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- 251: The Work of Cormac McCarthy
- ... Wilson, Saul Bellow, and James Joyce. "A sophisticated reader on first looking into Joyce's Ulysses might well wonder about the meaning of what is going on. A reader on first looking into McCarthy's fiction might well wonder, just what is going on" (Aldridge 90). Aldridge also goes on to say that McCarthy is "fantastically gifted." Critics also state that: Aristotle and E.M. Forster would not have approved with ... theme and heart. McCarthy possesses an extremely narrow vision condition of the human and almost no vision of the subtler complexities of human feeling and thought. These deficiencies began to be evident in the early fiction but were to a degree camouflaged by the high elegance of the prose and the idiosyncratic originality of the fictional forms. In the first two books of the [Border] trilogy they have become more clearly ...
- 252: The Work of Stephen King
- ... writers. In writing horror mystery novels, Stephen King utilizes small towns, a unique writing style, and people's inherent fears to scare the pants off his readers. Fear is the basis for nearly all horror fiction, especially in Stephen King's novels. "Everybody goes to horror movies, reads horror novels-it's almost like trying to preview the end" (King 219). In all of King's horror books somebody always dies. Horror fiction "Lets you become a child again" (King 220). King can bring out the fears that are kept deep down in our souls. He knows that we have been set down in a frightening universe, full ...
- 253: The Life and Work of Chaim Potok
- ... 1975. Then he wrote The Book of Lights in 1981. In 1985 he wrote Davita's Harp. In 1990 he wrote The Gift of Asher Lev which won him The National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Which brings us to his most recent novel I Am the Clay from 1992. Chaim Potok also wrote a couple of children's books The Tree of Here and The Sky of Now in 1993 and 1995 respectively. Chaim only published one Non-Fiction book called Wanderings in 1978 about the history of the Jewish people. He wrote three plays one of them, Out of the Depths, is a two act play that premiered in 1990. The other two ...
- 254: The Hobbit 2
- ... Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien?" I had never heard of the book or the author but we went to the bookstore and picked up a copy. It turned out that it was a science fiction book and I am not the biggest science fiction fan, but I sure am glad I read it. It has becime one of my all time favorite books. The book begins with Bilbo Baggins enjoying a pipe after breakfast. Th is is one of ...
- 255: Margaret Atwood
- ... Happy ¨ 1978, Selected Poems ¨ 1978, Two-Headed Poems ¨ 1981, True Stories ¨ 1984, Interlunar ¨ 1987, Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New, 1976-1986 ¨ 1990, Selected Poems 1966-1975 ¨ 1995, Morning in the Burned House Short Fiction ¨ 1977, "Dancing Girls" ¨ 1983, "Murder in the Dark" ¨ 1983, "Bluebeard's Egg" ¨ 1991, "Wilderness Tips" ¨ 1992, "Good Bones" Novels ¨ 1969, The Edible Woman 1985, The Handmaid's Tale ¨ 1972, Surfacing 1988, Cat's Eye ¨ 1976 ... Bride ¨ 1979, Life Before Man 1996, Alias Grace ¨ 1981, Bodily Harm Children's Books ¨ 1978, Up in the Tree ¨ 1980, Anna's Pet ¨ 1990, For the Birds ¨ 1995, Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut Non-Fiction ¨ 1972, Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature ¨ 1977, Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 ¨ 1982, Second Words: Selected Critical Prose ¨ 1995, Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Edited ¨ 1982, The New Oxford ...
- 256: The Bronte Sisters, Jane Eyre
- ... because of the uninhibited violence and graphic imagery. Over time, however, people soon began to recognize the books for the great masterpieces they were. Charlotte and Emily s passion swept over the pools of Victorian fiction and roused them to storm. These disruptions have been present in literature ever since. Perhaps the most wonderful fact about the Bronte sisters is that the liberation of English fiction from the chains of conventionality was brought about by these "little provincial Puritans" (Gosse 62). In the modern world of literature, both are equally hailed as the precursors of feminist novelists for their originality in ...
- 257: The Black Cat
- ... a term designating one who either consciously or unconsciously distorts the truth , we are caused to get a one sided story in which we don t know whether what we are reading is fact of fiction (Prinsky 231). Poe s use of the first person point of view strengthens the intent of moral shock and horror writes Martha Womack( 5). By beginning the story with the phrase, For the most wild ... Ed. Robert Regan. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1967. 169-171. Hoffman, Daniel. Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. May, Charles E. Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. 78. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Black Cat. Ed. Martha Womack. n.page.online. Internet 29 July. 1998. Available http://www.poedecoder.com./Qrisse/works/blackcat.html. Prinsky, Norman. The Black Cat ...
- 258: Tortilla Flat
- ... to be experienced--therefore the reader must completely understand what happens in it. You should appropriate comparisons, contrasts, draw analogies of what is in the novel and one's own experience. While the elements of fiction are important in isolated ways, relating the parts is most important. A novel should show, "a direct, personal impression of life." The form of the novel is so free, so liable to variation, so open ... a source of moral guidance, and spiritual inspiration. 5. Literature is the probable successor of philosophy and religion (Matthew Arnold). 6. According to Aristotle and Horace - literature can foster virtue. 7. Since the creators of fiction are teachers and artists, they can corrupt morals and undermine religion (Plato). STRENGTHS of the novel: WEAKNESSES of the novel: How the novel is framed, Steinbeck's self-consciousness, Uses of names and initials Ultimate ...
- 259: Sex In Society
- ... bearing on girls' and boys' behaviour, and their aspirations. To most children the commercial message is another piece of information received from the television set. It is often difficult for them to distinguish truth from fiction, particularly when the fiction is packaged in compelling words, striking images, and catchy music." (Ontario Ministry of Education, 1975, pp. 5-7) An overwhelming amount of the visualizations that young kids see are the stereotypical images of women and ...
- 260: The Common Hemingway Protagoni
- ... To top it all off, Krebs can truly be seen as a Hemingway hero by demonstrating grace under pressure. Works Cited Burhans, Clinton S. Jr. "Hemingway and Vonnegut: Diminishing Vision in a Dying Age." Modern Fiction Studies (1975): 173-191. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol 8. Eds. Dedria Bryfonski, Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1978. 284-285. Burhans, Clinton S. Jr. "The Complex Unity of 'In Our Time'." Modern Fiction Studies. 14 (1968). 313-328. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol 30. Ed. Jean C. Stine, Daniel G. Marowski. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1984. 188-191. Fiedler, Leslie. "Men without Women." Love and Death in ...
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