LITERARY CRITICISM AND ANALYSIS OF NOVELS AND POETRY

An essay by Elizabeth Kraft of University of Georgia which assess several readings of this poem as well as looking at its subject matter and use of imagery.

A general analysis of 'Washing Day' by Candyce Klin of Cedar Crest College.

An academic article by Robert H. Canary which relates cultural philosopher Tzvetan Todorov's idea of the 'fantastic' to the duality of this novel's framework.

An academic article by Jonathan Dewar of the University of New Brunswick analyzing the allegorical roles of Coetzee's depictions of sex, torture and fetishism in his narrative.

An essay by Tim McIntyre presenting a comparitive analysis of this novel and Nadine Gordimer's July's People, examining in particular issues relating to colonization.

An essay by Tamara Wagner, a Junior Fellow at the National University of Singapore, which views this text as a reaction to the nationalist agenda of many Romantic novels.

An analysis of this poem by Donald R. Bartlett with many close readings.

An in-depth article by Michael R. Katz discussing the subject of this novel in translation and its relevance to contemporary events.

An academic article by George R. Clay challenging the views E.M. Forster expresses in his Aspects of the Novel regarding the role of "flat characterization". Clay looks at the roles of several 'flat characters' in this novel, as well as Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Dickens's David Copperfield.

A paper by Razvan Ungureanu analyzing the development of Russian colonialism in War and Peace and several other works by Russian authors.

An essay by Ruben Moi exploring this poem from various critical perspectives, most notably the New Critics, Barthes and Bakhtin, as well as analyzing several passages.

An essay by Todd Williams of Kent State University exploring the relationship between Eliot's allusions to James Frazer's anthropological work The Golden Bough and Renaissance drama, and how this potentially effects readings of The Waste Land.

A paper by Jian-kuang Lin discussing Eliot's representation of women and femininity in The Waste Land and 'Hysteria', with reference to Freud, Josef Breuer, and others.

An essay by Jeffrey Scraba of Rutgers University examining the development of the historical novel, using Waverley as a case study, and how Scott engages with the theories and ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment.

An article by Christopher Rollason exploring the influence of Scottish, or Celtic, culture on the narrative of Scott's first published novel.

An essay by Josiane Paccaud-Huguet exploring the relationship between epiphany and melancholy in this novel, with reference to Kristeva, Lacan and others.

A chapter from The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness by Thomas C. Caramagno, discussing the intrasubjective factos and plurality of this novel.

A paper by Joseph Flanagan of the University of Helsinki which analyzes this novel through the relationship between British history and the Empire. The paper assesses several critical appraisals and features a couple of close readings.

An essay by Rhonda Cobham-Sander, a professor at Amherst College, providing several readings of this novel while taking into account the notion of an author's critical legacy being of both thematic concern and stylistic innovation.

A paper by Arthur Jaupaj of the University of New York exploring the rise of the new Western in the 1960s through an extensive analysis of Doctorow's short novel.

An essay by Tara Prince-Hughes of Pierce College which explores the nature and relationship of gender and sexuality in regards to this novel through the perspective of Native American gender traditions.

An essay by Chris Coffman, an Associate Professor at the University of Alaska, comparing the depiction of transgender individuals in this novel and Virginia Woolf's fantastical Orlando, with an evaluation of various readings by Jay Prosser, Judith Halberstam, and others.

An essay by Amy Lankester-Owen exploring the theme of adolesence in this novel, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. Supported by psychological theories of adolescence, particularly the work of analyst Erik H. Erikson.

A paper by Kit Dobson of the University of Guelph looking at communities through an analysis of this novel's protagonists: Tuyen, Carla, Jackie, and Oku.

An essay by Pavlina Radia of the University of Toronto exploring the representation of Otherness and Transnational Memory in this novel and Salman Rushdie's Fury.

An academic paper by Brian Finney, a professor at California State University, which analyzes this novel in great depth. Although many aspects are covered, perhaps the most prominent is Ishiguro's employment of non-realist modes.

A psychological analysis of this short story's central character by Clifford J. Kurkowski.

An in-depth review of the novel by Lorraine Adams for The New Republic.

An essay by William S. Haney II, a professor at Eastern Mediterranean University, arguing that "DeLillo suggests the possibility of a new self-identity and collective consciousness" based on the coexistence of opposites. The essay discusses a variety of subjects in relation to this novel as well as establishing it within a postmodern context.

An essay by Tim Engles, an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University, examining the issue of white racial identity in DeLillo's novel.

A paper by Jiann-guang Lin investigating the role of technology in White Noise, arguing that DeLillo's narrative is essentially postmodern, reading the novel from a science fiction context, and exploring issues of identity in an information society.

A paper by Jonathan F. Bassett, an Assistant Professor at Lander University, which draws on the psychological theories of Ernest Becker and Robert Jay Lifton for an exploration of the protagonist of White Noise.

An academic article by Haidar Eid discussing discussing this novel's existential understanding of the concept of death in a postmodern context.

An academic article by Bradley Butterfield of the University of Wisconsin which provides a Baudrillardian reading of DeLillo's postmodern novel.

In this academic article Haidar Eid of Rand Afrikaans University assesses the characters and themes of White Noise with particular attention to Baudrillard's concept of simulacra.

An essay by Paul Privateer of Arizona State University analyzing DeLillo's novel from within the context of how advertising media impacts on society.

A paper by Ollie Taylor of Durham University exploring this novel and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Topics discussed are perception, communication and body language; with analysis of several extracts.

In this essay Ellen Feehan explores Herbert's literary employment of Irish history and Celtic mythology to subtly comment on contemporary ideology.

An essay by Brian Finney, a professor at California State University, featuring a detailed analysis of Smith's novel, arguing that her portrayal of multicultural London employs "a conception of identity that has close resemblances to poststructuralist conceptions of the subject". With reference to works by Rushdie and Kureishi.

An essay by Supriya Nair, an Associate Professor at Tulane University, exploring various aspects of White Teeth, including the roles of several characters and their relationship to history and issues of identity.

Essay by Mark Shackleton discussing how food - seen here as a marker of national identity - features in this novel as well as works by Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie.

An extensive review of the novel by James Wood for The New Republic.

An essay by Charles Sarvan of the University of Bahrain, presenting a reading of this novel from the perspective of movement and alienation, with reference to Foucault.

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 Patricia Gott, an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, discussing female captivity and empowerment in relation to Wide Sargasso Sea, as well as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca.

In this essay Jennifer P. Nesbitt, an Assistant Professor at Penn State York, investigates the presence of decolonization in Rhys's novel and The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Essay by Amy Lankester-Owen exploring the theme of adolesence in Wide Sargasso Sea, Henry James' What Maisie Knew and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Supported by psychological theories of adolescence, particularly the work of analyst Erik H. Erikson.

An academic article by R. S. Krishnan of North Dakota State University discussing this novel's protagonist and their interaction with feminist discourse and cultural space. With reference to works by Elaine Showalter, Raymond Williams and others.

An academic article by Jenni Valjento exploring the concept of isolation in Mukherjee's novel, with observations from Edward Said, and several critical assessments.

Academic article by Patrick Labriola looking at the role of the double in this short story and Hoffmann's The Devil's Elixirs, with reference to Freud's essay "The Uncanny".

An essay by Sherry Zivley of the University of Houston looking at the relationship between dust storms, isolation and madness in this novel, with assessment of other critical readings.

An essay by J.M. Zezulka analysing the poems in this collection.

In this essay, Lisieux Huelman of Saint Louis University examines the depiction of professional men in Gaskell's novel, as well as the relationship between her work and the periodical press.

A chapter from a thesis by Holly Davis of the University of Otago, exploring Hardy's relationship with Romanticism, his disillusion with the modern world, and how this influenced the narrative of this novel.

An academic article by Michael Hardin of Bloomsburg University exploring how this novel, as well as Sylvia Molloy's Certificate of Absence and Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body, challenges binary constructions.

In this essay Alexandra Fitts of the University of Alaska looks at feminine archetypes in this short story collection.

An academic article by Toming Jun Liu, an Assistant Professor at California State University, questioning how "the context in which Asian American ethnicity is delimited within American domestic politics and sustained in narratives of Americanization".

A paper by Ana-Maria Petecila of the University of Bucharest examining how liminality is transformed into the centre and alterity into acceptance, by means of acculturation and deconstruction, in this novel and The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan.

An essay by Shu-ching Chen exploring the pressures authors experience to reflect the identity of their ethnic community, taking Kingston's novel as a case study.

An essay by Stephen Rowley, Université de Bordeaux I, exploring how Lawrence set out to incorporate developments in psychoanalytic theory and various European cultural movements into his narrative, as well as surveying a number of critical assessments of the novel.

An essay by Joyce Carol Oates providing an extensive analysis of the characters and themes of this novel.

A chapter from Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 1850-1920 by Christopher Craft discussing the novel with reference to a variety of excerpts.

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

An essay by Brian Finney, a professor at California State University, which examines a range of aspects regarding this novel, including the language Winterson employs and linguistic difficulties she counters, as well as the book's critical reception.

An academic article by Michael Hardin of Bloomsburg University exploring how this novel, as well as Sylvia Molloy's Certificate of Absence and Helena Parente Cunha's Woman Between Mirrors, challenges binary constructions.

An article by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in Critical Inquiry. Oates discusses many aspects of the novel but states that it is chiefly 'an assured demonstration of the finite and tragically self-consuming nature of "passion."'

An essay by Yukari Oda, a lecturer at the Fukui University of Technology, exploring the influence of the Gothic on Brontë in her portrayal of the female characters in Wuthering Heights. With analysis of several excerpts.

An essay by Brian Olszewski of Michigan State University analyzing narratorial interplay in Brontë's novel with reference to Reading for the Plot by Peter Brooks.

Essay by Jennifer Beauvais of Montreal University considering various modes of the Gothic and how they are utilized in Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya.

A paper by Cristina Ceron investigating the role of the Byronic hero in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. In particular, Ceron looks at the influence of Byron's Manfred on the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine.

In this essay Robin DeRosa of Tufts University investigates the presence of Sadomasochism within a study of the principal characters, as well as drawing on Freudian and Lacanian theories for an analysis of Brontë's novel.

A substantial article from the Victorian Web looking at 'family systems theory', and addiction, and Wuthering Heights.

An article from the Victorian Web by John P. Farrell, a Professor of English at University of Texas discussing the role of dreams in Brontë's novel.