Papers on Language & Literature

Our marriages are only saved from disaster--when they are saved at all--by a readjustment from the fictive romantic basis on to something more stable, but change is usually painful, troublesome, and imperfect, generally leaving the feeling...

When Huck Finn reaches the "freedom" of Jackson's Island he believes he has fulfilled his American destiny by imposing his will upon the world. Indeed, Huck evaluates his situation when he arrives on the island as follows: "But the next day I was exploring...

Oscar Wilde began to write Salome still enjoying, but being frustrated by, the critical attention given to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The summer of 1890 had been exhausting for Wilde: Dorian Gray had been published in shorter form, and Wilde...