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- 111: Mark Twain 4
- ... of words, and by writing the way that most people think and speak. Twain writes with single-minded use of words, which is understood to be plain and simple, yet still intelligent, which enhances American literature. He writes what comes into his mind without fear. This is an example from Huckleberry Finn: ... "then comes a h-wack! bum! bum! bumble-umble-um-bum-bum-bum-bum - and the thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away" ... (Twain 45). This enriches American literature, because it is a clever way, and the only way to make the reader actually seem to hear and feel the sounds the writer is trying to convey. This is an example from Tom Sawyer ... of view. The story is written as he would speak it, so mistakes inevitably appear. However, this single- minded dialect was worked, composed, and written by Twain. It was not done haphazardly (Bloom 46). American literature would not be the same if not for Twain s ideas for ways of writing in a way that spectacularly conveys the feelings of touch, sound, and sight by the use of single-minded ...
- 112: Stephen Vincent Benet
- ... settlement of western U.S. frontier life (Magill 1: 174). Stephen Vincent Benet took all these factors into mind during his life as a twentieth century writer/poet. Keeping the times, the life, and the literature of Stephen Vincent Benet a major part of his influence and achievements, he helped push America towards a united cultural victory. Stephen Vincent Benet was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to James Walker Benet, a career ... parents planned for him to be a success in whatever he chose to do. Their open-mindedness encouraged him to explore books and ideas in a professional state., as well as to appreciate and take literature and history very seriously (Roache 102: 13). Because of this upbringing, all three Benet children became poets and authors. (Stephen Vincent Benet was the youngest of them.) Much influence over the Benets came from love ... 1920, he published Heavens and Earth as his thesis during his graduate study in England by Holt (Griffith 12). Other editorial jobs include reviewing for the New York Herald Tribune and the Saturday Review of Literature, and the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1933 (Magill 1: 71). In 1945, Benet published a collection of radio scripts called We Stand United, and Other Radio Scripts as a propagandistic war ...
- 113: T.S. Elliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and Alain Locke's "The New Negro
- ... New Negro". Elliot and Locke use different definitions of the word "tradition" and address a different group of people in their particular works. Elliot uses the word tradition to speak of the great body of literature that has been produced in and around Europe as he addresses critics and artists. Locke uses tradition to define how Negro Americans have been viewed by white Americans, and by themselves, as he writes his ... to finding out how a poet is different, but also in finding out how he is like the writers that came before him. By doing so it should be discovered that there is continuity in literature. As Elliot says "
if we approach a poet without this prejudice we shall often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead ... he wants to be an important writer that can stand the test of time, he must write "not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country" (1405-1406). Thus, when he writes he can not ignore the fact that the time that he is ...
- 114: ... particularly enjoyed books on mythology and folk tales, which included Celtic folklore"(Somerton). It is no wonder that when he did begin to write that his work was highly influenced by all three types of literature. De Lint is connected with the creation of the "Urban Fantasy" genre. However, he actually started out writing in the traditional fantasy style. It was only when his wife, Mary Ann, suggested it to him ...
- 115: The Gothic Novel
- The Gothic novel The Gothic novel which dominated English literature from its conception in 1764 with the publication of The Castle of Ortanto by Horace Walpole has been continually criticized by numerous critics for its sensationalism, melodramatic qualities, and its play on the supernatural. The ... and a forlorn character who excels at the melancholy. A fabled spectre or perhaps a bleeding Nun were images often sought after by those who fell victim to the supernatural influences of these books. Gothic literature as a movement was a disappointment to the idealistic romantic poets for the sentimental character idealized by Ann Radcliffe could not transcend into reality. Although the Gothic novel influenced many of the emerging genres, the ... maiden forced apart from a true love. The Gothic genre today has remained an elusive minor literary upheaval that has had immense influence on genres today. Literary critics though, have been slow to accept Gothic literature as a valuable genre. The first critics to examine the Gothic, approached it reverently with historical interest. They tried to rescue it, to revive the dead and obscure genre. These critics looked at the ...
- 116: African American Literature Sh
- In the poetry Shine and the Sinking of the Titanic , Shine is a hero. Shine is considered a hero because he left the sinking ship Titanic and swam to shore in order to save his life from a ...
- 117: ... accomplishments, Selvon has held a series of university appointments in the Caribbean, Great Britain, and North America. He has also received numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships (1955, 1968), Trinidad's Humming Bird Medal for Literature (1969), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick (1989). Selvon married Draupadi Persuad in 1947, with whom he has one child, and Althea Nesta Daroux in 1963, with whom he has three children ...
- 118: 1984 Vs. Brave New World
- ... may be subtly evolving and becoming far worse than Huxley or Orwell could ever have imagined. Each society destroys the freedom of the individual through various controlling methods such as the denial of language and literature, a caste system and conditioning. One way in which each society controls is by limiting the language and literature of every citizen. In 1984, a language called Newspeak is devised in order to narrow all thought into one mode. There are three categories of Newspeak vocabulary: A, B and C. The A vocabulary consists ... freedom are eliminated all together. Newspeak is designed to douse the flame of thought and idea, while encouraging collective ideas. Over time, Newspeak destroys any variation of idea from the intention of the Party s . Literature is also slowly altered so that the author s original meaning is lost to the meaning of the Newspeak language. Newspeak translations seem to consume thoughts and memories much like a sponge absorbs water. ...
- 119: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... Aran (1934), and Louisiana Story (1948). Bibliography: Flaherty, Frances H., The Odyssey of a Film-maker: Robert Flaherty's Story (1960; repr. 1972); Griffith, Richard, The World of Robert Flaherty (1953; repr. 1972). EXPRESSION expressionism -------------------------------- (literature, theater, and film) Expressionism, a term applied to avant-garde German painting in 1911, rapidly gained currency in literature, but does not describe a cohesive literary movement. In poetry and drama, expressionism represented a reaction to the sentimentality of late-19th-century romanticism. Expressionist poets, writing in Germany and Austria between 1910 and 1924 ... Essays (1968). JAY LEYDA Bibliography: Barna, Yon, Eisenstein (1974); Moussinac, Leon, Sergei Eisenstein (1970); Montagu, Ivor, With Eisenstein in Hollywood (1968); Nizhniy, Vladimir, Lessons with Eisenstein (1962); Seton, Marie, Sergei M. Eisenstein (1952). surrealism -------------------------------- (film, literature, theater) Surrealism, meaning above realism, is an antiaesthetic movement that grew out of the nihilistic DADA movement of the years during and immediately after World War I. Its range being that of human thought ...
- 120: African American Literature Sh
- In the poetry Shine and the Sinking of the Titanic, Shine is a hero. Shine is considered a hero because he left the sinking ship Titanic and swam to shore in order to save his life from a ...
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