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- 101: Invisible Man
- ... psychoanalytic criticism of authors, characters, and readers has a place in literary criticism that is as important as the place of psychoanalysis in society. This is because of the mimetic nature of much of modern literature. In fact, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan wrote, "If psycho-analysis is to be constituted as the science of the unconscious, one must set out from the notion that the unconscious is structured like a language,"(1) thus directly relating literature the art of language - and psychoanalysis. Searching the database of the Modern Language Association for articles about the use of psychoanalysis for understanding Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man yields one article by Caffilene Allen, of Georgia State University, in Literature and Psychology in 1995. Thus, further study of this subject seems warranted. As Allen points out, "Purely psychoanalytic interpretations of Invisible Man are rare, even though Ellison clearly threads the theories of at least ...
- 102: Social Topics In American Lite
- Throughout American literature writers have always written on social topics. Writers wrote about what was around them, and this was anything from war to love. Pieces of literature that confront social topics include Walt Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!", Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken". From the Civil War through the Modern Age the changing views of social topics is evident through literature. With the brake out of the Civil War came views of society's sorrow for lost boys dying in farmers' fields. Many American's believed the war would end quickly, with one decisive battle ...
- 103: Tortilla Flat
- ... tone is achieved through contradiction. [Some types of tone are: forward, solemn, formal, informal, intimate, pompous, scholarly, angry, contemptuous, humorous, satirical, melancholy, prudish, flippant, cautious, sentimental etc. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE NOVEL? 1. Literature is a mirror reflecting life. 2. Literature can interpret life for us. 3. Literature can sustain and console us. 4. Literature is a source of moral guidance, and spiritual inspiration. 5. Literature is the probable successor of philosophy and religion (Matthew Arnold). 6. According to Aristotle and Horace - ...
- 104: Society 2
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens How society affects and reflects in his writings. Often the environment and culture surrounding a writer will affect the styles and subjects of literature in any certain era (Local Color). William D. Howels, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell are such writers who were under this influence. However, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, also known as Mark Twain ... would not happened if I were superintending the rains affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors I would drown him (World Literature 3721). In the novel The Prince and the Pauper, Clemens was able to underscore some of the social follies and injustices of his own time without actually having to attack them directly in the novel ... harsh or blatantly unjust; and Edward himself learns of the unnecessary cruelty of prisons, as well as the nature of the kind of life poor people must endure as a result of their poverty (American Literature 202). However, Clemens major criticism of society, both Tudor and his own, is mistaking the outward appearances of men or their circumstances as a final gauge of their true worth. The novel suggests that ...
- 105: Invisible Man
- ... psychoanalytic criticism of authors, characters, and readers has a place in literary criticism that is as important as the place of psychoanalysis in society. This is because of the mimetic nature of much of modern literature. In fact, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan wrote, "If psycho-analysis is to be constituted as the science of the unconscious, one must set out from the notion that the unconscious is structured like a language,"(1) thus directly relating literature the art of language - and psychoanalysis. Searching the database of the Modern Language Association for articles about the use of psychoanalysis for understanding Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man yields one article by Caffilene Allen, of Georgia State University, in Literature and Psychology in 1995. Thus, further study of this subject seems warranted. As Allen points out, "Purely psychoanalytic interpretations of Invisible Man are rare, even though Ellison clearly threads the theories of at least ...
- 106: Tony Harrison's Poetry and His Relationship With His Parents
- ... father as an illiterate wreck, who had no chance of glory. The father could not keep the same social ground as the son and this was what divided them, he could understand the beauty of literature. The fathers emotions on the lose of the mother were great and life could not continue in the Harrison household without her. The mother was in a no mans land when she was alive, she was the one that kept the bond between the poet and father alive. She was wedged in the middle between ignorance and literature. Youre like book ends, the pair of you, shed say, Hog that grate, say nothing, sit, sleep, stare
Harrison and his father were dissimilar and were only able to achieve small talk, there ... idea of book ends, the same object, similar in every way apart from one, they were on opposite ends. They could have been exactly the same, however one thing parts them, books. The idea of literature, in the middle of the relationship between father and son. We chewed it slowly that last apple pie. Adding a sense of finality, the idea of the last pie, the home atmosphere has gone ...
- 107: The Scarlet Letter And The Cru
- ... not always so. The Puritan society was also known not to act out of brotherly love, but to cruelly lash out on those who were sinned, or were deemed unfit for society. Two works of literature that display both aspects of this society very accurately are The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorn, and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The Scarlet Letter displays a society that treats two people very differently who ... people of sending their spirits on her and the other girls. What starts as children dancing in the woods, leads to the accusation and execution of many innocent people for witchcraft. The two works of literature have very similar qualities including setting, conflict, and general aspects of the characters. There are also specific parallels between characters, such as Abigail and Hester, and Parris and Dimmesdale. The settings in both the Scarlet ... and The Crucible occur in 1692. The time period is very important in both pieces because it is a time of religious intolerance and a conservative attitude pervades in New England, where both works of literature take place. This Puritan setting is also very important in both works of literature. The reason behind the townspeople persecuting sinners is because of the Puritan beliefs of the time period. This is the ...
- 108: War - How British Literature H
- War has taken lives, broken homes and broken hearts. Since we did not live during the days of war, we use literature to explain to us what it was like. That s exactly what these next six authors did. Now we ll take a look at how these authors helped us to understand war. First there was ...
- 109: Inexcusable Acts In Literature
- Throughout many great works of literature there are numerous characters whose acts are either moral or immoral. In the works Euripides "Medea", Shakespeare's "Othello" and Boccaccio's Decameron, "Tenth Day, Tenth Story", the main characters all carry out actions which ...
- 110: Asian American Literature
- The need for America to value the Native Speakers of Languages other than English. The recently arrived immigrants face a language barrier which is only the part of the many difficulties they endure in US. Many of them ...
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