Literature - COMM 10064

Describes European settlement and economic development, specifically staple trades and subsistence agriculture, primarily of Scottish immigrants.

This article discusses how writers can seamlessly blend their research into their fiction.

This review considers three recent films that focus on the lives of captive exotic animals and the people who keep them. In each context, these people have profound, if self-interested, emotional attachments to their nonhuman captives. These three films, then, offer captive wild animals as ambivalent figures and cinematic loci for stories of human hubris and redemption.

Source: History.com, learn about The Roaring Twenties, and the changing culture of America

Investigates the culture of the United States and the attraction to the circus elephant. Reasons for such keen human interest in the elephant.

This Reference Entry in Global Milestones discusses the approval of the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which lead to prohibition.

The article argues that Whale Music has received very little in the way of critical reviews – that the book has mostly received summaries and plot structures while other of Quarrinton’s novels have received significant literary attention. The article also argues that Whale Music is not read as widely today as there is a move away from fictional rock’n’roll narratives.

The article reviews the book "All Quiet on the Western Front," by Erich Maria Remarque and translated by A. W. Wheens.

A look at the public's reaction to the novel.

Reviews the motion picture `All Quiet on the Western Front,' directed by Lewis Milestone.

Examines the war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front," by Erich Maria Remarque.

The article profiles author Cormac McCarthy and his interest in the end of the world and climate change, and his novels "The Road," and "No Country for Old Men."

This article is a commentary on the argument of Shelley Rambo on the survival of a father and his son in the book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

The article explores the allegorical representation of spiritual survival in Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road."

Despite its overwhelmingly positive reception, the apparently redemptive conclusion to Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006) attracted criticism from some reviewers. They read in it an inconsistency with the nihilism that otherwise pervades the novel, as well as McCarthy's other works. But what are they referring to when they interpret 'redemption', the 'messianic' and 'God' in McCarthy's novel?

Language in India, 2013.

Studies in Short Fiction, 1977.
Focuses on the symbolism of incarnation and redemption in the novel 'The Old Man & the Sea'.

English Language Teaching, 2008.

The article reflects on death as depicted in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".

A review of the book "Racism in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Claudia Johnson.

A literary criticism of Maya Angelou's autobiographical book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".

An analysis of displacement, disruption and black female subjectivity in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".

There is an overview of the book and links including an interview with the author.

The University of Toronto's Student Newspaper Since 1880 - reviews this U of T alum’s award-winning debut of short stories and declares it a must-read.

This book review focuses on the immigrant themes and style of the collection.

This Washington Post book review by Jenny Bhatt has some thematic criticism.

This review focuses on symbol and theme.

This book review from the International New York Times is written by Sarah Resnick.