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Imagination and Literature in ?Madame Bovary? and ?Anne of Green Gables?, 2000.
This paper compares Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and L.M. Montgomery?s "Anne of Green Gables" through the literary power of imagination in the lives of these heroines.
1,740 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper contrasts the novels ?Madame Bovary? and ?Anne of Green Gables? in terms of their strong imaginative rebellious heroines that impacted their society at the time of the release. Both books had enormous popularity in their time. The paper explores how these heroines significantly express the power of imagination and literature in the lives of ?everyday? women. Their lives are examples and warnings for temperance.
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"At first glance, the improbable comparison of Flaubert?s Madame Bovary to L.M. Montgomery?s Anne of Green Gables seems amusing and far-fetched. Although written in different languages over fifty years apart, and representing completely different societies, there is a connection. Bovary is a vulgar tale of adultery and struggle, ending in suicide. Anne, a children?s novel, portrays the life of a small orphan on P.E.I. So what is it that continues to connect the two in my mind?"
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Polish Holocaust Literature, 2005.
This paper analyzes Polish-centered Holocaust literature and films and compares them to similar Holocaust literature from other countries.
2,200 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 48.95
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This paper explains that, in analyzing Polish-centered Holocaust literature and films, it becomes clear that certain themes are recurrent: Imagination vs. reality, exposure vs. nakedness, the inversion of Biblical meaning and of human order in general, pre-destined catastrophe and the appropriateness of humor. The author states that the Polish-centered themes are more vivid and their representation more graphically intense than the general writing about the Holocaust because of the concentration of death camps and the density of its tragedy; Poland is often perceived as the "ground zero" and the pivotal point by which Holocaust writers come to grips with the slaughter of the Jews and others. The paper analyzes many examples of Polish Holocaust literature: Alfred Andersch' "Efraim's Book", Arnold Wesker's " Sophie's Choice", Pierre Gascar's "Seasons of the Dead", Claude Lanzmann's film/ quasi-documentary "Shoah", Aaron Appelfeld's novella "Badenheim 1939", K. Tsetnik's "Salamandra", Henri Raczymow's "Un Cris sans Voix", Emanuel Ringelbaum's "Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto" and the Academy Award winning movie "Life is Beautiful".
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"In Shoah literature, certain questions present themselves again and again: Do these themes - which often reflect a universal character of sort - diminish the particular suffering and injustice of the event? Can any writing truly capture the enormous moral crimes of the Holocaust? Sparking a hotly-discussed debate, Theodor Adorno wrote that poetic treatments of the Shoah were a form of "barbarism." In light of this criticism, it has often been asked by both writers and critics alike, what justification does a writer have for treating the subject matter at all? This charge has seldom been directed at any other subject of fiction, but it might be argued that such outrageous criticism is simply evidence of the subject's moral and tragic dimensions."
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Literature as Folly, 2002.
An essay which shows that literature creates false expectations in society as expressed by the neo-classical works of "A Tale of a Tub", by Johnathan Swift, "Vanity of Human Wishes" by Samuel Johnson and "The English Malady" by George Cheyne.
1,633 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 37.95
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The paper shows that by providing readers with a realm based solely on the imagination, authors are able to manipulate reality through literature, creating unattainable expectations in society. The paper examines three examples illustrating this in the Augustan Age: "A Tale of a Tub" by Jonathan Swift, "The Vanity of Human Wishes", by Samuel Johnson, and "The English Malady" by George Cheyne. The paper describes how each work uses a different mode to express and effectively critique the inflated significance placed on intellect and the written word that both caused and resulted from the print explosion of the neo-classical period. It shows how all three writers voice a realization that the materialistic Empire was falling into a downward spiral from the spiritual and moral decay initiated by the overindulgence in the luxuries of excess.
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"In section two of this work, Swift uses the metaphor of three brothers who abandon the principles of their father?s will at the whim of current fashion to convey the movement of literature from its classical roots to the image based ?tailor deity.? As the brothers deface the coats, that were the only legacy left to them by their father, they are metaphorically distorting classical literature which was their predecessors sole method of preserving their wisdom for posterity. Therefore, any reader coming into the sphere of this type of influence would be accepting knowledge with no basis in the accepted archetype or tradition of human understanding."
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Outsiders of the Medieval Imagination, 2001.
A discussion of Medieval spirituality and imagination that guided Medieval people's belief system and differentiated between conformer and non-conformer.
5,055 words (approx. 20.2 pages), 7 sources, £ 90.95
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A look at the Medieval imagination. The author discusses the idea of spirituality of the Medieval people that considered outsiders as non-conformists, or people that were viewed as sub-human (people with abnormalities etc.) and used the imagination to differentiate between the real and the spiritual world.
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"The idea of an outsider is present in all medieval works, this is a society of conformists and those non-conformists were all looked upon as outsiders; but what about the idea of outsiders that come not from the community but from another invisible world altogether. The idea of monsters have existed from ancient times, and even to the modern day with bogey men, but in the middle ages we find a plethora of monsters of all shapes and sizes. One need only look in the elaborately illuminated bestiaries of the medieval period to discover creatures from every realm of the imagination, from the saintly unicorn to the demonic dragon. These creatures, widely influenced by pagan mythology but with their own Christian twists, served an important part of the concept of the medieval persons concept of otherness. If the limit of otherness was not defined by only the human spectrum there was no limit to the amount of difference that a medieval person could differentiate between themselves and those seen as sub-human, such as Jews, heretics, and lepers."
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Sociological Imagination, 2002.
This essay uses Bannerji's "Popular Images of South Asian Women" as an example of sociological imagination.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 24.95
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This paper demonstrates how Bannerji's essay is an example of the sociological imagination. Cassidy et al's article is used in the argument. The sociological imagination is a way of looking.
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Loss of Imagination in Dejection: An Ode, 2001.
This paper is a review of the poem "Dejection: an Ode" and looks at whether or not it is possible to lose one's imagination.
775 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 19.95
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This paper takes up the idea of loss of imagination, a popular idea of romantic poetry, that is the central theme of the poem, "Dejection: An Ode." The author compares this poem to the biblical story,
"The Fall" in order to show that there is a "point of no return" that is associated with the biblical example and that this must also be assumed in Coleridge's comparison to a loss of imagination.
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"Consider for a moment the absence of all imagination. Of course, such an act is impossible. The very fascination of such an idea prompts the human mind to initiate its most creative powers. Nonetheless, Coleridge presents a hope-tinged lament to the notion of a loss of imagination in
"Dejection: An Ode." The demise of "genial spirits" in response to Wordsworth is depicted as permanent, and readers are offered no hopes of the visionary consolation through memory found in "Intimations Ode Instead, the speaker's "grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear" is irreversible and comes from deep within. The only expectation from which he may draw solace is that his "Lady" who is "pure of heart" may "evermore rejoice".
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Imagination and the Individual, 2001.
Coleridge and Shelley's respective notions of imagination are examined through their poetry.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 4 sources, £ 44.95
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This comparative essay focuses on Coleridge?s "Dejection: An Ode" and Shelley?s "Mont Blanc". Although it focuses on the author's respective philosophical views on the mind and perception as it is affected by language, the essay maintains attention to poetic form. Reality, truth, imagination and illusion are all discussed.
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"Both Coleridge and Shelly center imaginative investigations on perception. They study the relationship between thoughts and the individual and the relationship between thoughts and surroundings. The imagination is the most direct faculty of creating images in the mind?s eye. Perception is greatly affected by the impact of the external world upon the mind. The imagination plays with impressions in Coleridge?s "Dejection: An Ode" and Shelley?s "Mont Blanc", to both interpret and create reality. Both Coleridge and Shelley attempt to reflect the imaginative process which is inaccessible. In both works, a step back from the external world is taken, in a reflection upon experience. In "Mont Blanc" and "Dejection: An Ode", the poet engages the external world in an attempt to make sense through perception. Both "Dejection:An Ode", and "Mont Blanc" present a sublime moment between the ?self? and the ?other.? Through interpretation and poetry, illusion is created, masking reality. Both works reflect the world?s imprint upon human senses which is organized through nature and nurture. Shelley and Coleridge express value in the imagination, a product of both nature and nurture, containing the essential nature of the universe."
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"Make it New!": Free Verse in American Literature, 2008.
An exploration from a personal viewpoint of the beginnings of free verse in American literature and its perfect fit to modern life.
3,965 words (approx. 15.9 pages), 15 sources, MLA, £ 75.95
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This paper describes the writer's personal journey in search of the origins and nature of free verse. In search of a definition of free verse, the writer finds that the only requirement agreed upon is that it lack a formal pattern of meter. Its origins go back at least as far as Homer and other Greek writers, who frequently diverged from regular patterns of meter and rhyme in their writings. The writer examines the social, cultural, technological, and political issues that caused free verse to take off in popularity and give life to the first two major poetic movements of 20th century America: Modernism and its sub-movement, Imagism. The writer draws parallels between free verse and modern life and concludes that this study brought about the realization that free verse is anything but free and the writing of it is far more challenging than the writer had first imagined.
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Introduction
What is Free Verse?
Leaves of Grass, King James, and the French Connection
Free Verse Comes Back to America
Conclusions
What I Thought I Knew and How My Opinions Have Changed
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"Before starting this investigation I, like many others I suspect, assumed that free verse naturally had its beginnings solely in America. That it was a product of our rebellious national psyche that manifested itself in the form of a new movement in poetry; one that broke loose from the old traditions and tempos of lyrical writing. It appears however, that once again I was mistaken. Well, not so much mistaken, but rather I was shortsighted. For free verse has gone through several reincarnations spanning centuries and continents. The final re-birth being the one that took place in America in the early 20th century which resulted in free verse as we know it today."
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C. Wright Mills' "The Sociological Imagination", 2005.
This paper discusses the theme of C. Wright Mills' "The Sociological Imagination"
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 1 source, £ 75.95
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This paper examines the work of the sociologist C. Wright Mills. The author points out that Mills felt compelled to criticize many of the social sciences developments he observed in the 1950s because he saw many of these developments as threats to the ability of the social sciences to benefit humanity. The paper relates that, in his opinion, social scientists of this era were hindering the emergence of true freedom in society by adhering to conformist theories and encouraging a robot-like acceptance of established authority.
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"As the theme of his book "The Sociological Imagination" demonstrates, the prominent and controversial sociologist C. Wright Mills felt compelled to criticize many of the social sciences developments he observed in the nineteen-fifties, for he saw many of these developments as threats to the ability of the social sciences to benefit humanity. In his opinion, social scientists of this era were hindering the emergence of true freedom in society by adhering to conformist theories and encouraging a robot-like acceptance of established authority. For Mills, the sociological imagination he wanted people to develop would fulfill the vast potential he saw in sociology."
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Susanne Langer on Imagination and Dreams, 2002.
This paper looks at the theories of Susanne Langer and how they apply to the imagination and dreams.
3,087 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 63.95
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The paper asks the question of whether or not humans are the only creatures who dream. The writer uses the texts of Susanne Langer to explore this question and to argue that the human mind, born of dream figments, and nurtured by the symbolism which the mind itself produces, has all the equipment it needs both for its own maintenance and, especially, its future growth and development.
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"At one point in her Mind series, Langer suggests that feeling is simply a phase of a total act. Titchener?s view supports that notion. If all acts have a phase of feeling, then a superact, which entrains smaller acts in its progress, will possess the final product of all those psychic phases. That product would, in turn, be experienced as a broadening of the variety, as well as a concentration, of feeling. ?The total activity of the matrix has been raised to a higher level? (Mind 2, 273). For the purposes of theorizing, and having admitted that knowledge as to where feeling begins still escapes us, Langer will work with the hypothesis that it begins with behaviour. But she makes the further acknowledgment that exactly where behaviour begins is difficult to determine. (Mind 2, 272)"
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Realism and Imagination in Short Fiction, 2002.
Discusses these two themes in "The Open Boat" (Crane), "Sonny's Blues" (Baldwin), "The Rocking-Horse Winner" (Lawrence) and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (Thurber).
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Describes the element of realism of fancy/imagination in four classic short stories: Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner," and James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
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Imagination, Power, Love & War in Poetry, 2002.
A study on the powerful illustrative themes of three poems.
1,235 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, APA, £ 29.95
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This paper demonstrates how poems present themes and how each work achieves the theme of power, love, or war by the use of imagination, which is effectively used to illustrate the importance of each theme. The paper uses the examples of three poems to depict its theory: ?Siren Song? by Margaret Atwood, ?Dover Beach? by Matthew Arnold and ?Three Ravens? by an anonymous author.
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"The poems ?Siren Song,? ?Dover Beach,? and ?Three Ravens? are literary works that depict the theme of power, love, and war (respectively). This paper will discuss in detail how each poem tackles the themes that were presented, and how each work achieves the theme of power, love, or war by the use of imagination, which is effectively used to illustrate the importance of each theme."
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Two Conversation and Imagination Poems by Coleridge, 2002.
This paper discusses two poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the Romantic period of the English literature.
1,560 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper discusses the differences between Samuel Taylor Coleridge?s two poems: ?Frost at Midnight?, and ?Pains of Sleep?. These two poems are of different themes and forms and yet exhibit the creativeness found in Coleridge?s works. The author also explains how Coleridge was also a literary critic who defined the category of conversation and imagination poems.
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""Pains of Sleep" is another literary work from Coleridge, and it was written in 1803. Contrary to the melancholy tone yet positive outlook of the poet?s behavior in "Frost at Midnight", "Pains of Sleep" shows the agony experienced by the poet in his struggle to overcome his opium addiction and its after-effect. The poem discusses Coleridge?s fear of sleep, and of dreaming. It is evident in the poem?s anguished tone that it Coleridge describes his agony in descriptive detail. "Pains of Sleep" is categorized as an example of an imagination poem, a poem that contains brilliant imagery and supernatural elements, and is ?far-off? from the ordinary world of people. Imagery during the Romantic period is a powerful tool to express a message in creative and descriptive detail, and is often referred to as ?the sensations that language creates in the mind? "
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Eating Disorders and the Sociological Imagination, 2005.
An analysis of the effects of society on eating disorders.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper examines how the popular perception of eating disorders is limited to middle-class or affluent teenag girls, usually perfectionists who are obsessed with grades, relationships, and having the perfect body and how this perception is a stereotype. It argues that even stereotypes have some basis in reality and examines the prevalence of eating disorders in today's population and explain what sociological factors might cause it to occur.
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"According to C. Wright Mills, the sociological imagination "enables the possessor to understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for the inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals" (15). The sociological imagination is used to distinguish between "personal troubles" and "public issues" when attempting to understand a problem in society. It is, in fact, a means of understanding unique issues by their more global context. How can this concept be related to the prevalence of eating disorders, then? The popular perception of eating disorders is that they are limited to middle-class or affluent teenaged girls, usually perfectionists who are obsessed with grades, relationships, and having the perfect body. In large part, this perception is a stereotype. Even stereotypes have some basis in reality, however. "
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