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On this page
you will find links to reviews, essays, and explications on various topics that
I have written since 1991. They are listed in alphabetical order.
If you are relatively
unfamiliar with some of the topics, I suggest that you start with the first entry,
"Acquainted with the Night." This essay will probably give you the best
flavor of how I write and of my thought process.
"Acquainted
with the Night," Robert Frost
(essay)
Adrienne
Rich Poems
(essay)
Are
Red-Light Runners Trying to Get a Power Fix?
(essay)
Antisemitism
in The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
(essay)
Beloved,
Toni Morrison (essay)
China
Men, Maxine Hong Kingston
(essay)
Cultural
Literacy, E.D. Hirsch
(essay)
Death
in Venice, Thomas Mann (explication)
Divorce
and Realism (essay)
Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Nonviolent Direct Action Programs (essay)
"Dream
Song 140," John Berryman (explication)
Excellence,
John W. Gardner (review)
Face,
Cecile Pineda (essay)
Fraud
in Scientific Research
(essay)
Grease
Paint Rebels (op ed)
"Hanging
Fire," Audrey Lorde
(essay)
"In
a Station of the Metro," Ezra Pound (explication)
Madame
Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (explication)
Malory
and Gottfried on Love Themes in the Tristan Story, A Comparison
(essay)
McTeague,
Frank Norris
(comparison to the movie "Greed")
"Memories
of West Street and Lepke," Robert Lowell (explication)
Misplaced
Morality, A Study of the Argument for Drug Prohibition (essay)
Modernism
in Art and Literature
(essay)
Obasan,
Joy Kogawa
(essay)
Organizational
Structures in Literature
of Flannery O'Connor (essay)
Paradise
Lost, Book
VIII,
John Milton (explication)
Savage
Inequalities, J. Kozol
(review)
Sexual
Abuse (essay)
Shakespeare's
Creative Use of Holinshed's Facts in The First Part of King Henry IV
(essay)
Sula,
Toni Morrison
(essay)
Television
and Fraud: The
Quest for Art, Beauty, and Truth in TV Land
(essay)
The
Golden Gate, Vikram
Seth (critical analysis)
"The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T.S. Eliot
(explication)
"The
Satyricon: Dinner with Trimalchio," Petronius
(essay)
The
Strong Breed, Wole Soyinka (essay)
Tracks,
Louise Erdrich (essay)
Tristram
Story (explication)
Uncle
Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
(essay)
"When
in Disgrace," Shakespeare's Sonnet 29
(explication)
"When
the Assault Was Intended to the City," John Milton (explication)
"Yom
Kippur 1984," Adrienne Rich (explication)
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