Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: very good, University of Paderborn (American Studies), course: Proseminar: New Orleans in Literature, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper will compare and contrast the written form of Tennessee Williams' play $6WUHHWFDU1DPHG'HVLUH1 with the 1951 movie version.2 It will explain and discuss the major differences between the two, focusing on the issue of censorship as it was an important factor in the development of the play from its Broadway form into a film. As this paper...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1996 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Veranstaltung: Proseminar British Short Stories, 8 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Since having read about Old Marley's apparitions in A Christmas Carol we have been fascinated by Dickens' way of creating suspense and a ghost-like atmosphere. A Christmas Carol is probably one of his best known ghost stories, but it is, however, not his first. Dickens' earliest stories were inset tales in the Pickwick Papers first published in 1837. In this paper we first of all have a flashback on Dickens' life...

Master's Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3 (A), University of Paderborn, 73 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Paris has traditionally called to the American heart, beginning with the arrival of Benjamin Franklin in 1776 in an effort to win the support of France for the colonies' War of Independence. Franklin would remain in Paris for nine years, returning to Philadelphia in 1785. Then, in the first great period of American literature before 1860, literary pioneers such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry...

Document from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Francis Scott Fitzgerald zahlt neben Ernest Hemingway zu den groten Schriftstellern der amerikanischen Moderne. Sein Lebensstil ist durch die goldenen Zwanziger und den der Lost Generation gepragt. Sein Werk, so sagt man, spiegelt sein Leben wider. Dieses Buch setzt sich mit Fitzgeralds Leben und Umgebung auseinander und geht von diesem Standpunkt aus auf die Texte des beruhmten Schriftstellers ein. Aus dem Inhalt: The "Lost Generation" of American Expatriates, The...

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn (3, Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: Paris has traditionally called to the American heart, beginning with the arrival of Benjamin Franklin in 1776 in an effort to win the support of France for the colonies' War of Independence. Franklin would remain in Paris for nine years, returning to Philadelphia in 1785. Then, in the first great period of American literature before 1860, literary pioneers such as Washington Irving,...