Americká literatura
Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye.
Summary and Analysis
The short opening chapter introduces a happy family described in the simple language of a child. The account is repeated in the second paragraph without punctuation and in the third...
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Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.
Summary
‘Foreword’
The novel is introduced by a foreword by the fictional editor, ‘John Ray, Jr., Ph.D.’, who was supposedly asked by a friend to prepare for printing the manuscript entitled ‘Lolita, or the...
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Norris, Frank. "A Memorandum of Sudden Death".
Summary
The narrator presents a manuscript that he got from a professional bone-gatherer who brought it from Arizona. The author of the manuscript is Karslake, writer of studies in ethnology. Karslake enrolled...
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Norris, Frank. "The Ship That Saw a Ghost".
Summary
The first person narrator, Mr Dixon, relates his experience of sailing with the steamer Glarus bound to B. 300. This was a mysterious point marked in the map in the president's office of the Ryder's...
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Norris, Frank. "Two Hearts That Beat as One".
Summary
The first person narrator, Mr Man, appears at the opening and at the conclusion of the story. The story proper is narrated by his friend from the Great Southwest, Bunt McBride. The story concerns the...
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Norris, Frank. McTeague.
Summary: Main Plot Line
McTeague, Marcus Schouler & Trina Sieppe
Introducing McTeague: The novel is set in San Francisco, California, in poor quarters inhabited by the lower class with middle-class...
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O'Neill, Eugene. Desire Under the Elms.
Summary
Scenery
The play is set at a family farm in New England and starts in 1850.
There are enormous elms standing on both sides of the farmhouse, as if they were protecting and figuratively overpowering the...
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Olson, Charles. "Projective Verse".
Summary
Introduction
The essay contrasts the traditional non-projective verse (or, closed verse), which is the kind of verse bred by press, and the new projective verse (or, open verse), which should become...
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Percy, Walker. The Moviegoer.
Summary
Part I
Jack Bolling, or Binx, is a member of a respectable family of soldiers, doctors, and lawyers. He works as a modestly successful stockbroker in his uncle's business. He lives in Gentilly, a...
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Poe, Edgar Allen. "Annabel Lee".
Summary
The speaker relates his story: There lived a beautiful maiden Annabel Lee in a kingdom by the sea. She and the speaker were children but their love was more than love. Angels envied them their love...
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Poe, Edgar Allen. "Israfel".
Note
In Koran, Israfel is an angel with the most beautiful voice of all the God's creatures.
Summary
The speaker announces that there is an angel, Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute. When he sings, the...
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Poe, Edgar Allen. "Shadow—A Parable".
Summary
Motto: "Yea! though I walk through the valley of the Shadow." Psalm of David.
The first person narrator tells the reader that when he is first acquainted with the writing, its author will be long...
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Poe, Edgar Allen. "Sonnet—To Science".
Summary
The speaker addresses science as the one who alters all the things and prays why it aims to attack the poet's heart. He asks how a poet could love science: points out Diana (a Roman goddess of the...
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Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Cask of Amontillado".
Summary
The first person narrator has suffered many injuries from his Italian friend Fortunato. He decides to take revenge on him. He prepares a precise plan of the revenge and above all decides what kind of...
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Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Philosophy of Composition".
Theory
- beauty and truth are incompatible
- the aim of fiction is Truth, i.e. the satisfaction of the Intellect
- the aim of poetry is Beauty, i.e. an intense and pure elevation of soul, not of intellect or...
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