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From Shakespeare and Milton to Dan Brown and Hilary Mantel, English Literature encompasses a wide range of subjects, genres and styles. And with thousand of new novels being published every year, the list of possible subjects to study just keeps on getting bigger and bigger!
Whatever aspect of English Literature, the free essays on this page will hopefully have something to interest you. We've got drama, comedy, tragedy and history. We've got modernism, post-modernism, decadence, structuralism and post-structuralism. We've got William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Kurt Vonnegut and Max Frisch. And more. Good luck and happy reading!
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Alienation and the Fin de Siecle
To what extent can it be argued that alienation is the dominant theme of fin de siecle literature? Refer to the work of Oscar Wilde & John Galsworthy.
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Individuality in Dystopian Sci-Fi
Aldous Huxley noted that "when the individual feels, the community reels". Discuss this statement, with reference to Huxley & George Worwell.
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Conan Doyle and Poe
To what extent were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories influenced by the detective fiction of Edgar Allan Poe?
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Othello and Iago
To what extent can the characters of Othello and Iago be usefully compared in terms of their function and importance in Shakespeare's 'Othello'?
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The Urban Experience in Literature
How does the urban experience, specifically the role of the city, play a vital role in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' and Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway'?
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Morality in the Work of Roald Dahl
How do Roald Dahl's classics, including 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'The Twits' and 'Tales of the Unexpected', deal with morality?
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Twilight and New Moon
What do Stephanie Meyer's hugely popular vampire novels tell us about the way in which society deals with the links between blood, age and sex?
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Post-Structuralist Theory
What does the work of De Man, Derrida and Barthes tell us about the ways in which post-structuralism challenges the concept of literature?
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Second Person Narration
How does Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' use second person narration to heighten the reader's identification with his main character?
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Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller
What do Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse 5' and Heller's 'Catch 22' tell us about using humour to deal with traumatic experiences such as World War 2?
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The History of Decadence
How were Oscar Wilde and J.K. Huysmans influenced by the Ancient Romans in terms of the use of decadence in their key texts?
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Max Frisch and Identity
What do Max Frisch's novels 'I'm Not Stiller', 'Man in the Holocene' and 'Gantenbein' tell us about the nature of identity?
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Detective Fiction
What do the novels of Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett reveal about the ways in which detective fiction writers reveal their characters' thoughts?
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Parody and Copyright Law
What does the 'Gone With the Wind' court case (2001) tell us about the legal problems associated with parody and international copyright law?
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Franz Kafka and Doctor Who
How did Frank Kafka's Metamorphosis influence the concept of regeneration in Doctor Who, the world's longest running science-fiction TV series?
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The Persona of J.D. Salinger
How did 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'Franny and Zooey' influence the development of the public persona of the reclusive author J.D. Salinger?
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Hans Christian Andersen
How did Hans Christian Andersen come to be one of Europe's most influential writers in the late nineteenth century?
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