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- 781: Really In The Works Of John Grisham
- ... to objective reality. A realist in neither optimistic nor pessimistic. The works of a realist are a reflection of a writer's motive. The works of John Grisham are hypothetically realistic. Grisham's novels are fiction but could easily be nonfiction. His plots are hypothetical, but with its realistic ideas, there is no need for it to be hypothetical. Realism and reality are two different styles of writing. Most contemporary authors ...
- 782: Nathaniel Hawthorne 2
- ... former classmate and future president of the United States, Franklin Pierce. For this biography, Hawthorne was rewarded with an appointment as United States Consul at Liverpool, England. While serving as consul, Nathaniel wrote no more fiction. Hawthorne did keep journals which later served as material for Our Old Home, dealing with the English scenery, life and manners. Hawthorne remained as consul until the election of President Buchanan, after which Nathaniel resigned ...
- 783: Nadine Gordimer
- ... at times been banned in her native country. Since 1948 Gordimer has lived in Johannesburg and taught in the USA in several universities during the 1960s and '70s. She has also written books of non-fiction on South African subjects and made television documentaries. Nadine Gordimer has always aspired to live as a private individual outside the public eye. However her international fame and the many major awards which she has ...
- 784: Mark Twain 5
- ... author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death his literary stature has further increased, with such writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner declaring his works particularly Huckleberry Finn major influence on 20th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River. His writing career began shortly after the death of his father in 1847. Apprenticed first to a printer, he soon joined his brother Orion's ...
- 785: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... circumstances influence the path you take? Enduring the death of loved ones, facing critical abuse and public denunciation as an immoralist, Kate Chopin is considered among the most important women in the nineteenth-century American fiction. (Scarsella) Katherine (Chopin) O'Flaherty was born of Irish-French descendants. There is some controversy over the actual date of her birth. Kate stated her day of birth as February 8,1851. There was another ...
- 786: Jules Verne
- ... around Europe. The last novel befor Jules Verne's death was The Invasion of the Sea. Jules Verne died on March 24, 1905 and the whole world mourned. He was the founder of modern science fiction and the creator of many imaginary inventions that became reality. He inspired scientists, explorers and builders.
- 787: Jimi Hendrix
- ... explicitly and unambiguously, who he thought he was, is (Murray 147). 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be), the eleventh track on Electric Ladyland, is called by Murray: rock s premier work of science fiction; Hendrix was the music s first and funkiest cyberpunk (216). Merman marked the pinnacle of Hendrix producing skills, and Electric Ladyland was the first album that he himself produced. Merman s lyrics indicate Hendrix increasing ...
- 788: James Joyce
- ... of its Celtic civilization. The Christianity of these traditions, Ireland s subsequent conquest by the English, and the inertia that Joyce observed in the Dublin of his time are all recurring themes in Joyce s fiction. In this particular case, he is able to exploit the rich fictional possibilities afforded a Halloween story about a poor, disappointed spinster whose profile is like Ireland s battered western coastline (Masterplots, 3). Eveline is ...
- 789: Influences Of Virginia Woolf
- ... feminism was due to relationships with others throughout her life. Woolf shied away from feminist groups, yet she was intensely critical of patriarchal social and political system of values, particularly related to women, and her fiction became a vehicle of her criticisms. (Transue 2) Woolf felt her father was a tyrant and she became "the voice against male tyranny" (Bond 52). Her literature was a voice for suppressed women. She spoke ...
- 790: Hofstadter
- ... more than just the pleasure it affords. It also reflects his conviction that, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. put it, "history is a part of literature and therefore should be as much a conscious art as fiction or poetry." Though Hofstadter made use of psychological and sociological research and concepts, he never kidded himself that history was a science, or that one could "prove" a historical point. He preferred the beauty of ...
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