LITERARY CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS OF NOVELS AND POETRY

An essay by Marta Dvorak which explores this novel as a Künstlerroman - a narrative that documents its protagonist's artistic development. Dvorak examines the text's engagement with the visual arts and looks at the poetic devices Atwood employs.

A paper by Grayson Cooke of Central Queensland University looking at the role of biotechnology and the relationship between language and human life in Atwood's post-apocalyptic novel. Also assesses the criticial reception of Oryx and Crake.

An essay by Jennifer Murray examining Atwood's depiction of a historic double murder and the implications this novel's multiplicity of narrative perspectives has on historiographic de-construction and re-construction.

An essay by Meaghan Malone examining how Austen employs the female gaze in her novel to create a distinctive masculinity with her male characters.

A paper by Pál Hegyi which explores Auster's use of the theoretical concept 'mise-en-abyme', particularly in relation to the 'moon motif' in this novel, and referencing the work of André Gide, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and others.

A paper by Anna Hunter, of the University of Central Lancashire, looking at the role of cultural memory in relation to the holocaust in this novel and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated.

An essay by Catherine Siemann, an Adjunct Assistant Professor, discussing the character of Valeria Macallan, the protagonist of Collins's novel.

A paper by Irving Goh, a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, exploring various themes relating to crime detection in this short story and Steven Spielberg's 2002 film adaptation. With reference to the theories of philosopher Jacques Rancière.

An essay by Professor Kébir Sandy exploring the presence of theatricality and the influence of popular entertainment on Dickens in this novel, as well as other early Dickens works such as Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, and Nicholas Nickleby.

An essay by Professor Kébir Sandy exploring the presence of theatricality and the influence of popular entertainment on Dickens in this novel, as well as other early Dickens works such as Sketches by Boz, The Pickwick Papers, and Nicholas Nickleby.

An essay by Christine L. Krueger, Professor of English at Marquette University, exploring the historical context of Dickens's novel through the application for queer theory and in relation to contemporary LGBTQ rights.

An essay by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay looking at the form and function of language in David Copperfield, particularly how Dickens uses language as a tool for retrospection and characterization.

A paper by Margaret Price which examines the character of the hero's aunt, Betsey Trotwood, in Dickens's celebrated semi-autobiographical novel. Price focuses in particular on the notion of the 'masculine female'.

An essay by Professor Kébir Sandy exploring the presence of theatricality and the influence of popular entertainment on Dickens in this novel, as well as other early Dickens works such as Sketches by Boz, The Pickwick Papers, and Oliver Twist.

An essay by Professor Michael Hollington that sets out to highlight the paradoxical nature of Dickens's famous bildungsroman novel by exploring the grotesque and tragicomic aspects of the text.

An essay by Martin Fashbaugh, of Black Hills State University, which looks at the interplay between narrative and poetic discourse and their relationship to the theme of jealosy in Dickens's novel and The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith.

An essay by Professor Kébir Sandy, which explores the character of Bella Wilfer, with analysis of several scenes from the novel.

An essay by Kébir Sandy exploring the presence of theatricality and the influence of popular entertainment on Dickens in this novel, as well as other early Dickens works such as The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Nicholas Nickleby.

An essay by Tim Watson, a Professor at the University of Miami, analyzing this novel and Eliot's Daniel Deronda in the context of scientific enquiries into race and descent, with reference to the Morant Bay uprising in Jamaica.

An essay by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay looking at how Eliot uses suggestion and allusion to explore such 19th century taboos as physical relations and the body.

In this essay, Rosanna Wood looks at the construction of character in Eliot's novel by analyzing several principal characters and critical reactions to them.

An essay by Tim Watson, a Professor at the University of Miami, analyzing this novel and Eliot's Felix Holt, the Radical in the context of scientific enquiries into race and descent, with reference to the Morant Bay uprising in Jamaica.

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.

A paper by Benaouda Lebdaï exploring the roles of Zulu culture, the Apartheid system, and Gordimer's depiction of the relationships between blacks and whites in her sixth novel.

An essay by Laura Stallman providing a critical overview of various interpretations of Hawthorn's short story.

An essay by Richard Pedot exploring the topic of 'revision', particularly in relation to Ono, the narrator of this novel; with reference to the theories of Lyotard and Freud.

A paper by Aristie Trendel, an assistant professor of English at Montpellier I University, exploring themes and relationships and their connections with art and literary traditions in James's novella.

In this essay Anne-Claire Le Reste applies a Gothic reading to The Princess Casamassima, identifying various conventions from that genre and how they relate to the realism of James's text.

An essay by Maxine E. Walker, a Professor of Literature at Point Loma Nazarene University, which draws on philosopher Charles Taylor's A Secular Age to explore the interaction of various topics, such as science, romanticism and theology, in McEwan's narrative.

An essay by Martin Fashbaugh, of Black Hills State University, which looks at the interplay between narrative and poetic discourse and their relationship to the theme of jealosy in Meredith's novel and Dicken's Great Expectations

An essay by Bruno Osimo exploring translation issues in regards to Nabokov's novel.

An essay by Anca Rosu exploring this novel as a subtle parody of the Pygmalion myth and as a critique of the conflict between literary studies and the sciences.

An article by Beth McFarland-Wilson which utilizes Family Systems Theory to explore how each member of the Hobson family make a significant contribution to Powers's narrative.

An Essay by Harriet Blodgett exploring ideological parallels between Radcliffe's novel and Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with particular attention to the protagonist of Udolpho and the role of sensibility in the text.

An academic article by Eileen Williams-Wanquet examining the ways in which the characters of Wide Sargasso Sea are trapped by the ideological discourse of Brontë's Jane Eyre and its attempts to break free from a patriarchal narrative.

An essay by Nalini Paul, University of Glasgow, which applies the cinematic concept of 'gaze', in relation to feminist film theory, to a reading of Rhys's novel

An essay by Robert Marzec looking at the nature of reading and subjectivity in the context of Rushdie's novel and the pervasive influence of the information age.

An essay by Kristy Butler, University of Limerick, which explores the constructions of 'self' and 'other' in Stoker's novel, with reference to Žižek's notion of parallax, Edward Said’s seminal Orientialist critiques, and Freud's theories of the uncanny'.