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Kesey and Plath: A New American MythKesey and Plath: A New American Myth A mutual friend sets up Ken Kesey and Sylvia Plath on a blind date. They meet in a Boston restaurant and discover they're both writers. Describe the ensuing conversation. Sept. 3, 1955 (from Sylvia's diary) It must have been some terrible mistake. M...
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Kerouac and Barthelme's Rebellion Against Corporate AmericaJack Kerouac and Donald Barthelme's Rebellion Against Corporate America Oh America, home of the red, white, blue, and green. Green as our greenest grass. Green as our forefather George on a one-dollar bill. You too can work your way up our market-economy mountain to your own little green...
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Tragic Realization Through Trials in Works of William StyronTragic Realization Through Trials in Works of William Styron The apocalyptic view maintains that life is a struggle between good and evil that can not be justified morally. Samuel Coale suggests that it is that ethical "quest, the search of values of [William Styron's] heroes amid the...
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Individualism and Paradox in the Works of D. H. LawrenceIndividualism and Paradox in the Works of D. H. Lawrence When you read something by D. H. Lawrence, you often end up wondering the same thing: does he hate people? Lawrence has a profound interest in us human beings, but it's the fascination of a child picking at a scab that drives him...
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Sylvia Plath: A Search for SelfSylvia Plath: A Search for Self The collective body of Sylvia Plath's poetry demonstrates definitively her mastery of her craft. Plath has been criticized for her overtly autobiographical work and her suicidal pessimism, however, close study reveals that her poetry transcends categor...
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The Doctrines of Kurt VonnegutThe Doctrines of Kurt Vonnegut The writing of Kurt Vonnegut exhibits perception without restriction and imagination without limitation. It surpasses mountains of ignorance and rivers of innocence to extend emotions for soci...
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The Like Minds of Emerson and DouglassThe Like Minds of Emerson and Douglass Few, if any, writers of the American Renaissance period had as great an influence on contemporaries as did Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was insistent that America put its mark on the literary world with its own, genuine American literature, and he launched...
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Tennessee Williams: Author and PlaywrightTennessee Williams: Author and Playwright Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26th, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. Williams wrote fiction and motion picture screenplays but is primarily acclaimed for his plays. Thomas was the first son and second child of Cornelius Coffin an...
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Shelley and the Quest for KnowledgeShelley and the Quest for Knowledge Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was the daughter of the radical feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the political philosopher, William Godwin, and the wife of the Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Through these familial affiliations, she was also acqu...
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Henry David Thoreau - Conservationist, Visionary, and HumanistHenry David Thoreau - Conservationist, Visionary, and Humanist He spent his life in voluntary poverty, enthralled by the study of nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack in the woods near a pond. Wh...
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