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On Prose Strategies of Equiano and Boswell
O.K. Mantz What remains most important, whether subjective or objective, is the truth. Both Boswell and Equiano attempt to establish the...
Owen Mantz
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
O.K. Mantz An unusual, yet mesmeric tale, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” concerns a Mariner who shoots (and kills) an Albatross, which...
Owen Mantz
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The Literary Imaginations of Equiano and Coleridge
O.K. Mantz A strong writer displays imagination, intuition, insight— qualities that are expected to radiate through their work....
Owen Mantz
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The Strings of Analysis
O.K. Mantz The short story “The Piano Tuner” is, in short, a story about life. A piano tuner, Claude, finds himself entangled in a...
Owen Mantz
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The Romantic Monsters
O.K. Mantz With two radical parents—Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin—Mary Shelley artistically portrays a vehement tension between...
Owen Mantz
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THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
O.K. Mantz Trapped in a liminal space between Romantic ambitions and a sense of distance and resignation, the Victorian Age witnessed a...
Owen Mantz
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“Ode: Intimations of Immortality”—An Analysis
O.K. Mantz Beginning as he does in so many other poems, Wordsworth first establishes the transience of the natural world. All things...
Owen Mantz
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Short Stories & Poems
To inspire, provoke, contest, challenge, enlighten, enthrall, and question everything that you hold dear.
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