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Social issues in literature

Author:

Wiener, Gary
Hawker, Louise
Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938
Bryfonski, Dedria
Mancini, Candice
Johnson, Claudia D
Lerner, Alicia Cafferty
Johnson, Vernon E. (Vernon Elso), 1921
Haugen, Hayley Mitchell, 1968
Haugen, David M., 1969
Nelson, David Erik
Berlatsky, Noah
Thompson, Stephen P., 1953

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1) Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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Wiener, Gary

2) Industrialism in John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath

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Hawker, Louise

3) Issues of class in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

4) Male and female roles in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

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Bryfonski, Dedria

5) Racism in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

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Mancini, Candice

6) Racism in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Johnson, Claudia D.

7) Suicide in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

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Lerner, Alicia Cafferty

8) Women's issues in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

9) Workers' rights in Upton Sinclair's The jungle

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Wiener, Gary

10) Civil rights in Richard Wright's Native Son

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Mancini, Candice

11) Coming of age in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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Johnson, Vernon E. (Vernon Elso), 1921-

12) Depression in J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye

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Bryfonski, Dedria

13) Genocide in Elie Wiesel's Night

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Hawker, Louise

14) Peer pressure in Robert Cormier's The chocolate war

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Bryfonski, Dedria

15) Race in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

16) Race relations in Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country

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Bryfonski, Dedria

17) Racism in the autobiography of Malcolm X

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Mancini, Candice

18) Violence in William Golding's Lord of the flies

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19) War in Joseph Heller's Catch-22

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Bryfonski, Dedria

20) The abuse of power in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four

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Provides background on the life of English novelist George Orwell and his influences, features eleven articles that explore the abuse of power in his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," and examines issues of the abuse of power in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

21) The American dream in John Steinbeck's of Mice and men

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Haugen, Hayley Mitchell, 1968-

22) Bioethics in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world

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Bryfonski, Dedria

23) Bioethics in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Wiener, Gary

24) Corruption in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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Johnson, Vernon E. (Vernon Elso), 1921-

25) The environment in Henry David Thoreau's Walden

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Wiener, Gary

26) Freedom of thought in Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee's Inherit the wind

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Mancini, Candice

27) Gender in Lorraine Hansberry's a Raisin in the Sun

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Wiener, Gary

28) Mental illness in Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest

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Bryfonski, Dedria

29) Patriarchy in Sandra Cisneros's house on Mango Street

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

30) Politics in George Orwell's Animal farm

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Bryfonski, Dedria

31) Social and psychological disorder in the works of Edgar Allan Poe

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

32) War in Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage

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Haugen, David M., 1969-

33) Censorship in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

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Mancini, Candice

34) Class conflict in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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Bryfonski, Dedria

35) The environment in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

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Wiener, Gary

36) Genocide in Anne Frank's the Diary of a young girl

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Hawker, Louise

37) Race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man

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Haugen, Hayley Mitchell, 1968-

38) Tyranny in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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Johnson, Vernon E. (Vernon Elso), 1921-

39) War in John Knowles's A separate peace

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Bryfonski, Dedria

40) War in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

41) War in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried

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Wiener, Gary

42) Women's issues in Alice Walker's The color purple

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

43) Women's issues in Kate Chopin's The awakening

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Bryfonski, Dedria

44) Women's search for independence in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

45) Colonialism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

46) Depression in Sylvia Plath's The bell jar

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Bryfonski, Dedria

47) Peer-pressure and teen violence in S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders

48) Poverty in John Steinbeck's The pearl

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Hawker, Louise

49) Race in William Shakespeare's Othello

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Johnson, Vernon E. (Vernon Elso), 1921-

50) Women's issues in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale

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Nelson, David Erik

51) Women's issues in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God

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Wiener, Gary

52) Coming of age in Sue Monk Kidd's The secret life of bees

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Bryfonski, Dedria

53) Family dysfunction in William Faulkner's As I lay dying

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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

54) War in Erich Maria Remarque's All quiet on the Western front

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Berlatsky, Noah

55) Death in Ernest Hemingway's The old man and the sea

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Bryfonski, Dedria

56) Sexuality in the comedies of William Shakespeare

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Thompson, Stephen P., 1953-

57) Sexuality in William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream

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Wiener, Gary

58) Violence in Burgess' Clockwork Orange

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Bryfonski, Dedria

59) Violence in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy

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Wiener, Gary

60) War in Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms

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Haugen, David M., 1969-

61) Wildness in Jack London's The call of the wild

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Wiener, Gary