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- 521: Doris Lessing's Life and Her Writings
- ... by the town’s depravity and inequities” (Fitzgerald,185). “Her works display a broad range of interests and focus on such specific topics as racism, communism, feminism, and mysticism” (Scott- Kilvert,198). Throughout Lessing’s fiction, a major unifying element has been her characters’ need to confront many of their basic beliefs and assumptions about live in order to overcome preconditioned thinking and attain psychic and emotional wholeness” (Fitzgerald,185).
- 522: Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms
- ... with Agnes who left Henry for an Italian Army officer. It seems to me that the differences between the two men were only surface differences. They allowed Hemingway to call the novel a work of fiction. Had he written an autobiography the book would probably not have been well-received because Hemingway was not, at that time, a well known author. Although Hemingway denied critics' views that A Farewell to Arms ...
- 523: Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works
- ... away- If ‘twas a Dream- made solid - just The Heaven to confirm- Or if Myself were dreamed of Her- The power to presume- With Him remain- who unto Me- Gave- even as to All- A fiction superseding Faith- By so much-as ‘twas real- (Poetry of Emily Dickinson 1996,3) Benfey says that this poem is " elegant and has a mild eroticism that reaches the level of great art in Emily ...
- 524: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and His Life
- ... The Star was the first to introduce to him the news writing format which demands brief, to the point sentences and the smooth flowing of ideas. It seems that Hemingway adapted this style to his fiction writng. Hemingway demonstrates this talent in a short story called "A Clean Well-Lighted Place". When he was 19 Hemingway enlisted in the army. He was rejected due to a defective left eye. He then ...
- 525: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... 2) the years from 1594 to 1600, (3) the years from 1600 to 1608, (4) the period after 1608. In all periods, the plots of his plays were frequently drawn from chronicles, histories, or earlier fiction. Shakespeare's first period was one of experimentation. His early plays are characterized to a degree of superficial construction and verse. Some of the plays from the first period my be no more than retouchings ...
- 526: Lucas: King of Film
- ... and films we all know and love. He has reached out to all generations; the elder with memories in American Graffiti, and the young and young at heart with Star Wars, and the real science fiction fans with his perfected version of THX-1138. He has impacted other filmmakers and audiences alike. Traces of his greatness reach out through our world. Works Cited Champlin, Charles. George Lucas: The Creative Impulse. New ...
- 527: Willa Sibert Cather and His Works
- ... the ranch and into the village, where she attended Red Cloud High School. She attended the University of Nebraska, and graduated in 1895. As a student she worked as a journalist, copy editor, critic, and fiction writer. When she graduated, she moved back east to Pennsylvania. It was here where she worked on a Pittsburgh newspaper named The Library. She also taught English in a high school. Willa published "The Dance ...
- 528: Edgar Allen Poe: Writing Style
- ... on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 5. Wilbur, R. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 6. Pickering, James. Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories. NJ:Prentice Hall, 1995. 7. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
- 529: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... state. He wandered from one city to another, drifted back to Richmond and on to Baltimore, where he died. Poe was the originator of the American short story. There had been other short works of fiction, but Poe perfected the short story as an art form. Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, and Conan Doyle were influenced by him, particularly in their early writing, before each had found his individual style. Poe led ...
- 530: Nevil Shute
- ... in the United States, as The Mysterious Aviator in 1928 (Kunitz and Haycraft 1034). During this time he began to write under the Christian name Nevil Shute, because he feared that his reputation as a fiction writer would hinder his engineering career (Internet). Through the next many years, up until World War II, Nevil Shute published many more books. Shute then moved to Australia in 1949, to concentrate on his writings ...
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