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- 51: Hector A Fiction Tale
- Hector Hector thrust his obsidian battle sword into a repulsive barbarian from the north running clean through the beast. Upon removing his sword the beast fell and hector continued to hack his way through the recklessly charging gnomes ...
- 52: Edgar Allen Poe
- By: Anonymous Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to American literature have become increasingly more prominent as the years have passed. As short fiction has become a more accepted genre in literary circles, Poe's theories are studied with more passion. Although he lived a rather melancholy existence, Poe did experience moments of joy, and desired to capture beauty through poetical form. Indeed, what he left behind for the literary world was his gifted genius, revealed through his poetry, fiction, and criticism. The darkness that seemed to surround Poe's life began as an infant. Poe was born January 19,1809 in Boston Massachusetts, the second son of David and Eliza Poe. Soon afterward, David ... the inspiration to write of death and love and reunion. He died on October 7, 1849 (Hart 521-2). Throughout his short-lived life, Edgar Allan Poe compiled a collection of literature, offering poetry, short fiction and literary criticism. In fact, perhaps even more than his poetry and short fiction, Poe's criticism is what has endured, and has recently come into its own. In his Brassfield 3 day, Poe ...
- 53: Stereotypes In Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
- ... thought now, though if you look carefully you may find it for yourselves in the course of what I am going to say. (Page 5)” Stereotypes are often placed on certain types of literature. Non-fiction has, in many cases, been given a very dry and straightforward voice, while fiction takes up the opposite; it is allowed to be metaphoric and abstract. With the stereotypical view in mind, a reader would not expect the above excerpt to come from a piece of non-fiction literature. The classification of “non-fiction” guarantees that the personas depicted in the tale will be real people; Woolf’s non-fiction tale reads like a story - a personal anecdote shared with the reader ...
- 54: Creative Writing - Fiction - T
- I remember a place was crowded when the dance-floor was full. I remember hunger was when it was dinner-time and I hadn't eaten since lunch. I remember when pollution was a brown cloud coming out ...
- 55: ... immediately, the story becoming the basis for a successful movie starring Gregory Peck in the role of the small-town lawyer Atticus Finch. In 1961 Lee's success was crowned with a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, making her the first woman to win the award since 1942. As a result of the success of her first novel, Harper Lee became something of a celebrity. She was the subject of articles in ...
- 56: ... after George Washington was a famous writer who very possibly invented the short story. Irving created such characters as Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle. James Fenimore Cooper possibly the first American author that used fiction.
- 57: William Gibson and The Internet
- ... small groups of communities, but now that it is getting much easier to access the web these groups are growing. The word Cyberpunk is nothing new in the world of the "net" and to science fiction readers , and it is this term which names most of the online communities . Within the Cyberpunk cultures there are sub cultures such as hackers, phreaks ,ravers etc.. all have a connection with new technologies. The term Cyberpunk was originated in Science Fiction Literature, writers such as William Gibson tell stories of future worlds, cultures and the Internet. it is William Gibson and the cyberpunks who have carried out some of the most important mappings of our present ... there, the performers involved in the high-tech-oriented radical art movement generally known as "Industrial" " [ R.U Sirius (Mondo 2000) 64 ] In the mid-'80s Cyberpunk emerged as a new way of doing science fiction in both literature and film. The first book "Neuromancer"; the most important film, "Blade Runner". "what's most important to me is that Neuromancer is about the present. its not really about an imagined ...
- 58: Nineteen Eighty Four - Fiction
- “Nineteen Eighty Four” – Fictional World In English this semester we have studied three different texts. All three texts were based on original, fictional worlds. The fictional world which stood out above the rest and really amazed me ...
- 59: Isaac Asimov
- ... Brooklyn, New York where they opened a candy store (Erlanger 9). When he was nine years of age, after school he worked in his parent's candy store. It was then that began reading science fiction magazines. He had to struggle to read these magazines because his father would not permit him to read "such junk"(Erlanger 9). " Isaac you should be reading books with more value," his father told him ... 1935, he applied to Columbia University and took on Chemistry as a major (Erlanger 18). This prompted his father to buy him a used typewriter. Although Isaac showed a great deal of interest in science fiction, he only considered it a hobby. His real goal was to become a doctor. However, he started to show more interest in his science fiction. On May twenty-ninth, 1937, Isaac sat down at the typewriter and started to work on his on science fiction short story (Wilsonweb). When this story was finished, he sent it in to his ...
- 60: Contact---fiction Story
- In 2001the work began on the biggest dam project in history of the human kind. The place chosen was the Great Canyon in Colorado. After six months of heavy digging, workers had found something strange. John, who was ...
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