In War and Peace: Tolstoy's Mirror of the World, author Rimvydas Silbajoris explores the thesis that Tolstoy's landmark is indeed a statement about life in its totality, as if the earth were a unified
The crude details of Vladimir Nabokov's story Lolita are well known: The protagonist, Humbert Humbert, marries a widow in order to seduce her provocative teen-aged daughter, Lolita. He succeeds beyond
A study of Rand's 1943 masterpiece, delving into both the novel and her theory of individualism, called objectivism. Analysis concentrates on Rand's concern with the power of individualism and self-ex
Ernest Hemingway's artistic powers are generally recognized to have been at their highest in A Farewell to Arms (1929), which has entered the canon of modern literature as one of its masterpieces. Com
As Roderick McGillis eloquently argues in this comprehensive reading of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story, many of the issues the author raises in A Little Princess are still worth de
With its theme of autonomy and independence, Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay A Room of One's Own has become part of our modern cultural vocabulary. It was the first literary history of women writers and t
A study of one of Freud's most widely read but least discussed works, exploring connections between his philosophical views on the human condition and the substance and development of his theory. Sepa
Places Thomas Mann's novella in its historical and literary context, describes structure, characterization, and style, and discusses other considerations
Considers Louisa May Alcott's classic as a romance, looking at the dynamics of the March family and the sisters' relationships among themselves and with their mother, and at what Freud calls the "libe
