How is a writer s personality reflected in his work? In Ernest Hemingway s case, many critics and scholars believe that he used his writing partly as a therapeutic healing of his unstable psyche and his vulnerable self-esteem. ...

In this thesis I have looked at how J. Edgar Hoover came to power as Director of the FBI, and how he later used that power against Attorney General Robert Kennedy and SCLC leader Martin Luther King, Jr. I have further ...

I have chosen to compare Laurence Sterne's Book 7 of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey because I found it challenging that several critics have referred to the two texts as quite similar, even to the extent that ...

This paper takes part in the contemporary discussion around the notion of sovereignty and its viability in the increasingly globalized world. Whereas the question of persistence of sovereignty sets the overall frame for ...

Abstract of thesis Portrayals of Space and Identity in the Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro By Anne Marie Hagen This thesis examines the mutually influencing relationship between space and identity through close ...

British national identity was in the process of being defined around the turn of the 19th century, and as the British Empire stretched over oceans and continents, the need to define an essential [ ] [national] character ...

Few writers have captured the imagination of their own time, spawning so much criticism, gossip and mythologizing, as Oscar Wilde did. Wilde’s late Victorian era was a time of lively debate on art, gender and sexuality. ...

Utopian colonies were flourishing in antebellum America, more than a hundred of such colonies were founded in this period by people who wanted to lead a life different from that of the mainstream. Some of the colonies were ...

Paul Simon er kanskje best kjent som den ene halvpart av duoen "Simon and Garfunkel", men har gitt ut flere kritiker roste album som solo artist. En av disse er for eksempel "Graceland" (1986). Han blir ofte nevnt i samme ...

The main concern in this thesis is an examination of Tom Wolfe s presentation of his views on American society in his writing. I have chosen to examine his works of literary journalism, represented by The Electric Kool-Aid ...