Literature

The duel emerged as an important theme in Russian literature during the nineteenth century. This literary trend was an outgrowth of events that were ...

Satan is both a key religious and literary symbol for Western culture, and he is a predominant figure in two classic works, Dante’s Inferno ...

The early myths and legends of Irish literature are believed to contain many stories that have their roots in the older oral histories of ...

St Augustine’s "Confessions" is considered a profound and critical analysis of the Bible. The beginning of St. Augustine's Confessions discuss the various events that ...

In the classical literature piece Antigone, the last of the Three Theban Plays, Sophocles appropriates the domineering leadership style of Creon in order to ...

Milton Murayama’s first work, All I Asking for is my Body, quickly gained underground popularity, and later became recognized as a bona fide classic, ...

Virginia Woolf and Rainer Rilke were roughly contemporaries in that their literary careers both straddled the first decades of the 20th century. One common ...

Henry V is considered one of Shakespeare's most regarded works. The play itself is centered around many different characters notably King Henry, who was ...

Marguerite De Navarre's The Heptameron is an interesting reading experience. The language with which it is written is representative of its time period, however, ...

At face value, Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman are two very different plays about two very different men ...