Book Report on Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”
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A 5 page paper which examines the classic 1873 fantasy, along descriptions of main characters Phileas Fogg, Jean Passepartout and Detective Fix. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TGjvdays.rtf

Borges' 'Mutations' And "A New Refutation Of Time": Two Interpretations Of Time
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A 5 page exploration of the passages in 'Mutations' and "A New Refutation Of Time" and their relevance to the author's perception of the futility of time and the finality of our destinies. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Borges.wps

Brock/Camus' Stranger & Criticism
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A 3 page essay that discussing Robert Brock's critical interpretation of Albert Camus' L'Estranger and then offers a personal interpretation of this novel. The writer argues that examination of Camus' text shows that it is quite possible that Camus had multiple purposes in mind. In short, other critical interpretations are also quite plausible and can be also be drawn from this text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khbrcam.rtf

Camus/The Stranger
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A 3 page essay that takes the unusual form of a hypothetical magazine article that might have been written to describe the scenario of Albert Camus' The Stranger. Mimicking a journalistic-type style of "people" reporting, the essay speculates on the personality and motivation of Patrice Meursault in relation to his crime. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khcammag.rtf

Candide and Orgon
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This 3 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Candide (from "Candide") and Orgon (from "Tartuffe"). Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: HVDupes.rtf

Candide's Critique of the Ancien Regime
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This 5 page paper examines Voltaire's Candide and how it is critical of the Ancien Regime. The Enlightenment is discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: SA537Can.rtf

Caribbean Literature and History: Patrick Chamoiseau
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An 8 page paper which discusses the work of Patrick Chamoiseau as it relates to literature and history of the Caribbean. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAchamois.wps

CHABERT, HISTORY AND MORAL ATTRIBUTES
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This 3-page paper discusses Balzac's Colonel Chabert, notes the story based on its times (post-Napoleonic France) and discusses whether virtue or evil survived the day. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MTchaber.rtf

Charles Baudelaire/A Dark Version of Romanticism
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A 5 page research paper that examines poetry by French poet Charles Baudelaire. The writer argues that while the romanticism of Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley concentrated, for the most part, on the inspiring beauty of the natural world, Baudelaire's vision of romanticism was much darker. He emphasized the "winter" aspect of nature – that death, decay, and destruction are also a natural part of the natural world. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khcbdark.wps

Comedic Relevance Of Voltaire And Moliere
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Time and place, in literature, often determines the style and content. In the case of satire, the comedic references can be extremely specific. This 5 page paper argues that for both Voltaire and Moliere, the satire was specific to the time and circumstances, making it necessary for the modern audience or reader to either be fully aware of the circumstances or for the writing to be reframed into a modern context. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: KTmolvol.wps

Comedy as Social Criticism/Moliere & Voltaire
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A 7 page essay that discusses how Moliere in Tartuffe and Voltaire in Candide utilized comedy in order to criticize social and political conventions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khmolvol.rtf

Comparative Analysis of Alfred de Musset’s “Confession d’Enfant du Siecle (Confession of a Child of the Century)” and Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov’s “A Hero of Our Time”
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An 11 page paper which compares the autobiographical elements of these novels represented by the protagonists and considers how society’s ills contributed to a youthful loss of innocence in nineteenth-century French and Russian societies. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGherocon.rtf