Modernism in Marx, Freud, Nietzsche -- and Eliot
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A seven page paper analyzing the way the writings of Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche influenced the development of modernism in general and the works of T.S. Eliot in particular. Works mentioned are Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Waste Land,” and “Tradition and the Individual Talent”; Marx’ letters; Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents”; and Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morals.” Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: KBmodern.wps

“Gawain” and “Cei”
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A ten page paper looking at these two characters of Arthurian romance -- one from Chretien de Troyes’ “Erec and Enide” and “Lancelot,” and the other from Rosemary Sutcliff’s contemporary novel “Sword at Sunset.” The paper points out that Gawain is demeaned in Chretien’s works because he needed a more distinctively Gallic hero, while Sutcliff needed to make Cei more warrior-like to fit with her own setting. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Questioning Authority In Renaissance Drama
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A 6 page paper looking at Shakespeare's King Lear, The Tempest, and Spanish playwright Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna in terms of the degree to which they permit characters to question and flout authority. The paper argues that this has a great deal to do with the medieval view of government as a God-given hierarchy, and only as humanism began to take hold could authority be questioned. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Devega.wps