't want her living…

… Play 'Romeo and Juliet' and watched two film interpretations of it. As we all know the play is about Romeo, the young heir of the Montagues, and Juliet, the daughter of the house of Capulets, and their love, which defies the hatred between…

… and novels have influenced us, and all have been biased in some manner. Texts are prejudiced by what period they have been made in, a movie made in the 70's would be adversely affected by the Vietnam War. A…

… in Gilgamesh and later in the Bible show two different versions of what appear to be the same story, and at the same time speak very differently about each culture's respective values. The first difference mentioned is the reason each story's God or…

… a literary course, the joy of reading it is immediately lost due to the fact that the particular novel may not be interest to the student, the student may hurry to finish the novel and by the extent to which the novel is studied. The joy of reading…