This paper is predicated on an argument for presenting the Irish short story as a statutory recommendation within the A Level English syllabus in Northern Ireland (and also, perhaps, in syllabi set by Examination Boards in other parts of the United Kingdom). Employing a carefully considered literary-critical perspective, the paper offers a…

Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" is a pilgrimage in quest of an answer to the problem of desire--universal as well as personal--especially deviant sexuality, immoral behavior and their consequences. The traditional tags on the poem such as "a poem about Europe" and a poem about the "disillusionment of a generation" serve…

This study makes an attempt to analyze the manifold aspects of Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion" on a postmodernist standpoint, meanwhile, demonstrates the dominion of modernism, which is portrayed through the vehicle of comedy with a bitter ironic language through the play. Regardless of the historical period in which the play occurs, the…

"Waiting for Godot" is one of the classic works of theater of the absurd. The play seems absurd but with a deep religious meaning. This text tries to explore the theme in four parts of God and man, breaking the agreement, repentance and imprecation and waiting for salvation.

Modern critics do not consider science fiction and mystery novels to be "serious reading", but Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis questioned the boundaries between "popular" and "serious" literature. Both Christian writers critically discuss the spiritual crisis of the modern world in each fiction genre. This paper…

The function of fiction is to entertain, not to analyze philosophical, political, or psychological concepts and attitudes. (DD)

Examines the images of women in the poetry of Randall Jarrell, focusing on poems portraying women with little chance of true fulfillment in traditional roles as wives and mothers, and who lose what status they have through the inevitable loss of sexual attractiveness. (DMM)

Discusses twentieth century literature and attempts to define modernism, concentrating on modernist literature's linguistic radicalism. (SRT)

Argues that the creative procedures of writing, performing, and interpreting poetry are subtly interrelated. Illustrates this argument with examples from the author's own poetry. (MM)

Questions the integrity of Meursault in Albert Camus's "The Stranger." Discusses Meursault's dissociation from his feelings, relationship with his mother, reactions or lack of response to events in his life, trial, and encounter with the priest in prison. Explores the concepts of myth and archetype in terms of the novel and its ideology.…

Four twentieth century playwrights--Pirandello, Giraudoux, O'Neill, and Albee--differed in their solutions to the human dilemma and in their philosophic apprehensions of human dilemma, but all four showed interest in the basic concerns of all humanity: body and soul, appearance and reality, the real and the ideal. Albee, the only one of the four…

Reading the works of Doris Lessing can provide readers an opportunity to think about the thinking process. (DD)

Suggests, through a comparison of Bleich's work with that of the Geneva School critics, that the two criticisms have a common base and interest from which they encounter similar difficulties, and that their resolutions illuminate a solution to the totalizing effects of current criticism. (DD)