Studies in major literary authors

Analyzes the work of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, discussing his diction, meter, imagery, and generic form, and including readings of Heaney's elegies, pastoral eclogues, and sonnets.

Examines four novels from Toni Morrison, "The Bluest Eye," "Tar Baby," "Jazz," and "Beloved," discussing the relationship between race, generic forms, and the dominant culture, and describing Morrison's narrative strategies and the critical claim that her novels lack resolution.