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- 541: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... 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 ...
- 542: Miguel de Cervantes
- ... falls ill, and dies. Critics generally agree that Part II of Don Quixote is superior because of its compact organization (Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia). Don Quixote has had a tremendous influence on the development of prose fiction. It has been translated into all modern languages and has appeared in some 700 editions. The theme of realism verses idealism, brought forth by this novel, shaped and were major influences of other renaissance writers ...
- 543: Mark Twain
- ... death on April 21, 1910, his great literary reputation has further increased. Many writers such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner have declared his work-especially Huckleberry Finn- a major influence on 20th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi river. After the death of his father in 1847, Twain joined his brother Orion's newspaper, the Hannibal Journal. During this time he became ...
- 544: Bill Gates
- ... it is worth pursuing so you read on. These books are often the type you recommend to friends although you have only the basic sketch as to what they are about (such as any pulp fiction novel - you've read the story somewhere before but you are on holiday so it is either this or the guide book). The third type of book is a rare breed indeed. This is the ...
- 545: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... 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 ...
- 546: Robert Penn Warren
- ... penned with depression and a lack of new material. His period of dissolution did not end until his second marriage to Eleanor Clark in 1952. Warren received many honors including a Pulitzer Prize for the fiction All the King's Men, 1946: This novel illustrating a powerful Southern governor resembling the Louisiana politician Huey P. Long. . He also produced his complex World Enough and Time, based on the Kentucky hanging of ...
- 547: Bram Stoker
- ... same time writing short stories. His first literary "success" came a year later when, in 1872, The London Society published his short story "The Crystal Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come to the forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes that would become Stoker's trademark: horror mixed with romance, nightmares and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again ...
- 548: The Archaeological Sites In the Aegean
- ... get anywhere else. The archaeological in Troy, Crete, and Mainland Greece Give us all our "real information". Homer’s Illiad, the oddysey also give us information, but we can’t say they’re fact or fiction. If we didn’t excavate these sites we wouldn’t have dicipher Liner B or know much on the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations. We wouldn’t have seen their architecture on there beautiful art and ...
- 549: Television Violence Related To Children
- ... proven to be one of them. Television plays a major role in shaping how children perceive the world. When a child is watching their favorite television program, he/she has a problem differentiating reality from fiction. The child sees his/her favorite TV character involved in dangerous situations without consequences, the child then concludes that their dangerous actions will result without negative effects. For instance, when viewing The Road Runner cartoon ...
- 550: Trapped Inside the TV
- ... and make it fit our society today. There are certain shows that I watch for enjoyment, and as long as society as a whole is able to tell the difference between the facts and the fiction, I do not feel as though a TV based culture will lead to cultural destruction. TV is a form of enjoyment, this we need to remember. I agree with Postman that if chlidren are taught ...
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