English Resources (page 44)

Most of us are eager for our children to develop a love of books but if you`ve got a reluctant reader in the family, getting them to pick up those paperbacks is easier said than done....

Sometimes parents of beginning readers wonder if their child is on track with reading. They don`t understand why their child can`t read a word today they were able to read yesterday. ...

"Death," wrote Saul Bellow in his 1975 novel Humboldt`s Gift, "is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything." And though there is a literal darkness to his 1990 short ...

Buddenbrooks may be the precociously brilliant debut, Death in Venice the small-but-perfectly-formed novella, but for me, Mann`s real masterpiece is his sprawling snowbound epic of 19...

`Are the poems closer to prayer than art, and therefore best read by Herbert`s fellow believers?` (Helen Wilcox) Herbert`s poems are a reflection of his spiritual beliefs as an ...

1. Take a deep breath and SPEAK! The more you think about speaking, the more nervous you will get. Just try speaking more. Next time you go to English class or speak English, cou...

The figure of the 'out-of-date' artist in Joyce and Nabokov Despite the many meanings and definitions of Modernism that proliferate within literary criticism, two writers who have ...

Lunar Park (2005) is a fictional work that is seemingly passing for memoir; it tells the story of Bret Easton Ellis's fame and family, and takes place between memories of Los Angele...

This article is concerned with the psychoanalytic framework of graphic novels in regards to Freudian notions of the Dreamwork. I explore the ways in which Charles Burns aesthetics del...

Women's Problems: Past to Present As an aspiring historian, and writer of women's history, it is no surprise that I have began my search for history's most important and influential...