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Papers On Russian Literature
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Realism in Ibsen & Chekhov
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A 5 page examination of realism in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People and in Chekhov's short story The Lottery Ticket. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Ibchek.wps
Self-Integration in Ibsen and Wilson
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A 5 page paper examining the oppression of women in three nineteenth-century works -- Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' and 'A Doll's House,' and Harriet Wilson's 'Our Nig.' The paper shows that black women had a fundamentally different problem attaining self-integration than white women did, because they had to deal with the racial problem first. No additional sources.
Filename: KBwomen.wps
Tolstoy & Ibsen / Best Societies
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A 5 page essay on the framing of 'best society' in 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and 'A Doll House' as defined by Homer's 'Odyssey.' The writer discusses social role and hierarchical constructs in terms of the characters residing outside the 'best society' in support of the thesis that the authors maintain the framework of constructed social norms as superior to the 'other.' No additional sources cited.
Filename: Tolsibs.wps
Women's Consciousness Chekhov And Ibsen
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An 8 page paper discussing the way women's need for identity and self-integration are dealt with in three of these author's plays. Specific works discussed include : Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), A Doll's House (Ibsen), and Three Sisters (Chekho). Bibliography lists two sources.
Filename: Ibsen.wps
Nabokov's 'Glory' / Autobiographical Aspects
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A 5 page essay that examines the similarities and differences between the character Martin in Nabokov's novel and his own life. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Nabglory.wps
Nabokov's 'Laughter in the Dark'
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A 5 page paper on one of Vladimir Nabokov's least-known novels. It argues that Nabokov very cleverly presents the degree to which we all operate by our perceptions of reality, which are really nothing but illusions. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Nabokov.wps
Nabokov's 'Lolita'
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A 10 page paper that considers the themes of Lolita in the development of Nabokov's perspective as a Russian author and an author in general. This paper demonstrates Nabokov's focus as a European author with Russian roots rather than a representative Russian author. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Lolita.wps
Nabokov's Lolita
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Americans are in love with the idea of youth. It is a culture that idealizes and idolizes the components of youth, The American ideal of beauty is centered around youth and innocence. When Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita he did not set out to write a controversial book about pedophilia, but a book that had it's roots in the firmament of American reality and was about love. Lolita is principally a love story. It is a story about an older man in love with the forbidden, with youth and with the American culture that idealizes that youth. This 5 page paper explores different aspects of the cultural considerations inherent in the love story: Lolita. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: KTlolnab.wps
Pedophilia & the Role of Women in 'Lolita'
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A 10 page paper looking at critical responses toward the integration of the issues of pedophilia and women's social roles in Nabokov's famous novel. The paper asserts that in the nineteen-fifties when the book was written, women were not expected to have an 'equal role' in a sexual relationship, which often caused men to treat them as if they really had been children. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
Filename: Pedowom.wps
Doestoevsky's 'Notes From the Underground' vs. Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'
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A 5 page essay that looks at how the doctor-researcher symbol (representative of tradition and 'state') is treated by Dostoevsky and Kafka in these two works. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Dostkaf.wps
Babel's 'My First Goose' / Jewish Identity
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A 13 page paper looking at this short story by Russian-Jewish writer Isaac Babel in terms of its protagonist's problems with his Jewish identity. The paper concludes that despite Liutov's attempts to disassociate himself from his Jewish intellectual background, Liutov is irrevocably a Jew and irrevocably an intellectual; nothing he can do will make him a true warrior. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: Ibabel.wps
