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Ethan Frome
Hi, my name is Francesco Composto and I'm a student at FTHS.
I am doing a research paper which requires an interview with an
expert. Can you answer these five questions and if not direct me
to some one who can? It's greatly appreciated! Oh, I'm doing the
paper on Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
1.What symbols did you notice in the book?
2. What were they symbolic of?
3. What did you think Ethan and Mattie could have done instead of killing
themselves?
4. Do you think Ethan could symbolize Edith's life?
5. How else could the factors like objects and the setting in Ethan Frome
characterize him?
Francesco Composto
P.S. the answers dont have to be long or too in depth please respond
by tuesday! Thank you so much.
3/29/05 |
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Films and plays of Wharton's works
: 1) have any films based on EW's works been made other than House
of M., Age of Inn., Ethan Frome?
2) Have any of her short stories been made into films?
3) Have any of her short stories been made into plays that a play-reading
group could use?
I would be most grateful for any replies. Thank you! Lisa G. Tyre lisat333@aol.com 3/29/05 |
You can find the answers to the first two
questions in the Frequently Asked Questions page on
the site, as they are among the questions most often asked by site
visitors. You can also try the search
feature, which would bring up the list
of films made from her work.
3/29/05
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| Finding articles on Wharton?
QUESTION: Hi i was wondering how i can find these articles.
I see the bibliographies but is there anyway i have find and
read the actual articles such as
: Hays, Peter L. "Undine Is Us: Wharton's Attack on American Greed." Etudes
Anglaises: Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis {Paris, France}47.1 (1994 Jan-Mar):
22-31 Please let me know thank you so much.
Irina
3/12/05 |
Your best bet is to use the Interlibrary Loan
office at your university or local library; you can order the articles
from there if they're not available at your local library.
Here's some information from the FAQ page on
online sources:
The best criticism on Wharton is published in books and peer-reviewed
journals rather than online. Many peer-reviewed journals are
available online, however, through services such as ProQuest
or Project Muse. If you're a college or university student,
or if you live near a college or university, the university library
will be your best source for criticism on Wharton. Most
libraries will have several of the journals and books listed
in the Wharton bibliographies. If not, they can be ordered through
Interlibrary Loan.
Many libraries will have access to FirstSearch, which includes
the MLA Bibliography, and they will also have one or more
of the following full-text databases. You can go to your local
university library's home page and see which of these resources
are available to you. However, these resources are generally
available by subscription; they are free only on-campus or to
registered students and faculty.
Project Muse (Journals
from Johns Hopkins University Press)(muse.jhu.edu)
Ebsco
Expanded Academic Index
Ingenta/UnCover (charges
a fee of $12 and up for each article delivered)
UMI ProQuest Direct
JStor (www.jstor.org) (Back issues of journals, including American
Literature
Omni Full-Text Mega
Gale Group
Literary Index includes Dictionary of Literary Biographyand
other reference works, such as the Twayne series; here's
a list
of its resources on Edith Wharton
NetLibrary offers
two or three book-length critical studies of Edith Wharton,
including Hildegard Hoeller's Edith Wharton's Dialogue with
Realism and Sentimental Fiction, but you or your school
must be a subscriber to access them. It also includes the publicly
accessible text collection from the University of Virginia,
but that is already available for free from the links on the Works page.
If you do not have a local library or a university affiliation,
you can try findarticles.com (free)
or Questia ($20 per month).
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Women in The Age of Innocence
In the world of Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence" the acceptable
course for a young women's life was as rigid as her corsets (which
stand by themselves)" (Stuart Hutchinson)
Explore Wharton's presentation of women in the novel.
Michelle Niblock 1/15/05 |
This sounds like a paper topic. There are many ways
to discuss Wharton's presentation of women in the novel, and some
of the summaries
and secondary
sources should help you.
1/19/05 |
