Literature

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is America’s greatest detective novel that has been widely studied for its highly influential conception of the American private eye through its main protagonist…

Light and darkness play vital roles in both James Joyce’s “Araby” and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”. However, if the light and darkness in “Araby” is religious in nature, with nuances…

Medieval literature covered the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and until the beginning of the Renaissance period. During this time, written literary works and “every single book…

The Dark Ages has come to describe the time between the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century AD to 800 AD with the start of the role…

By the middle of 2005, some 3. 2 million people 50% of Darfur’s population required humanitarian assistance to sustain their livelihood. With 12,500 aid workers from 81 NGOS and 13…

From independence from the British in 1956, Sudan has not been a “nation state” in any traditional form. It has not created a national economy, it does not control all…

Medieval and early modern figures appealed less universally than the ancients, though each of the great ones had their followings. Dante’s Divine Comedy rises highest in the canon from this…

Renaissance theologian Dante’s “Inferno” invokes a Hammurabic conception of the seven deadly sins and their corresponding punishment. Each sin, punishable by its degree of deviation from God’s commandments, is assigned…

Dante Alleghieri lived during the break of Renaissance and wrote “Inferno” in that tumultuous time when paradigm shifts in politics, economics and religious traditions were taking place. Although he lived…

Inferno is part of a trilogy of the Divine Comedy.  It is written by Dante Aligheri and it is a popular and well-loved book that paints a picture of what…

Comparing the lives and work influences of Dante (1265-1321) and Virgil (70 BC- 19 BC) is no easy task. Apart from the obvious fact that these two great Italian writers…

In today’s media-oriented era drug abuse problem in adolescent is very rampant. This problem often begins in adolescence, with 80% of high school students reporting some use of alcohol and…

“Danger on the Peaks” by Gary Snyder poses eternal rhetorical question: Who wouldn’t take the chance to climb a snow peak and get the long view? In such a way…

Dan Brown’s novels The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons are, at the same time, very popular and highly controversial. The author’s main concern in both of the novels…

As a mark of development, modern countries particularly those with high interests on hydrological process started the creation of dams. A gigantic structure of almost immeasurable proportions, dams have been…

Henry James’ Daisy Miller is characterized by the author’s most frequent theme in his earlier works: the expatriate American living overseas. Daisy Miller capitalizes on the Gilded Age, the period…

“The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald is one of the greatest works of the 20th century with a number of dynamic and round characters representing the key theme of the…

Fitzgerald’s heroine, Daisy Buchanan, in The Great Gatsby is a typical product of the American society of the1920s. Formerly, before the Age of Jazz, it would have been highly unlikely…

Art history is a complex dialog of aesthetic actions and counteractions to diverse cultural, socio-economic and political factors. Dada was an arts and literature avant-garde movement which flourished into a…

Dan Brown’s bestselling novel “The Da Vinci Code” rocked not just the literature community, but the entire world that up to this day, his bestselling book has been the topic…