by Daniel J. Travanti | Mar 26, 1975 | Essay
Isolation in Gatsby, Elizabeth Willard, and Frederic Henry Daniel J. Travanti English 556b Elizabeth Willard sought “what could be for her the true word” (p. 224) from the men with whom she went. Frederic Henry discovers painfully that his attempt to find...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Jun 29, 1974 | Essay
In “The Philosophy of Composition” Edgar Allan Poe says, “It is the excess of the suggested meaning—it is the rendering this the upper instead of the undercurrent of the theme—which turns into prose the so called poetry of the so called...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Jun 22, 1974 | Essay
Spring 1974 The American Romantics and Isolation The works of Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville are called romantic. Some critics...
by Daniel J. Travanti | Jun 15, 1974 | Essay
JANE AUSTEN A Consideration of Her Characters as Revealed Through Comedy by Daniel J. Travanti Spring 1974 for English 542, The Nineteenth Century English Novel It was startling to me to learn that Jane Austen wrote with so nearly perfect precision, purpose, and...
