William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
An essay by Watanabe Shinji exploring the differences between poems and novels. It looks in particular, with several close readings, at how the conventions of verse manifests themselves in Faulkner's novel.
Absalom, Absalom!
A chapter from Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction by Marilyn R. Chandler, analysing the subject of 'houses' in this novel.
Essay by Monica Signoretti discussing Shreve's relationship to Quentin.
An article by Robert Phillips, editor of the Mississippi Quarterly, examining novelist and historian Shelby Foote's contemporaneous review of the novel.
As I Lay Dying
An in-depth analysis of the novel by Michael Zeitlin with several close readings.
The Unvanquished
A study by Homma Akio of Bayard's narrative and how Faulkner represents the civil war and avoids the race problem in this novel.
Sartoris
A scholarly article by Manana Gelashvili, Associate Professor of the State University of Tbilisi, which examines the subject of time and how it is rendered in this novel, stating that Sartoris "is of great significance as a source-book for Faulkner's literary development."
Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated
A paper by Anna Hunter, of the University of Central Lancashire, looking at the role of cultural memory and the holocaust in this novel and Lily Brett's Too Many Men.
An essay by Jamie McCulloch of Fairleigh Dickinson University looking at the literary devices Foer employs in this novel to convey comedy and tradegy in his picaresque narrative and protagonist; McCulloch also discusses works by Martin Amis, Michael Chabon, Richard Russo, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Steve Tesich.
E.M. Forster
A Passage to India
An essay by Christine Froula of Northwestern University which seeks to discover how quantum physics can illuminate this novel's social world; the analysis also sets out to distinguish modernism and postmodernism.
An essay by Shirley Galloway examining empire, ideology and transformation in this novel and Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
In this essay Shirley Galloway discusses some of the novel's characters.
An article by Tanvi Patel exploring Forster's portrayal of friendship between the Indians and the English with mention of several characters.
The Machine Stops
An academic article by Ralph Pordzik of Wurzbürg University reading Forster's short story as a 'closet fantasy'. The essay references work by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.