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- 331: William Faulkner
- ... a very close friend of Faulkner's, but also a mentor to the young writer at the beginning of his career. Stone immediately gave the potential poet encouragement, advice, and models for his study of literature (Minter 29). As Faulkner grew older he began to lose interest in his schoolwork and turned his attention to athletics, such as football and baseball, which caused his grades to start to fall. Eventually, he ... novels, two collections of short stories, and a book of poems (Volpe 12). Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! were written in this time period. These two novels rank among the greatest novels in contemporary literature. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 (Volpe 12). As Faulkner was coming to the end of his life, he spoke to the cadets at West Point. In his speech he read from his last novel called "The Reivers, ...
- 332: Violence And Pornography
- ... pornogrpahy 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 time has passed, this definition of pornography has grown to include any and all obscene literature and pictures. At the present date, the term is basically a blanket which covers all types of material such as explicit literature, photography, films, and video tapes with varying degrees of sexual content. For Catherine Itzin’s research purposes pornogrpahy has been divided into three categories: The sexually explicit and violent; the sexually explicit and nonviolent, ...
- 333: Review of Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
- ... by their children. With Franklin's overgrowing desire to read and be taught by books, he endured the profession of a printer, working side by side with his brother, John. Being able to obtain better literature, Franklin began to write poetry. His love for knowledge drawn from writings of Socrates and Xenophobe improved his argumentative skills greatly. Soon needing his freedom, Franklin left to New York in hopes of starting a ... on business. After arrangements were complete and business started ,Benjamin set up a club called Junto. His close friends were members and the club was run with truth, sincerity ,and integrity, qualities with which their literature discussions were conducted. He greatly rose from among the competition, gained friendship in the Assembly ,and opened up a stationer's shop. Franklin's first project of public nature was a subscription library. This business ... and suppression He always strived to be independent and was always strong when doing so.. This quality in him was beneficial to the country's future and freedom. This was a very enjoyable piece of literature for many reasons. It gave a thorough insight of the country's beginning and people who contributed to its beginning. It was interesting to learn how people behaved and conducted their everyday lives in ...
- 334: Catch-22 2
- ... for Madness." Saturday Review. 44.40 (October 7, 1961) Kennard, Jean E. "Joseph Heller: At War with Absurdity." MOSAIC IV/3 (University of Manitoba, 1971) Lindberg, Gary. "Playing for Real - The Confidence Man in American Literature." Oxford University Press (1982) Merrill, Robert. "The Structure and Meaning of Catch-22. Studies in American Fiction. 14.2 (1986) Seltzer, Leon F. "Milo's 'Culpable Innocence': Absurdity as Moral Insanity in 'Catch-22.'" Papers on Language and Literature. 15.3 (1979) Usborne, David. "Joseph Heller, Master of Black Satire." Independent News. (Dec 14, 1999): 2pp. Online. Internet. Feb 12 2000. Available: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Americas/heller141299.shtml Way, Brian. "Formal Experiment and Social Discontent: Joseph Heller's Catch 22." The Penguin Companion to American Literature. Ed. Malcolm Bradbury, Eric Mottram, and Jean Franco.
- 335: An Attempt At A Rhetorical Ana
- ... critic Northrop Frye held a series of radio broadcasts, in which he presents his beliefs of literatures place in the world. In the sixth of his lectures, Frye culminates his study of the relevance of literature in the world. He restates his theme, and expands from “strict critical theory into the wider and more practical aspects of a literal training” (133). He builds on his earlier talks and tries to not only conclude his earlier ideas, but also to introduce a greater understanding of the nature of literature and the imagination. Frye begins by redefining his audience, or at least who he thinks they are. He tries to dissuade the notion of speaking to his audience as the literary elite. He says he is speaking to the audience as “consumers” (134). He tries to overcome the notion that the studying of literature is not a necessary part of the process of learning to read and write. He stresses the importance of the imagination and it’s appearance in our reality. He states: The fundamental job of ...
- 336: Character Change in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House
- ... all the expectations the social world has for a person, our true selves can be revealed. Works Cited “A Doll’s House.” Drama for Students. 1985. Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll House. The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. 1999. 1564-1612. Ibsen, Henrik. “Notes for A Doll House.” The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. 1999. 1613-1614. Kashdan, Joanne. “A Doll’s House in a Community College.” Approaches to Teaching Ibsen’s A Doll House. Ed. Yvonne Shafer. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1985. 50-53. Lutterbie, John, and Barry Witham. “A Marxist Approach to A Doll House.” The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St Martin’s. 1999. 1630-1632.
- 337: Leda And The Swan
- ... eagle, and when the tender-hearted Leda had given protection to the swan, he had his way with her (346). Leda is innocent and unassuming. Her attacker disguises himself and deceptively targets her. In World Literature Criticism, John Lucas says, Yeats is writing here about the violence of entering history, and about how all, even the most innocent, are caught up in it (4110). Leda is of the utmost innocence, and ... Dennis Poupard. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1989. 397. Hathorn, Richmond Y. Greek Mythology. Lebanon: The American University of Beirut, 1977. Johnsen, William. Yeats and Postmodernism. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1991. Kuehn, Robert E. Yeats. Contemporary Literature Criticism. Ed. Dedria Bryfronski. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1979. 284. Lucas, John. Yeats. World Literature Criticism. Ed. James P. Draper. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1992. 4110. Magill, Frank N. ed. Critical Survey of Poetry. Pasedena: Salem Press, 1992. The Swan and Leda. On-line. Internet. July, 1996. Available Netscape Navigator: ...
- 338: Israfel By Poe, An Analysis
- ... the great variety of works that he wrote and the passion which drove him during his writing. It is this passion that is evident in "Israfel." The Poem itself draws heavily on Arabian and Oriental literature, subjects which fascinated Poe.(Allen 249) Supernatural elements, which are strong in all of Poe's works and a basic concept of all the Romantics, are represented here, as well as heaven itself. The poem ... taken from The Koran and reads as this: " And the angel Israfel, whose heartstrings are a lute , and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures.—Koran." Coleridge's, "Kubla Khan", in British literature , is similar to "Israfel", in that they both offer a heavenly place of the "ideal." Israfel seems to represent a muse, of some sort, to Poe. He sits in heaven strumming his lyre and the ... dislike of the Transcendentalist movement as a whole. Works Cited Allen, Harvey. Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe. Farrar & Rinehart Inc. NewYork. 1934. Poe, Edgar A. "Israfel." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. W.W. Norton & Company. New York. 1995
- 339: Charles Dickens: Biography
- ... talk about the life of a famous author, Charles Dickens. It will tell you about his early, middle, and later years of his life. It will also talk about one of his great works of literature. In conclusion, this report will show a comparison of his work to his life. EARLY LIFE Charles Dickens was born at Landport, in Portsea, on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the ... 1837 the book describes the humorous adventure and misadventures of the English Countryside. After a slow start, The Pickwick Papers as the book was usually called gained a popularity seldom matched in the history of literature. 7 Then in 1837, Catherine's sister Mary, died. Because of her death Dickens' suffered a lot of grief. This led some scholars to believe that Dickens loved Mary more than Catherine. Catherine was a ... a remarkable mental and physical energy. He recorded all his activites in thousands of letter, many of which made delightful readings. He spent much of his later life with crowded social friends from arts and literature. He also went to the theater as often as he could, cause he loved drama. Dickens also produced and acted in small theaters to give public readings of his work.10 Besides doing all ...
- 340: Writing Styles of Poe and Hoffman
- ... lived. Wolfgang Kayser makes some interesting points about Hoffman and the grotesque style of writing in general. Though many points were made, I have chosen the three that best relate to more familiar sources in literature and film as well. The fact that this critical analysis of E.T.A Hoffman mainly focuses on his mastery of composing grotesque scenes, I feel that it would be necessary to first define the ... fairy tale. “Hoffman likes to present grotesque scenes in the form of dream experiences.”(Kayser 72) This is perhaps the most significant point made by Kayser in reference to Hoffman and in other forms of literature as well. The dream sequence is perhaps the best place to display grotesque. Many writers like to include dreaming in their pieces because basically anything goes. Grotesque can easily be placed in any dream no ... quite able to understand what exactly he was getting at on page 72 when he says: The question as to whether the grotesque itself can furnish the structural basis for a more extended work of literature…whether it can appear within a larger context having a greater affinity to it than the didactic story or even satire… With this point Kayser makes reference to “The Sandman,” which I would make ...
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