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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    Meta-fictional and Meta-referential Paradigms in Lolita

    Lolita's beautiful form contains 'a world of total evil' as Humbert recognises her image is twisted, torn and worshipped in scintillating...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    Emily Dickinson - Can Language Lead to God?

    Emily Dickinson’s poetry presents a longing in language that asks and reaches for God through the power of the natural imagination. The d...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    The Homecoming and The Buried Child - Reversal and Recognition in the Modern Tragic Family

    This extract comes from a broader exploration of reversal and recognition in modern tragic drama across Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesm...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    Day of the Locust - Does the Deconstruction of the Female Image Deny the Possibility of Love?

    This extract explores how Nathanael West's deconstruction of the female image in The Day of the Locust may remove the possibility of love...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    Meta-fictional Identity and Marriage in David Copperfield

    David Copperfield presents an inquiry into the self as a meta-fictional construct. Dickens uses a double child and adult point of view an...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    The Self as Moral Guide in Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Emma

    Emma and Persuasion set up heroines with different models of the self to produce similar moral conclusions. Persuasion is set up as a mor...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

    Formally and thematically Waiting for Godot is both unified and opposed to itself as formal devices act as a questioning process into our...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    'A Prayer for my Daughter' - W.B. Yeats

    Yeats writes 'A Prayer for my Daughter' in 1919 and publishes in 1921 as part of his poetry collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. ...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    Leda and the Swan - W.B. Yeats

    'Leda and the Swan', composed by Yeats in 1923 and published in 1924, is one of Yeats's masterpieces. In this sonnet Yeats fuses the clas...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    'To Autumn' - John Keats

    Written in 1819 and published in 1820 'To Autumn' is Keats's sixth ode and marks the fulfilment of his Ode cycle. Keats's Odes. Here, I w...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    The Homecoming - 'Glass of Water' Scene Analysis

    First, here is the extract of the scene: LENNY: […] So after a few minutes I said to her, now look here, why don't you stuff this iron ma...
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    The Fly - William Blake
    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    The Fly - William Blake

    Blake's 'The Fly' is one of his Songs of Innocence and Experience, first published in 1789. Here is the poem: ​ The Fly ​ Little Fly Thy ...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    The Homecoming - Harold Pinter

    Pinter's The Homecoming, written in 1965, dramatises the destruction of the traditional family model and values. ​ The plot seems simple ...
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    Ryan Donaghue
    • Jul 7, 2020

    The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West

    Nathanael West writes The Day of the Locust in 1939 ​as a diagnosis of the psycho-cultural impact of Hollywood. West dramatises the stor...
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