Category Archives: Literary Essays

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If you’re interested in literary criticism but don’t like to read, you’re like half the undergraduate students in English literature. Also, you might want to check out these brief essays, which generally don’t achieve much except take up space (like half the undergraduate students in English literature).

At the Bottom of the River The Cultivation of Cultivated Women

Posted on 2000-04-05 by Dimitri A.C. Ly

Identity construction through interpellation and resistance! In this literary essay, Dimitri discusses gender identity in Jamaica Kincaid’s freeform poem Girl, originally published in the 1978 collection At the Bottom River.

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Wilderness Tips Tracing a Yellow Brick Road

Posted on 2000-10-25 by Dimitri A.C. Ly

To every ending a setup! In this literary essay, Dimitri discusses the conclusion, or rather its buildup, in Margaret Atwood’s Death by Landscape, originally published in the 1991 collection Wilderness Tip.

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Heart of Darkness Truth and Other Phantoms

Posted on 2000-11-06 by Dimitri A.C. Ly

Spectral presences in modern literature! In this literary essay, Dimitri discusses the hauntings in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper.

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The Poetry of E.A. Robinson Wall of Fame

Posted on 2001-03-07 by Dimitri A.C. Ly

Owner of a lonely heart! Dimitri discusses the notions of success and isolation in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s narrative poem Richard Cory.

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