Literary Criticism & Collections

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No dramatist to this day, among us, has matched O'Neill in depicting the nighmare realities that can affict American Family life, indeed family life in the twentieth century Western world.. The helpnessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sons... More

As anticipation of the final Harry Potter book intensifies, the experts at MuggleNet.com present a wide range of hard facts and bold predictions about the most popular storylines, favorite characters, and final outcome of the Harry Potter saga.... More

Hemingway's women and men know that we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Our one chance is to pack that interval with the multiplied fruit of conciousness, with the solipsistic truths of perception and sensation. What survives time's ravages in A Farewell to arms is precisely He... More

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The Association of castration, blindeness, and death, so crucial in Freud, is already a given in Chaucer, just as the strangely authentic power of the Pardoner's sermon, which transcends his overt tricksterism, testifies to the weird prolepsis of Dostoevsky in the Canterbury Tales. A Professional hy... More

The Metamorphosis cannot be interpreted coherently as a fantasy of death and resurrection, or as allegory on the less is more fate of being a writer. Gregor's death is not an effectual sacrifice, not a self fulfillment, and not even a tragic irony of any kind. It is another Kafkan negation that refu... More

He is the bard of India. Singing of the splendours of its landscape and people in words of unsurpassed beauty. His poetry, ranging from love songs to mystic verse, children's rhymes to soaring lyrics of hope. Rabindranath Tagore was not just a poet, he was also popular writer of fiction, essays and ... More

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