ENG 102 | QCC Library

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Possible Sources for Essays

Poetry

Auden, W.H.

Nanda, Ram Shankar. "Literary Contexts in Poetry: W. H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen"." Literary Contexts in Poetry: W. H. Auden's 'The Unknown Citizen' (2006): 1-1. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. QCC Alden Library, Worcester, MA.

Blake, William

Bloom, Harold. "CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF "The Tyger"." Bloom's Major Poets: William Blake (2003): 17-19. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. QCC Alden Library, Worcester, MA.

Cartwright, Jerome. "Blake's THE LITTLE BLACK BOY." Explicator 45.3 (Spring 1987): 16. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Browning's My Last Duchess

Miller, Michael G. "Browning's My Last Duchess." Explicator 47.4 (Summer 89): 32. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Mitchell, Domhnall. Browning's My Last Duchess Explicator  50.2 (Winter 92): 74. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library. Worcester, MA.

Dickinson, Emily

Engle, Patricia. "Dickinson's 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death.'"  Explicator 60.2 (Winter 2002) 72-75.  Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Curley, Thomas M. "Eros Turannos." Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition (2002). Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. QCC Alden Library, Worcester, MA. 18 Apr. 2008.

Shakespeare

Jungman, Robert E. "Trimming Shakespeare's Sonnet 18." ANQ 16.1 (Winter 2003): 18-19. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. QCC Alden Library, Worcester, MA. 25 Apr. 2008

Strand, Mark

Singleton, Carl. "Mark Strand." Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition (2003). Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. QCC Alden Library, Worcester, MA. 

Drama

Ibsen's A Doll House

Drake, David B. "Ibsen's A Doll House." Explicator 53.1 (Fall 94): 32 (3). Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Mattimoe, Edward J. "Endings." America 26.176 (24 May 1997): 18(2). Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Otten, Terry. "How old is Dr. Rank?" Modern Drama 41.4 (Winter 1998): 509. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Rosefeldt, Paul. "Ibsen's A Doll's House." Explicator 61.2 (Winter2003): 84-85. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.
While recognizing that many readers are offended at Nora's abandoning her children, Rosefeldt has us look at the fathers and the role of fatherhood in the play.
 

Mamet's Oleanna

"He Said . . . She Said . . . Who Did What?." The New York Times (Nov 15, 1992.  Academic OneFile. Gale. Quinsigamond Community College. 

Ortillo, Michael. "Pass Master." New Statesman 133.4688 (17 May 2004): 45. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Trout, Paul. "Forum on Education & Academics: Shame." National Forum 80.4 (Fall 2000): 3 (2). Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Miller's Death of a Salesman

Thompson, Terry W. "Miller's Death of a Salesman." Explicator 60.3 (Spring 2002): 162-163. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Wilson's Fences

Wessling, Joseph H. "Wilson's Fences."  Explicator 57.2 (Winter 99): 123-127.  Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.
 

Short Stories

Chopin's Desiree's Baby

Foy, R.R. "Chopin's 'Desiree's Baby.'" Explicator 49.4 (Summer 91): 222-223. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library. Worcester, MA.

Glaspell's Trifles/Jury of Her Peers

Bryan, Patricia. "Stories in Fiction and in Fact: Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers and the 1901 Murder Trial of Margaret Hossack." Stanford Law Review 49 (July 1997):1293-1363. Lexis-Nexis Legal Research. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Russell, Judith K. "Glaspell's 'Trifles.'" The Explicator 55.2 (1997): 88-90. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.
Russell connects the actions of the three women in the play to those of the three Fates in Greek mythology; she notes that in spite of the parallel to powerful female deities, Glaspell emphasizes the men's oppression of women.

Hemingway

Rankin, Paul. "Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants." The Explicator 63.4 (Summer 2005): 234-237. Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Quinsigamond Community College. 07 November 2005.

Jackson's "The Lottery"

Griffin, Amy A. "Jackson's 'The Lottery.'" The Explicator 58.1 (Fall 1999): 44. Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. Quinsigamond Community College. 

Whittier, Gayle. "'The Lottery' as Misogynist Parable." Women's Studies 18.4 (1991): 353. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, orcester, MA. 

Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

Tierce, Mike, and John Michael Crafton. "Connie's Tambourine Man: A New Reading of Arnold Friend." Studies in Short Fiction 22.2 (Spring 85): 219-225. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. QCC Library, Worcester, MA.

Slimp, Stephen. "Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'" The Explicator 57.3 (Spring 1999): 179(3).
 

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