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- 131: The Flies: Ideal of The Flies: Ideal of In literature, a single theme that recurs throughout a novel or play can lend to the overall flow and meaning of the written work. An image that seems to be prevalent in The Flies, by Jean-Paul ...
- 132: African-American Literature, M
- Many comparisons can be drawn between the novels Meridian, by Alice Walker, and Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. The protagonists of both books are African-American females searching in a confused, bewildered world. Meridian ...
- 133: ... 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 ...
- 134: T.S. Eliot
- ... In 1906, he started his Bachelors Degree at Harvard, and within three years he graduated. He then started graduate school at Harvard to earn a Masters degree in Philosophy. In 1910 Eliot studied French Literature in Paris at Sorbonne. Then, in 1911 he went to Munich. Due to the war he was unable to travel back to the States, and was detained in London, England. Eliot had always dreamed of ... underlying meaning of Blakes works (Margolis, 38). Eliot unknowingly was starting to unleash the beliefs that would lead to the end of The Criterion. Eliot began to focus more on the Christian meaning of literature. He began to see the presence of a god in even his own writings. Eliot had never truly believed in a God. Eliot was also the type of man that put all of himself in ... mental institution. Eliot was shattered by this news and asked a friend "How does one set about dying" (T.S.E.). In 1948 he was delivered happier news, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This award both stunned and overwhelmed Eliot for he had no clue of how far his writings had traveled. In Eliots acceptance speech he said " to enjoy poetry belonging to another language, is ...
- 135: Beat Poetry
- The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people sees the world. That generation is mow aging and its representative ...
- 136: Irony, Humor, And Paradox In K
- ... 1962. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1963. Hicks, Granville. "Beatnick in Lumberjack Country," in Contemorary Literary Criticism. 1 vols. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. 1974. Magill, Frank N., ed. Magill's Survey of American Literature. 3 vols. North Bellmore: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1991. Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterplots II American Fiction. 3 vols. England Cliffs. Salem Press, 1986. Magill, Frank N. Survey of Contemporary Literature. 8 vols. New Jersey: Salem Press, 1977. Irony, Humor, and Paradox in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest "My name is McMurphy, buddies, R.P. McMurphy, and I'm a gambling ... This novel, upon which Kesey's critical reputation rests, among others values physical and moral strength, courage, independence, and nature as opposed to fear, passivity, timidity, dependence, group effort committees, and mechanization (Magill, Survey of Literature 1061). Compounded of passion, vitality, and bawdy good humor, this novel has one obvious purpose. That purpose is to protest the repressiveness of society, as personified in Big Nurse, and to show how it ...
- 137: Emerson 3
- ... not a taste of plagiarism, but rather act as a testament to the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson on the thoughts and ideas of Henry David Thoreau. One recurring theme of this era of American literature was the idea of establishing independence for the United States from the historical ties to Europe. A cry went out for Americans to marvel in the wonders of their own backyard, rather than to look ... the wonders of Walking. Thoreau shares Emerson s concerns over western dominance on American culture but is more direct in his approach: We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure. He understands the preoccupation of his country with the historical east explaining that Americans: find ... have been many attempts by authors to write on the subject of nature but, for a reader, the crucial aspect of first-hand experience is missing: I do not know where to find in any literature, ancient or modern, any account which contents of that nature with which even I am acquainted. This may come from a desire, when recounting experience to others, one tends to be at a loss ...
- 138: Beat Movement
- The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people sees the world. That generation is mow aging and its representative ...
- 139: Romanticism
- ... we must define the Romantic Movement. The Romantic Movement was the revolt in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries against the artistic, political, and philosophical principles that had become associated with neoclassicism: characterized in literature, music, paintings, etc. by freedom of form, emphasis on feeling, originality, and creative imagination. Also on the artists own personality and sympathetic interests in nature, medevilism, the common man and so forth. This basically explains ... related to four of the main themes in romanticism. Specific examples of revolution, individuality, nature, and love will be included. The leading item in romanticism was passion. Almost everything, whether it be art, music, or literature, was shown with extreme passion. This could very well be the reason for calling it the Romantic Period. Love has a somewhat difficult definition, due to the fact that it is a feeling. Love had ... lead (Carlotta Grisi), as told by Gautier himself, danced the role "With perfection, lightness, boldness, and a chaste refinement and refined seductiveness, which placed her in first rank . . .she was nature and artlessness personified." In literature Madame de Stael's novel "Corinne" is about a poetic genius who suffers and eventually dies of unrequited love, a very passionate and common theme in the Romantic Era. Madame de Stael's statement ...
- 140: Cults
- ... people cope with their perceived problems with social interaction. Cult recruiters target those who perceive themselves as different from the rest of society, and give these individuals the sense of belonging that they crave. Cult literature lures potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. Cults provide a controlled family environment that appeals to potential cult members because it is a removal from the exterior society ... this cult isn't what they had expected, it is too late, because they are already too afraid to leave. Recruiters are not the only way that potential members are enticed into cults, often their literature is powerful enough. Cult novels, pamphlets and websites draw in potential cult members by appealing to their desperate need to socially fit in. Often if a piece of cult literature is written correctly it convinces the most logical mind of the most absurd reasoning, like this pamphlet by the Heavens Gate cult. The generally accepted "norms" of today's societies - world over - are designed, ...
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