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- 101: Their Eyes Were Watching God R
- ... of her works, including Their Eyes Are Watching God, where Zora's fictitious Eatonville seems to be controlled by supernatural forces (Hinton, 5). Hurston used her artistic talent to incorporate her cultural anthologies into her fiction by combining many of the traditions and cultural tinges she discovered while tracing Black culture into the fictional town of Eatonville (Hemenway, 13). Hurston's most acclaimed work , Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been ... longs for the horizon. She finds that she must struggle to overcome the many obstacles society throws in her path. Hurston's frequent use of emotional metaphors is part of the power contained in her fiction. She uses nature to convey her emotions. The sun is a major image in the texts of Hurston, and the passage above illustrates her fascination with light. Ever since her mother told her to 'jump ... I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul{spunk, 18}'(Conjured into Being, 4)." This is one of many examples of Hurston's emphasis on emotional identification in her fiction. She also believed strongly in the elements of the earth and how they showed a symbol for each emotion. "The elements of sun and fire cleanse and renew her. The wind, another elemental image, ...
- 102: Neuromancer By William Gibson
- ... it created a sensation. Or perhaps it would be more precise to say that it was used to create a sensation, for Bruce Sterling and other Gibson associates declared that a new kind of science fiction had appeared which rendered merely ordinary SF obsolete. Informed by the amoral urban rage of the punk subculture and depicting the developing human-machine interface created by the widespread use of computers and computer networks ... portrayed in the film Blade Runner it claimed to be the voice of a new generation. (Interestingly, Gibson himself has said he had finished much of what was to be his body of early cyberpunk fiction before ever seeing Blade Runner.) Eventually it was seized on by hip "postmodern" academics looking to ride the wave of the latest trend. Dubbed "cyberpunk," the stuff was being talked about everywhere in SF. Of ... he gained more of a following among academics than among the sort of people it depicted. Heavy Metal comics and Max Headroom brought more of the cyberpunk vision to a young audience than did the fiction. Yet Neuromancer is historically significant. Most critics agree that it was not only the first cyberpunk novel, it was and remains the best. Gibson's rich stew of allusion to contemporary technology set a ...
- 103: Arthur Miller and "The Crucible"
- ... the symbolic sense, and bearing of a cross (crux, crusis, + ferre). Have students look up the meaning of the word; later they can examine why Miller selected it for the title of the play. - Historic Fiction: The Characteristics of Good Historic Fiction chart (see below) can be placed on an overhead and discussed with the students. After examining the chart, have students list historic fiction they have read. Characteristics of Good Historic Fiction Characters Protagonist - often a real individual in history - if not real, based on a real individual (e.g.: papers from government agencies or reports, diaries, public ...
- 104: Hans Christian Andersen
- ... with Orwell's 1984. The many different aspects of the novel, the many different angles that it takes for purposes of explanation and clarification make it difficult to categorize. Some categorize the book as science fiction, others label it thriller fiction, while others still dismiss it as feminist literature. The book has been broken into determinants, which are important to the success of the story. These include existential apologia, oral history, speculative fiction, confession, and dystopia. Existential apologia is a defense and celebration of the desperate coping mechanisms by which endangered women survive, outwit, and undermine devaluation, coercion, enslavement, torture, potential death sentences, and outright gynocide. Like ...
- 105: Edgar Allan Poe 6
- ... became one of the most influential literary writers in American history. As a child, he wrote numerous poems, many which were later published. As a young adult he focused much of his attention on short fiction. He was credited with creating the detective story and known for his psychological and often violent thrillers. He is also known for his macabre themes and for having a fascination with death. Literary students should ... brother, Henry. Unfortunately, Henry died six months later due to alcohol poisoning. After his brother's death, Edgar began to write seriously again. Hoping to earn more money, he changed from writing poetry to writing fiction. He wrote his first published story, The Dream," which encompassed much of Edgar s past and was thought to have been inspired by his brother's death (Nilsson). In this writing, the narrator dreams that ... for White, and brought Virginia and Maria back to Richmond with him (Thompson). Poe advised White on articles, proofread for the magazine, and wrote some short stories. During this time his writings centered on gothic fiction. His writings were strongly influenced by, German romantic writers who gave the English Gothicism their own twists and, disregarding probability, greatly exaggerated elements of the horrible and the supernatural (Nilsson). Poe was especially fond ...
- 106: Psychology Of Television
- ... television is the cause of violence in today s youth. Many have pondered that television disturbs traditions as well as interferes with the minds of adolecened children who can not yet comprehend the truth of fiction and reality. Thus television has become a widely talked about controversy, mainly because of the fatal incidents that have been occurring during the past couple of years. Questions are being raised and people want answers ... and why it portrays the way it does. Even though they know that their shows are representative to their viewers tastes and not that of the real world. Although this information is not acknowledged as fiction or non-fiction it is still portrayed and processed information by the viewer. One must be able to realize, How this information is different from everyday life? By mocking a family, situation, or community, distortions and biases ...
- 107: William Faulkner
- Aulkner By: Anonymous An American Writer: William Faulkner William Faulkner is viewed by many as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer ... are almost identical"(Volpe 16-17). "Faulkner is too complex a writer to explain in terms of a single idea, much of his work can be understood by recognizing that at the center of the fiction is one crucial experience: the transition of a boy to manhood"(Volpe 17). Faulkner often unified his stories by writing about the same families (Volpe 30). His novels and short stories are supposed to not ... be called his stereoscopic vision, his ability to deal with the specific and the universal simultaneously, to make the real symbolic without sacrificing reality. He is unquestionably the greatest of the American regional writers. His fiction is as Southern as bourbon whiskey (Volpe 28). Faulkner used the people of Yoknapatawpha County to play roles in several of his writings. His southern upbringing also played a major role in his work. ...
- 108: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- Biography of Arthur Clarke Arthur C. Clarke, a science fiction author, has had a very interesting life. Arthur was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England. He was the oldest of four children. His two brothers were Frederick and Michael, and his sister's ... member of the Royal Air Force.Then later he became the assistant editor of Science Abstracts, a science magazine. After quitting his job as the assistant editor, he decided to become a full-time science fiction author. Arthur has never been married, and still, to this day, is a bachelor. Clarke is a very successful writer. In fact, he is considered to be one of the most successful science fiction authors ever! He has written many books, including: Hammer of god; 2001, a space Odyssey; Prelude to Space; The Sands of Mars; Islands in the Sky; Against the Fall of Night; Childhood's End; ...
- 109: Sociopolitical Philosophy in the Works of Stoker and Yeats
- ... fear the rise of the Catholics, which threatened their land and political power. Two Irish authors of the period, Bram Stoker and William Butler Yeats, offer their views on this problem in their works of fiction. These include Stoker's Dracula and Yeats' On Baile's Strand and The Only Jealousy of Emer, and these works show the authors' differences in ideas on how to deal with this threat to civilization ... class and foreign influence as evil and harmful to modern civilization. The Irish Protestant author Sheridan Le Fanu uses vampires to represent the Catholic uprising in Ireland in his story Carmilla. Like much of gothic fiction, Carmilla is about the mixing of blood and the harm that results from it. When vampires strike, they are tainting the blood of the pure and innocent, causing them to degenerate into undead savages who ... of these civilized characters join together to defeat the demonic vampire who harks from the primitive lands of the East. Stoker creates a story that is similar to Le Fanu's Carmilla and other gothic fiction in that it uses vampires to represent the common fear of race- mixing and the uprising of the lower classes throughout Europe. While Stoker believes that the best solution to this is to suppress ...
- 110: Their Eyes Were Watching God B
- ... of her works, including Their Eyes Are Watching God, where Zora's fictitious Eatonville seems to be controlled by supernatural forces (Hinton, 5). Hurston used her artistic talent to incorporate her cultural anthologies into her fiction by combining many of the traditions and cultural tinges she discovered while tracing Black culture into the fictional town of Eatonville (Hemenway, 13). Hurston's most acclaimed work , Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been ... longs for the horizon. She finds that she must struggle to overcome the many obstacles society throws in her path. Hurston's frequent use of emotional metaphors is part of the power contained in her fiction. She uses nature to convey her emotions. The sun is a major image in the texts of Hurston, and the passage above illustrates her fascination with light. Ever since her mother told her to 'jump ... I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul{spunk, 18}'(Conjured into Being, 4)." This is one of many examples of Hurston's emphasis on emotional identification in her fiction. She also believed strongly in the elements of the earth and how they showed a symbol for each emotion. "The elements of sun and fire cleanse and renew her. The wind, another elemental image, ...
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