LITERARY CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS OF NOVELS AND POETRY

An academic article by Chloe Buckley on the role of 'portal' narratives in this novel and their relationship to Lacanian theories of self and space.

An essay by Thomas F. Bertonneau of Central Michigan College, discussing how James explores issues relating to religion, social revolution and art, focusing in particular on the anonymous narrators of this novel and James's The Aspern Papers, as well as Hyacinth Robinson from the same author's The Princess Casamassima.

In this article Edward Fox explores some of the biographical details which influenced the writing of Salammbô.

An essay by Elizabeth C. Harmer of McMaster University examining the use of myths in this novel with particular reference to Donna Haraway's essay 'A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century'.

A paper by Sagit Blumrosen-Sela examining some of the literary parallels, both in terms of content and form, between this novel and Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

An academic article by Michiel Scharpé which questions Freud's reading of this story and arrives at an interpretation closer to those of Sarah Kofman and Ernst Jentsch.

An essay by C. Nelson-McDermott of the poems with some close reading.

An essay by Rachel Wall of Georgia State University analyzing the role of heritage in this novel and So Far Back by Pam Durban, with reference to Hegel's three-fold dialectic model.

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."

An essay by Gregory J. Rubinson of the University of California exploring Rushdie's employment of The Koran as a literary intertext in The Satanic Verses.

An essay by Conrad William arguing that Rushdie's controversial novel questions the purity of divine revelation and the integrity of language, as well as exploring ironic tensions between secular and theological domains of discourse.

An essay by Shirley Galloway looking at many different aspects of this novel, including theoretical and historic context, literary influences, the contruction of identity, and an appraisal of how the its form and content play "with the notion of binary opposition".

In this paper Nick Bentley of Staffordshire University assesses the representation of urban environments in both The Satanic Verses and Iain Sinclair's Downriver.

An essay by Lidia Vianu of Bucharest University discussing the representation of terror in this novel and its relationship to literary modernism.

An extensive review of the novel, discussing several themes, by James Wood for The New Republic.

An essay by Joanne Watkiss examining the post-modern implications of this Booker prize-winning novel as well as Derridean notions of space.

An essay by Elizabeth A. Weston comparing the narrative strategies John Banville and Virginia Woolf employ in order to express grief and loss in The Sea and Jacob's Room respectively.

An essay by Brian Gibson of the University of Alberta which draws on readings of this novel as an analysis of colonial politics to focus on representations of masculinity.

An essay by David Mulry of Odessa College which examines the social and political climate that informed events in this novel, most notably the Greenwich Bombing of 1894.

An essay by Chang Chih-chen focusing on the revolutionist vision of Conrad's depiction of London at the end of the nineteenth-century.

In this essay Brandon Colas considers this novel as a critique of late Victorian gender roles.

An essay in which Kim Howey of University College London discusses this poem and Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Gentleman of Shallott'.

An essay by Susannah Carson of the L'Université de Versailles investigating the paradox of silence in relation to the female characters and their perspectives in this novel, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion.

An essay by Jen Camden of the University of Indianapolis looking at the roles of primary and secondary heroines in this novel, James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers, and Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance. Camden focuses in particular on how these women represent competing ideals of national identity and femininity.

An academic article by Mary Newbould of Cambridge University exploring many aspects of Sterne's novel, with analysis of several extracts.

A review by Joanne V. Creighton of this novel and Joyce Carol Oates's I'll Take You There.

An essay by Jenny Sharpe of the University of California using Rushdie's realignment of izzat and sharam to discuss issues of gender, race and class in regards to Indo-Pakistani women, as well as considering the role of the fantastic in the novel.

Essay looking at the importance of memory in Shame and Martin Amis' Time's Arrow.

An extensive essay by Allan R. Cook analysing various aspects of this novel but with particular attention to the title character.

An article by Donald A. Wollheim about this influential novel.

An extensive study by Dean Franklin "Frank" Coffman, Jr. investigating the enduring appeal of the famous detective, with reference to several stories, including The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four.

An essay by Nicholas Stewart discussing The Sign of Four and 'The Speckled Band' in relationship to imperial ideology and the canon.

An essay by Jennifer Judge, York University, which explores Brontë's satiric criticism of mid-Victorian gendered idealogical systems, as well as investigating possible reasons for interpretive confusion of this novel.

An essay by Jen Camden of the University of Indianapolis looking at the roles of primary and secondary heroines in this novel, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, and James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers. Camden focuses in particular on how these women represent competing ideals of national identity and femininity.

An essay by Laura Emery, a lecturer at San Diego State University, and Margaret Keenan, on the roles of trauma and mastery in this novel and their psychological relationship to its eponymous protagonist.

An article by Shirley Galloway examining how the allegorical nature of this novel reveals the relationships between plot, character and symbolism.

An essay by Herbert G. Klein which enquires into possible genres that Vonnegut's novel could belong, evaluates various critical assessments, and looks at the relationship between Science Fiction, fantasy and postmodern fiction.

In this chapter from Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience, Audrey Jaffe examines the narrative persona the author adopts in the sketches.

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 academic article by Maria Antonia Alvarez arguing that familiarity with James's memoirs is important to an understanding of his other works.

An essay by Rachel Wall of Georgia State University analyzing the role of heritage in this novel and Sarah Phillips by Andrea Lee, with reference to Hegel's three-fold dialectic model.

A paper by Edward Balcerzan who describes this novel as paradoxical. The author explores language and ethnics in Solaris.

A paper by Elyce Rae Helford which examines the construction of gender in Lem's novel, predominantly from a psychoanalytic standpoint with reference to Lacan.

In this paper Manfred Geier interprets the 'fantastic ocean' in Solaris through several semantic readings, relating the linguistic ideas of various theorists.

An essay by Karla Benske of University of Glasgow examining the characters and structure of this novel, with analysis of several excerpts.

An essay by Stephen Baker examining culture and class in Gray's novel.

An essay by Joseph Byrne of the University of Maryland illustrating how Blake's text shares certain qualities with modern computer and video games.

A paper by Barbara Schapiro of Rhode Island College looking at specific scenes from this novel and The Rainbow. It is written from a very psychological perspective with a focus on Winnicott's notion of transitional experience.

An article from the Guardian newspaper by Helen Baron exploring the making of the novel which made Lawrence's name.

An essay by Sylive Mathé, Université de Provence, examining some of the ambiguities of Styron's revisionist approach to Auschwitz, drawing on concepts developed in works by Primo Levi and Giorgio Agamben.

An older article by the philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, hosted on Marxists.org. It mainly assesses the role of this work within the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and as a reflection of the thinking of that era.

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.

An essay by Mark Shackleton discussing how food - seen here as a marker of national identity - features in this novel as well as works by Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith.

An academic article by Afroditi Panaghis of the University of Athens analyzing this short story from the psychological, as well as myth and ritual.

A long article by Fredric Jameson, looking closely at the concept of the 'artificial' in Starship, with some emphasis as to how the plotline of this novel characterizes it as new wave Science Fiction.

An essay by A.R. Roughley on the subject of surveillance and its relationship to narration in this novel, with reference to Barthes, Derrida, Hegel and Kristeva.

In this essay Elizabeth Mosimann questions notions of the rational and considers some of the transgressive aspects of Bataille's text.

An essay by Jamie McCulloch of Fairleigh Dickinson University looking at the literary devices Russo employs in this novel to convey comedy and tradegy in his picaresque narrative and protagonist; McCulloch also discusses works by Martin Amis, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Steve Tesich.

A scholarly article by Lisa Butler of Wilfrid Laurier University that builds on historicized readings of this novella which have focused on its engagement with the cultural developments of late-nineteenth-century Britain.

A paper by Jodey Castricano of the University of British Columbia exploring the nature of criminality through an analysis of composition, signatures and encryption in Stevenson's novella. With reference to the theories of Derrida and others.

An academic article by Nancy K. Gish discussing the role of the double in this novel.

An essay by Ernest H. Redekop featuring several close readings of the poems.

A paper by Gerald Lynch focusing on the struggle between Mariposa and Mr. Josh Smith. It argues that this novel's primary tension arises from the opposition between individualist and community.

An essay by Jerome H. Rosenberg featuring some observations on the end of Atwood's novel.

An essay by Carole Gerson exploring how the conflict between form and experience is depicted in this novel.

In this article Jill Dawson discusses Surfacing from the perspective of a woman's spiritual journey.