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Arts & Humanities > Business of Writing (Other) Does selling used textbooks hurt authors and publishers?: 2 of 8

Of course, selling used textbooks can hurt authors and publishers. It places a burden on both parties to create new material and forces each to reexamine their contributions much more often than is convenient. But is this necessarily bad? Of course, it will take more effort to make the same amount of money, but I would like ...
Arts & Humanities > British Literature Literary analysis: The role of epiphany in the stories of James Joyce: 1 of 2

When James Joyce defined "epiphany" in Stephen Hero as "a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself," he intended to remove God from its meaning, and place a constructionist context around his previous work. For an object to be "epiphanised," o...
Entertainment > Music Education How to write a song: 17 of 31

If you're looking to write the next Beethoven's 5th, this is not the place to learn how. But if Western-style popular music is your thing (that's everything from Elvis Presley to Nirvana to Kanye West), getting started isn't as hard as you might think. Some people like to start with a lyrical idea, some people a riff or melo...
Arts & Humanities > Literary Themes & Ideas Literary analysis: The role of the journey as a catalyst in literature: 9 of 13

The journey serves as a catalyst in literature by removing a hero from his natural equilibrium, and initiating a reason for action; namely toward reestablishing a sense of normalcy and peace in the hero's life. Classically, the hero's journey begins in stasis. For example, the classic hero Odysseus' journey begins at his own...
Arts & Humanities > Literary Themes & Ideas Literary analysis: Conflicting themes of rebellion vs. conformity in American literature: 3 of 4

Themes of rebellion and conformity are practically inescapable in literature. Viewed from a certain light, any work might look tailor-made for the debate between the individual and society; so, in order to attack this topic, it might help to narrow it down just a bit. Rebellion can be as grand as overthrowing a tyrannical go...
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Literary analysis: The ideal of individualism in Henry David Thoreau's "Walden": 5 of 6

In the court of American Transcendentalism, Henry David Thoreau is arguably seated at the right hand of the father (Ralph Waldo Emerson), through his devotion to individualism. Thoreau made famous the idea of civil disobedience in "Resistance to Civil Government," an essay that inspired great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and ...
Arts & Humanities > Literary Themes & Ideas Literary analysis: Transcendentalism as a target of satire in the works of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne: 2 of 2

"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men." Taken from the closing lines of American Transcendentalism's seminal text, "The American Scholar" b...