Gregory Schneider

Saul Bellow's final novel is indeed an odd beast. A hybrid of the anti-novel (there's very little external conflict), biography (the account of Abe Ravelstein), and memoir of a barely-disguised Bellow himself.

The Easy Rawlins series is where Walter Mosley's genius best expresses itself. This is a genius of ear and eye, of vision and soul.

By splitting the self in two, the post-colonial characters seeks not only to save himself in the face of advancing modernity and industrialism, but also to indirectly interrogate the psychological risks of such duality.

The narrative structure of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein occurs in passes, like a relay race with three runners, who each pass the baton in a circuitous pattern.

This paper explores the Objectivist technique used by the writer Charles Reznikoff in his novel The Manner Music.

Jonathan Dollimore states that the "human identity is more constituted than constitutive; constituted by the pre-existing structures of language and ideology, and by the material conditions of human existence."

In the introduction to Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, and Politics, the authors Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins lay out the keynote aim of their book: "To focus on the methods by which post-colonial drama resists imperialism and its effects."

This paper will examine Shakespeare's Othello using Post-Colonial literary theory as its touchstone.

Though Love, etc, may seem a conventional, linear, and straight-forward retread of Talking it Over, his attention to language and voice makes this novel a gem.

He may be overlooked (and lately unpublishable) in American, but author Will Self trumps his contemporaries.

As a novelist myself, I found myself re-examining my own techniques after reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Bret Easton Ellis is trying, at least, with his new novel Lunar Park. However, effort doesn't make the grade.

Beckett has been known to be a "difficult" author. Here's a crack at what it's all about.

This book is a hybrid of psychological analysis, conditional study, political manifesto, and exploration sexual identity and identities. At the center of this is Fanon's own examination: outsider and insider, student and doctor; teacher and disease.

In "Somnambulism: A Fragment" the gothic style conveys terror: Sleepwalking Althorpe murders the woman he desires. Yet, to read the story as a curiosity would miss its parodying against Benjamin Franklin's ideals of industry and pragmatism.

In the three unfinished novels by Franz Kafka there is a quick and understated burst of sexual energy exhibited by the male protagonists which color their disrupted universe.

"But what about the children?" no one asks in Nella Larsen's Passing. This paper will explore Larsen's dialectic of motherhood between the hyper-sensitive Irene and the perma-detached Clare, and to what ends these versions of motherhood coincide.

Renaissance England was a hierarchical and oppressive environment for women. In this paper, I'll uncover the layers of female gender-role resistance as represented in Thomas Middleton's and Thomas Dekker's The Roaring Girl.

An axiom post-colonial literature: The novel acts as a site of subversion to resist the imperialistic monolith To resist colonization, the post-colonial novel seeks to redraw the world as the post-colonial subject (or Other) knows, or does not, know it.

Though mostly known as one of New York's great Jewish Objectivist Poets, Charles Reznikoff wrote two novels that are often ignored. This research paper seeks to establish them as great artistic statements.

This Graduate Essay for American Literature examines Chestnutt's Marrow of Tradition for its historical impact, as well as its formalist strategies.

Umberto Eco is a master of language. His new novel falls short, nevertheless.