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- 231: Mark Twain and His Writings
- ... Nash Smith. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1963. Lemaster, J.R. and Wilson, James D., ed. The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. Magill, Frank N. Magill’s Survey of American Literature. Vol. 6. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1991. Robinson Research World of Knowledge. “Samuel Langhorne Clemens.” Http://www.robinsonresearch.com/LITERATURE/AUTHORS/Twain.htm. 1999. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. ---. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. ---. “Advice to Little Girls.” The Complete Humorous Sketches and ... Masterplots. Vol. 5. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1976 Lemaster, J.R. and Wilson, James D., ed. The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993. Magill, Frank N. Magill’s Survey of American Literature. Vol. 6. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1991. Rasmussen, R. Kent. Mark Twain A to Z. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1995. Robinson Research World of Knowledge. “Samuel Langhorne Clemens.” Http://www.robinsonresearch. ...
- 232: George Orwell
- ... showed the less fortunate class' point of view. Orwell was proclaimed and will be remembered as one of the best political writers of the twentieth century. Works Cited "George Orwell,"The Oxford Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Frank Kermode. 2ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. "George Orwell." The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Ed. Pat Rogers. New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1987. "Orwell." The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature. Ed. Jenny Stringer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. "George Orwell," St. Martin's Anthologies of English Literature. Ed. Neil McEwan. 5 ed.New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Wadsworth, Frank W. "Orwell, ...
- 233: German World Of Disappointment
- ... German people, especially, have had to live through. The German writer, Heinrich Boll, uses his story “Pale Anna” to illustrate the universal experience of disappointment, an experience his countrymen are very familiar with, through both literature and history. When a long-lost German soldier returns to his hometown five years after World War II has ended, he returns to a place that is familiar, but everyone he knows is gone. His ... urinals, the decay of the town, and is disappointed with the conditions that surround him. The theme of disappointment is not limited to Boll’s stories. Disappointment is a common issue in much of German literature. In The Tin Drum, disappointment runs through nearly all of the characters in some form or another. Jan Bronski is disappointed that his cousin, Agnes, marries Matzerath because he is in love with her himself ... disappointment that drove her to commit suicide the night before she was to be released from prison. One of the reasons that disappointment is such a common theme that occurs so many times in German literature is because it is a theme that pops up all over German history. After becoming “Germany” in 1871 during the war with France, the German people faced their first major disappointment in the coming ...
- 234: Life and Work of Shirley Jackson
- ... to Burlingame, California, about thirty miles away. "According to her mother, Shirley began to compose verse almost as soon as she could write it" (Friedman, 18). As a child, Shirley was interested in sports and literature. In 1930, a year before she attended Burlingame High School, Shirley began writing poetry and short stories. Jackson enrolled in the liberal arts program at the University of Rochester in 1934. But after periods of ... Spectre" was published. Although the magazine became popular, the English department didn't like the biting editorials and critical essays. But inspite of the department's constant watch over the magazine, Leonard Brown, a modern literature teacher, backed the students and the publication. Later, Jackson was always to refer to Brown as her mentor; and in 1959 she dedicated her novel "The Haunting of Hill House" to him(Oppenheimer, 45). But ... 1985. p. 4, 12, 14, 15. Kosenko, Peter. "A Marxist/Feminist Reading of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery' ." The New Orleans Review. Spring 1985. p. 225. Nebeker, Helen. " 'The Lottery': Symbolic Tour de France," American Literature: Duke University, North Carolina, 1974. p. 107. Oehlshlaeger, Fritz. "The Stoning of Mistress Hutchinson: Meaning of Context in 'The Lottery'." Essays in Literature. No. 2, Fall, 1988. p. 259, 261. Oppenheimer, Judy. Private Demons: ...
- 235: Dea Sea Scrolls Imperfection
- The Dead Sea Scrolls are a series of complete and incomplete scrolls containing biblical literature, as well as some other writings that have not been identified as parallels to any biblical books. Found in Qumran, located in the Judean Desert, these scrolls have been a controversial topic in an archeological ... to color within the lines of a picture in their coloring book. Today, with the use of modern technology and well trained professionals, it would be safe to say that simple copying of books and literature is not exactly easy, but is definitely a task that is relatively straightforward and achievable, with little or no room for mistakes. We have scanners that can reproduce images of complete documents, computers equipped with ... constraints that they might have been working in. For instance, war is imminent and a community wants to keep alive its heritage so they appoint a scribe to write down all the important books of literature and religion that applies to their way of life. Now the scribe is put under pressure to not only copy all these scrolls and books, but now he has on his head that he ...
- 236: Societies Greatest Writer
- How would the world of literature have been affected without the works of Ernest Hemingway? His work will have an everlasting effect on the people read his books. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1898. He ended his life ... A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, and many other important literacy masterpieces. Hemingway also wrote many short stories including, Three Stories & Ten Poems, In Our Time, and others. Hemingway contributed to literature his colorful style and his concern with presenting a tough, masculine image. Hemingway's writings show how his life and the events of his time period affected the outcome in For Whom the Bell Tolls ... teacher for the young man. (Contemporary... 1 ) Many of his books received awards, one such award was the Nobel Prize! Hemingway's book The Old Man and the Sea won the Nobel Peace Prize in literature for his unparalleled use of first and third person narration. "In may of his earlier works one could discover the great writer about to emerge", (Young 83) stated Thomas Walker about young Hemingway's ...
- 237: Porography
- ... pornography originates from two greek words,porne,which means harlot,and graphein,which means to write.(Webster's 286).My belief is that the combination of the two words was originally meant to describe,in literature,the sexual escapades of women deemed to be whores.As times had passed,this definition of pornography has grown to include any and all obscene literature and pictures.At the present date date,the term is basically a blanket which covers all types of material such as explicit literature,phtography,films,and video tapes with varying degrees of sexual content. According to Catherine Itzin a leading reasecher in the pornography feild pornography can be devided into three categories: The sexually explicit and violent; ...
- 238: Henry James And William Dean H
- Post-Civil War American Literature saw a transition from the prominence of romance to the development of realism. In the late 1800's, the United States was experiencing swift growth and change as a result of a changing economy, society ... success there. (Matthiessen 15) The period of James' life recognized as the final phase, the one which Matthiessen calls the "Major Phase", revolves around three novels with which James assured himself a place in American Literature. Released in 1902, The Wings of the Dove contrasts a rich young American with European fortune hunters that are ultimately shamed by the dying heroine's tragedy. A year later, "The Ambassadors, which James' called ... works explore psychological subtlies; he is renown for his use of ambiguity and dramatic characterisation. While his works lack the elements of middle-class American life, impeding acceptance by the general public. James' contribtutions to literature are still felt today, as he influenced such authors as Wharton, Joyce, Woolf and Faulkner. (Matthiessen 19) William Dean Howells, born in 1837, was the son of printer, and, because of this, his early ...
- 239: Alfred Nobel
- ... and business ventures, Immanuel Nobel was able, in 1842, to bring his family to St. Petersburg. There, his sons were given a first class education by private teachers. The training included natural sciences, languages and literature. By the age of 17, Alfred Nobel was fluent in Swedish, Russian, French, English and German. His primary interests were in English literature and poetry as well as in chemistry and physics. Alfred's father, who wanted his sons to join his enterprise as engineers, disliked Alfred's interest in poetry and found his son rather introverted. In ... inventor with the forward-looking dynamism of the industrialist. Nobel was very interested in social and peace-related issues and held what were considered radical views in his era. He had a great interest in literature and wrote his own poetry and dramatic works. The Nobel Prizes became an extension and a fulfillment of his lifetime interests. Many of the companies founded by Nobel have developed into industrial enterprises that ...
- 240: Henry James And William Dean Howells
- Post-Civil War American Literature saw a transition from the prominence of romance to the development of realism. In the late 1800's, the United States was experiencing swift growth and change as a result of a changing economy, society ... success there. (Matthiessen 15) The period of James' life recognized as the final phase, the one which Matthiessen calls the "Major Phase", revolves around three novels with which James assured himself a place in American Literature. Released in 1902, The Wings of the Dove contrasts a rich young American with European fortune hunters that are ultimately shamed by the dying heroine's tragedy. A year later, "The Ambassadors, which James' called ... works explore psychological subtlies; he is renown for his use of ambiguity and dramatic characterisation. While his works lack the elements of middle-class American life, impeding acceptance by the general public. James' contribtutions to literature are still felt today, as he influenced such authors as Wharton, Joyce, Woolf and Faulkner. (Matthiessen 19) William Dean Howells, born in 1837, was the son of printer, and, because of this, his early ...
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