Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
———. Sex and Destiny. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Irigaray, Luce. This Sex Which Is Not One. Translated by Catherine Porte ...
general, most agree that the opening stage is one of denial, followed by a period of anger, followed by some kind of depression ...
of the theme itself by acting, as a form of therapy to readers who might be in mourning themselves. See also Chaucer, Geoffrey: ...
then the guilt we feel due to original sin is com- pounded by our need to repay Jesus for his sacrifice. Indeed, religion has hi ...
after he is blinded by the fire at Thornfeld Hall. His guilt stems from his locking away Bertha, as well as from his deception o ...
human ability. Nietzsche, a 19th-century German philosopher, wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) that in the modern world, Go ...
“A&P,” Sammy, the supermarket cashier who tells the story, abruptly quits his job when his manager is disrespectful to three ...
of how a worldview can shape one’s actions, often in profound and life-affirming ways. In Greek mythology, “Hope” is part of the ...
grass, the tumor in the CAT scan, and to plan one’s moves accordingly” (11). The Czech playwright and essayist Václav Havel defi ...
sense of hopelessness, on the other hand, makes it nearly impossible—and seemingly pointless—for groups or individuals to contin ...
Rebecca Harding: LiFe in the iron MiLLs; Dickens, Charles: Great expectations; Frank, Anne: anne Frank: diary oF a younG GirL; H ...
well, and religious commitment has played a major role in this issue. Identity as a product of one’s relationship with the Almig ...
Mississippi homes, which have been in their respec- tive families for generations. Modernists entertained new approaches to a ne ...
bout of the flu, a chronic painful condition, a disabil- ity, or a life-threatening disease. Because all readers, even if we hav ...
a “gatekeeper” to success. A healthy body and mind is the basic condition, he says, for functioning in a democracy and “too low ...
Noel Evans and the author with the assistance of Brian Massumi. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985. Gerhardt, Uta. Ide ...
“isolation amid crowds” understandably gave rise to Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism and Albert Camus’s sense of the absurd. Al ...
against the superior power of the white man in thinGs FaLL apart. Nonetheless, society is not an unmixed blessing. Pip, in Charl ...
time of innocence can only be recognized retrospec- tively, from the vantage point of experience. Blake takes this tension betwe ...
sense, however, Marlow’s transition into experience can be seen to represent the larger experience of European colonialism. As h ...
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