D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel - a Postmodern View: Creative and Critical Power of Imaginary Narrative I. Introduction In this essay, I treat D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel as a kind of 'imaginary false document'. In a rigid scientific view, literary works or any artistic...

What is it that after all these years that can keep a reader glued to a novel? What is it that keeps the pages of a novel flipping? What is it that can make an hour seem like ten minutes? The answer is suspense: each novel of this genre constantly repeats the same steps over and over, yet each ...

"Game" Written Analysis Background--Barthelme was an artist and sculptor. This fact explains his meticulous attention to giving the reader the setting so realistically. Donald Barthelme " paints" the setting in the reader's mind. As Donald artistically puts together the s...

MICHAEL CRICHTON Michael Crichton has presented the reader with some of the most engaging, timely, and thoroughly accessible tales to be published in the last twenty-five years. His works are well known to the public and are very popular due to the simplicity of the books context. Unlike the earl...

Ray Bradbury is more than just a legendary American novelist. He is also a short story writer, essayist, playwright screenwriter, poet, an owner of four cats, a father to four daughters, a grandfather to eight grandchildren, and he was a husband to Maggie until her death in November of 2003. They we...

This is the biography of John Champlin Gardner, Jr., an American writer, who was born in Batavia, New York. He was a teacher, lecturer, and prolific writer of fiction, children's books, poetry, radio plays, and scholarly medieval studies. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis, graduated i...

Truman Capote, one of America's more colorful literary personalities, was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction -- short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films. His work of fiction that i...

Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" is considered to be by critics and readers alike one of the most significant novels of the African American literature. It is the creative result of one of the most acclaimed writers of the American cultural scene. The author draws her inspiration and...

Joseph Conrad: An Innovator in British Literature Joseph Conrad's innovative literature is influenced by his experiences in traveling to foreign countries around the world. Conrad's literature consists of the various styles of techniques he uses to display his well-recognized work...

"A rose for Emily" reveals William Faulkner's highly technical style of writing. The motif of the story can be understood in several different ways such as cultural conflict between Southern and Northern America or as conflict between old and New generations. However there is more than that which au...

Shakespeare is relevant to my life in many different ways. He gives me pleasure while I read any of his novels, especially when they are talking about Love. Love has a big part in Shakespeare's writings. It is the most important thing in the world. It brings happiness and peace. Shakespear...

Can You Tell a True War Story? Tim O'Brien's short story "How to Tell a True War Story" is his fictional depiction of one of the narrator's experiences in the Vietnam War. This first person account of a tragic death of a friend is the example that the author uses to prov...

Edgar A. Poe After reading some of his works in class, one realizes that his mysterious style of writing is greatly appealing. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, it was said, "Poe has an uncanny talent for exposing our common nightmares and hysteria lurkin...

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a fabulous short story written by Ernest Hemingway which was published in 1936. The story is a tale that introduces a new technique and style that Hemingway was not accustom to writing. Author Philip Young remarks that the piece, "pres...

The Advantages of a First-Person Perspective in Literature There are several angles in which an author can tell a story. Writing a story in the first-person perspective, though, is the best angle because it has many advantages for both the reader and the author of the story. The reader will lea...

A Hated and Loved hero Have you ever met a smart mouthed, bewildered teen with uncanny wisdom that grabbed people in a way that didn't seem right? Here is an introduction to that distressed teen, Holden Caulfied. Being the protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden has intr...

Only a Girl Alice Munro's short story, "Boys and Girls," explores the different roles of men and women in society through a young girl's discovery of what it means to be a girl. A close examination of the elements of a short story as they are used in "Boys and Girls" helps us to underst...

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and poet. He was part of the Decadence, a loosely affiliated coterie of writers and artists of the 1890s whose lives and works manifested a highly stylized, decorative mann...

To the Stars Ray Bradbury was a great writer on many levels. He could write novels, short stories, essays, plays, screenplays, and poetry. An active imagination and a fascination with outer space combine in many of Ray Bradbury's stories. Ray Bradbury surpassed an unstable childhoo...

There are two kinds of writing, Commercial and Literary. Commercial or escapist pieces are purely for the reader's entertainment and for making money. Literary works however are often crafted with a deeper meaning designed purposefully to make the reader think and are rarely predictable. The...

For many centuries, the Western Canon of literary works has set a standard for education by presenting the great and outstanding literary works of the past. As multiculturalism and equality thrive in the new millennium, the validity of the seemingly racially and sexually discriminating canon is bei...

Something about Charles Dickens and his ability to take his reader to unbelievable places with his imaginative powers allows him the honor of being the most popular English novelist of the 19th century. Dickens has thrilled his readers for many years with his down-to-earth stories about real people ...

My Book Review on The Mysterious Man Mark Twain's fiction novel, The Mysterious Man is about an angle that comes to a town in Austria during the Middle Ages. The angle goes there to help the priest Father Peter out of a rut, which the evil astrologer had put him into. The mysterious angle ...

this is done through his use of setting and narrative style. In many of Poe's works, setting is used to paint a dark and gloomy picture in our minds. I think that this was done deliberatly by Poe so that the reader can make a connection between darkness and death. For example, in the "Pit and the ...