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Analysis of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild is a fabulous version of the young adult adventure story (including brave animals, Indians, a contest, etc.), and it is also a sophisticated exploration of the roles of Nature in shaping destiny in a naturalistic,… Read More ›
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Analysis of Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep
Henry Roth’s autobiographical first novel Call It Sleep (1934) has come to be recognized as one of the most poignant and honest depictions of immigrant, specifically Jewish immigrant, life in all of American literature. Its account of living conditions in… Read More ›
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Analysis of Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny is a military novel in the manner of Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens. It offers a formal view of military life from the perspectives of officers who, for the most part, are committed to that… Read More ›
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Analysis of Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones
Set in Brooklyn during the 1930s and 1940s, Brown Girl, Brownstones is Paule Marshall’s first novel. Following the classic structure of a bildungsroman, it recounts the story of Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants, from age 11 to 20…. Read More ›
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Analysis of Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City
Along with Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Bret Easton Ellis’s Less than Zero, Jay McInerney’s first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, explores and details the frenetic club life and drug scene of mid-1980s New York. Bright Lights, Big… Read More ›
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Analysis of Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey
An immediate national and international best-seller that was also well received by critics, The Bridge of San Luis Rey earned Thornton Wilder his first Pulitzer Prize. (He is still the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and… Read More ›
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Analysis of E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel
E. L. Doctorow’s 1971 novel focuses on Daniel Isaacson, the disturbed son of parents executed for giving the secret of the atomic bomb to the USSR. While working on his Ph.D. in the late 1960s, Daniel tries to reconcile what… Read More ›
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Analysis of Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers
According to Louise Levitas Henriksen, Anzia Yezierska’s daughter, Doubleday celebrated the publication of Bread Givers in 1925 with an advance printing of 500 numbered copies of the book to be presented to “important people” and a garden party in honor… Read More ›
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Analysis of Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story
Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story—the first in his semiautobiographical trilogy, which includes The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997)—has become one of the classic “coming-out novels” that were a staple of emerging gay literature during… Read More ›
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Analysis of E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel
E. L. Doctorow’s 1971 novel focuses on Daniel Isaacson, the disturbed son of parents executed for giving the secret of the atomic bomb to the USSR. While working on his Ph.D. in the late 1960s, Daniel tries to reconcile what… Read More ›
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Analysis of Joan Didion’s A Book of Common Prayer
At least four of Didion’s five novels have as their central characters wealthy or upper-middle-class women with both significant strengths and profound weaknesses. They are prone to flee rather than fight, and usually make a series of poor choices that… Read More ›
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Call for Papers Literariness Journal September 2026 Issue
📢 Call for Papers Literariness Journal A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies P-ISSN: 3108-1614 | E-ISSN: 3108-172X Doi.org/10.67147/literariness Vol. 1, Issue 4 (September 2026) https://LiterarinessJournal.org Full paper deadline: 17 August 2026 Literariness Journal invites original research articles… Read More ›
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Analysis of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe’s first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, was published in 1987 to widespread critical and popular acclaim. Only days after its release, the dizzying pace and boundless decadence of 1980s Wall Street so enjoyed by the novel’s protagonist,… Read More ›
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Analysis of Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone
Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone revolves around the tragic suicide of a daughter of a San Francisco Chinatown family and the personal, cultural, and social questions this event forces the characters to negotiate. Leila Leong, Mah’s daughter from her first marriage,… Read More ›
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Analysis of Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging
Upon its publication, Blu’s Hanging met with immediate critical acclaim. Critics considered the book “powerful,” “brilliant,” and “mesmerizing.” But when Blu’s Hanging was chosen as the Best Book of Asian American fiction of the year by a panel of judges… Read More ›
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Analysis of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian is nightmarish, yet so hypnotically written, displaying such a wild and profound command of the language that the critic Harold Bloom, among others, has declared it one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and perhaps the… Read More ›
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Call for Papers Literariness Journal Vol. 1, Issue 3 (June 2026)
Call for PapersLiterariness JournalVol. 1, Issue 3 (June 2026) We invite original research papers for the second issue of Literariness Journal. The theme list includes a broad range of contemporary topics in literature and cultural studies. Themes * Monster theory,… Read More ›
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Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance
The Blithedale Romance (1852) was the third of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s four major American romances, after The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). Unique among Hawthorne’s novels, it is the only one to feature a first-person… Read More ›
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Analysis of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Última
Second recipient of the Quinto Sol Prize in 1971, this novel opened a new era for Chicano letters. Quinto Sol Publications established an annual prize for Chicano writers to promote their works in mainstream literature and, a year after Tomás… Read More ›
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Analysis of Gertrude Atherton’s Black Oxen
Black Oxen (1923) simultaneously earned critical acclaim and prompted scorn and shock. Called drama, romance, and science fiction in its 1924 film release from Frank Lloyd Productions, the book went into 14 printings in a single year. The film’s popular… Read More ›
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