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- 2091: Metadrama In Shakespeare
- ... metadrama can be said to openly question how narrative assumptions and conventions transform and filter reality, trying to ultimately prove that no singular truths or meanings exist. In respect to the plays of Shakespeare, critic John Drakakis supports this notion arguing that Julius Caesar may be read as a kind of metadrama: by figuring Caesar, Brutus, Cassius and others as actors, self consciously fashioning Roman politics as competing theatrical performances the ... to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality" BIBLIOGRAPHY Scholes, Robert. "Metafiction." Metafiction. Ed. Mark Currie. New York: Longman, 1995 (Shakespeare’s Tragedies - ‘Fashion It Thus, Julius Caesar and the politics of representation’ John Drakakis, MacMillan Press London 1998) (Jefferson. Ann. "Patricia Waugh, Metafiction The Theory and Practice of Self-conscious Fiction." Poetics Today. 7:3 (1986): 574-6.) Hamlet, New Swan Shakespeare Advanced Series. Ed. Bernard Lott Longman ...
- 2092: Financial Instability
- ... January/February 1996. Charles P. Kindleberger, The World in Depression (London: Penguin 1973). Paul Krugman, “International Aspects of Financial Crises” in Martin Feldstein, ed., The Risk of Economic Crisis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). John McCallum, “Managers and Unstable Financial Markets” Business Quarterly January 1, 1995. James Tobin, “A proposal for international monetary reform” Eastern Economic Journal 1978, volume 4. John Williamson, The Failure of World Monetary Reform 1971-1974) (NY:NYU Press, 1977) L.B. Yeager, International Monetary Relations: Theory, History, and Policy 1976. .
- 2093: Analysis of the Poems of William Wordsworth
- ... This idea, and many of his others, challenged the old eighteenth-cuntury idea of formal poetry and, therefore, he changed the course of modern poetry (Wordsworth, William DISCovering). Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, England, to John, a prominent aristocrat, and Anne Wordsworth, but with his mother's death in 1778, William and his family began to drift apart. William was sent to boarding school in Hawkeshead, and his sister, Dorothy, was ... It has been pointed out by biographers that Wordsworth's unhappy early life contrasts with the idealized portrait of childhood that he presents in his writings (Wordsworth, William DISCovering). Wordsworth went to college at St. John's College in Cambridge and later wrote that the highlight of those years was his walking tour of France and Switzerland taken with his friend, Robert Jones (Watson 1421). He graduated in 1791 when the ...
- 2094: An Analysis of Updike's "Player Piano"
- An Analysis of Updike's "Player Piano" Evaluate the effectiveness of diction as an adjunct to meaning in John Updike's "Player Piano". In "Player Piano", John Updike uses personification to give life to a ‘unhuman' piano. By using diction to communicate his ideas, he effectively allows the reader to explore the psyche of a "Player Piano". In the first couple lines ...
- 2095: Daniel Webster
- ... the West. In 1828, the dominant economic interests of Massachusetts having shifted from shipping to manufacturing, Webster backed the high-tariff bill of that year. Angry Southern leaders condemned the tariff, and South Carolina's John C. CALHOUN argued that his state had the right to nullify the law. Replying to South Carolina's Robert HAYNE in a Senate debate in 1830, Webster triumphantly defended the Union. His words "Liberty and ... candidates but carried only Massachusetts. For the remainder of his career he aspired vainly to the presidency. In 1841, President William Henry Harrison named Webster secretary of state. The death of Harrison (April 1841) brought John Tyler to the presidency, and in September 1841 all the Whigs but Webster resigned from the cabinet. Webster remained to settle a dispute with Great Britain involving the Maine-Canada boundary and successfully concluded the ...
- 2096: Lesbian Poetry
- ... their minds to accept others for who they are instead of criticizing what they are. Works Cited Cantarella, Eva. Pandora's Daughters: The Role and the Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1987. Cody, John. After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. Coleridge, S.T. Selected Poetry. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Dickinson, Emily. The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Eds. Thomas H ...
- 2097: The Power And The Glory
- John Nejman October 4, 1999 The Power and Glory writing assignment “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak”.(Matthew 26:41) These words of Jesus are thematic in both the novel, The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene, and the poem, “Batter my heart, three-personed God”, by John Donne. Both the whiskey priest and the speaker of the poem are involved in a battle between their sinful flesh and their spirit, which seeks the Divine. They also admit their sin and commit themselves ...
- 2098: Historical Development of Atomic Structure
- ... came the chemists and physicists of the 16th and 17th centuries who discovered various formulae of various salts and water, hence discovering the idea of a molecule. Then, in 1766 was born a man named John Dalton born in England. He is known as the father of atomic theory because he is the one who made it quantitative, meaning he discovered many masses of various elements and, in relation, discovered the ... known. His chart and theories gained acceptance by the scientific world when three elements he "predicted"—gallium, germanium, and scandium—were subsequently discovered In 1856 another important figure in atomic theory was born: Sir Joseph John Thomson. In 1906, after teaching at the University of Cambridge and Trinity University in England, he won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the conduction of electricity through gases. He discovered what ...
- 2099: A Case of Needing: Serious Revisions
- ... accused of performing the D & C that has resulted in her death. Though Lee is known to be an abortionist, he vehemently denies any involvement in the case. Lee calls upon his friend, forensic pathologist John Berry, to clear his name. John Berry careens back and forth from one Boston hospital to another, trying to figure out who actually performed Randall's abortion, and why it killed her. The investigation is complicated by the fact that Randall ...
- 2100: THE GRAPES OF WRATH
- farm subsidies: a necessary evil? Subsidies are payments, economic concessions, or privileges given by the government to favor businesses or consumers. In the 1930s, subsidies were designed to favor agriculture. John Steinbeck expressed his dislike of the farm subsidy system of the United States in his book, The Grapes of Wrath. In that book, the government gave money to farms so that they would grow and ... on the decline. Subsidies are impractical in the economic and the social aspects. Despite perceived benefits, farm subsidies are an inefficient and dysfunctional part of our economic system. Their goal, nonetheless, is noble. Writers like John Steinbeck made people aware of the plight of the small farmer, and subsidies were the only solution he government could think of. If there is some way to prevent the decline of small farms that ...
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