Literature

In his landmark novel Clockers, author Richard Price employs a narrative style, which exposes the reader to both ends of the legal spectrum. The ...

In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Alonso, king of Naples, is greatly changed by Prospero’s storm and the events that follow it. From the very ...

In issuing a scathing critique of Joseph Conrad’s personage in 1977, famed Nigerian author Chinua Achebe embarrassed himself. Indeed, Achebe fell victim to the ...

The use of certain literary devices can produce an important message within a piece of literature, and coupled with external considerations like timeframe a ...

James Baldwin’s story Sonny’s Blues echoes many of his other stories which focus on class distinction, racism, and sexuality in 20th century America. As ...

In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” we bear witness to the power of mythos in the creation of cultural ...

To understand the true conflict represented in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, one must understand European imperialism in Africa during the late 19th Century. ...

Baldassare Castiglione’s The Courtier sets out to describe the perfect Renaissance man. Presented as a series of conversations between a group of clever individuals ...

Through the ages, much has been discussed and considered regarding what defines self-resilience and self-reliance. Society has been one of the primary manifestations and ...

The adventures- real or imagined- of Jimmy Corrigan make for an engaging and intense read. Jimmy endures a series of hardships, a lonely childhood, ...