Michelle Cannon has been a resident of Palm Beach for seven years, and is a recent college graduate with a degree in English Literature. She writes primarily literary criticism in all genres. Please e-mail any queries for Michelle here.
Over the years, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has found a multitude of venues to reinvent itself in contemporary society. From novels to film adaptations, this classic keeps resurfacing and proving to be relevant to each...
Gerty MacDowell appears to be Buck Mulligan’s foil because she views the physical world around her entirely as a symbol in the context of a cheap romance novel. Everything and everyone she encounters in “Nausicca” becomes...
TThroughout the course of Joyce’s Ulysses, there are numerous characters who view life through a single lens, and thus narrow their overall perception of the world around them. Two such characters are Gerty MacDowell and Buck Mulligan. The...
Norton Edition of Bleak House purchased at the book exchange Located at 807 Northlake Blvd. in North Palm Beach, The Book Exchange offers a wide variety of used and rare books as well as an expansive collection of...
Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek is the follow-up novel to her triumphant and acclaimed The House on Mango Street. Much like her first novel, Woman Hollering Creek is a collection of short stories strung together in a...
Used bookshops are a great place to spend an afternoon. Unlike chain bookstores, these unique shops offer a wider variety of books to choose from rather than just stocking up on the latest book-to-film novels featuring movie posters...
E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime utilizes discarded objects to critique modernism. The reader understands this critique of modernism through the little boy, who remains nameless throughout the course of the novel. The little boy is not...
The relationship between modernism and postmodernism is often complicated as both genres share certain similarities as well as differences. E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 are examples of the...
While silence and withholding information prevents Lily from becoming morally corrupted in The House of Mirth, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury utilizes silence and withholding information to exemplify a character’s lack of morality...
Silence and undisclosed information is a major component in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. Both of these writers utilize the idea of silence and undisclosed information...