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- 351: History Of Music
- ... Classicists, Romanticism began in the early 19th century and radically changed the way people looked at the world around them. Unlike Classicism, which was based on order and established guidelines for the creation of architecture, literature, painting and music, Romanticism was a more emotionally and sentimentally driven movement. This had a great influence on political doctrines and ideology. The Romantic era appreciated human diversity and considered looking at life from a ... outlook on life that embraced emotion before rationality. Romanticism was a reactionary period of history which, though its emphasis on emotions and on the expressions of feelings, provided a vast quantity of poetry, artwork and literature. The Romantics turned to art before the science to explain or express the world around them. They found that the orderly, mechanistic universe that science thrived under was too narrow-minded, systematic and dogmatic in ... classical view of drama. The perception that Classicism was destroying the natural human traits and emotions in favour of rigidity and conformity was widespread across Europe. Works of the time indicates that poetry, music and literature was also used as a form of rebellion or distaste for political institutions or social conditions during the 19th century. However, since most artists thrived on the emotional and irrational abstract that they were ...
- 352: John Keats
- English Literature Biographical Speech Keats, John (1795-1821) English poet, one of the most gifted and appealing of the 19th century and a seminal figure of the romantic movement. Keats was born in London, October 31, 1795 ... and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Both poems appeared in the Examiner, a literary periodical edited by the essayist and poet Leigh Hunt, one of the champions of the romantic movement in English literature. Hunt introduced Keats to a circle of literary men, including the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; the group's influence enabled Keats to see his first volume published, Poems by John Keats (1817). The principal poems ... complete form in 1931; a later edition appeared in 1960. Although Keats's career was short and his output small, critics agree that he has a lasting place in the history of English and world literature. Characterized by exact and closely knit construction and by force of imagination, his poetry gives transcendental value to the physical beauty of the world. His verbal music is well suited to the unique combination ...
- 353: Dante's Inferno
- ... They took Dante's possessions and sentenced him to be permanently banished from Florence, threatening the death penalty upon him if he returned. Dante spent most of his time in exile writing new pieces of literature. It is believed that around 1307 he interrupts his unfinished work, Convivio, a reflection of his love poetry philosophy of the Roman tradition, to begin The Comedy (later known as The Divine Comedy). He writes ... as a great thinker and one of the most learned writers of all time. Many scholars consider his epic poem The Divine Comedy consisting of Inferno, Paradiso, and Purgatorio, among the finest works of all literature. Critics have praised it not only as magnificent poetry, but also for its wisdom and scholarly learning. Dante was a man who lived, who saw political and artistic success, and who was in love. He ... Lord, which makes Dante's Inferno a religious and morally challenging experience. Works Cited Barbi, Michele. Life of Dante. Ed. Paul Ruggiers, Berkley-L.A.: University of California, Press, 1954. Curtius, Ernst Robert. "Dante." European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. New York: Pantheon Books, 1953 348-379. Maritain, Jacques. "The Three Epiphanies of Creative Institution." Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. New York: Pantheon Books, 1953 354- 405. Pinsky, ...
- 354: Censorship
- ... a wide range of sources, from television and other forms of media, their environment at home and school, to their personality and background. What they read does not necessarily mean that they will follow it. Literature is a valued source of knowledge for these children, and should not be held back. So rather than applying full censorship, it should be made an age-related censorship. Many complaints were issued about the ... notable effort to clean up society, but can be over used in areas where it does not apply. Our world is not perfect. We live in a world filled with violence, sex, racism, etc. Certain literature like hard-core pornography should be censored to the general public. These types of explicit sex truly have no meaning. They degrade the human race by increasing physical, mental and sexual abuse against people. Ordinary ... a result must be reduced and kept out of reach of the immature readers. We have a social system that mainly frowns upon the violence against women. There should be access to most types of literature, but in varying degrees of freedom, determined not by censorship, but by controlled access. Parents are trying to protect their children from the harsh realities of life, but are they helping, or hindering?
- 355: Mark Twain 3
- ... the reader with a panorama of American life along the Mississippi before the Civil War. Twain's skill in capturing the rhythms of that life help make the book one of the masterpieces of American literature. In 1884 Twain formed the firm Charles L. Webster and Company to publish his works and other writers' books, notably Personal Memoirs by the American general and president Ulysses S. Grant. A disastrous investment in ... an uncompleted piece that was published posthumously in 1916; and autobiographical dictations. Twain's work was inspired by the unconventional West, and the popularity of his work marked the end of the domination of American literature by New England writers. He is justly renowned as a humorist but was not always appreciated by the writers of his time as anything more than that. Successive generations of writers, however, recognized the role that Twain played in creating a truly American literature. He portrayed uniquely American subjects in a humorous and colloquial, yet poetic, language. His success in creating this plain but evocative language precipitated the end of American reverence for British and European culture and ...
- 356: Understanding Holden Caulfield
- ... 27.17: 208-217. Carpenter, Frederic I. “The Adolescent in American Fiction.” The English Journal 46.3: 313-319. Chugnov, Konstantin. “Soviet Critics on J.D. Salinger’s Novel, The Catcher in the Rye.” Soviet Literature 16:5: 182-184. Costello, Donald P. “The Language of The Catcher in the Rye.” American Speech 34.3: 1959. Edwards, Duane. “Holden Caulfield: ‘Don’t Ever Tell Anybody Anything.’” English Literary History. 44.3 ... Salinger. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986. … . J.D. Salinger, Revisited. New Haven: Yale UP, 1990. Furst, Lilian R. “Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground and Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. 5.1: 72-85. Goodman, Anne L. “Mad About Children.” New Republic 125.16: 20-21. Hassan, Ihab. “J.D. Salinger: Rare Quixotic Gesture.” Western Humanities Review 21.2: 261- 280. Hicks, Granville. “J.D ... in the Rye.” Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., 1989. Strauch, Carl F. “Kings in the Back Row: Meaning Through Structure: A Reading of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.” Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 2:4: 5-30. Wakefield, Dan. “Salinger and the Search for Love.” New World Writing 14.1: 68-85.
- 357: Adult Education In The U.s.
- ... Motivation (Entering / Task) Self-Monitoring (Responsibility) Self-Management (Control) Self-directed Learning Figure 1: Dimensions of Self - Directed Learning 3. SELF - DIRECTED LEARNING AS A PERSONAL ATTRIBUTE There has been less focus in the research literature on self-direction in learning as a personal characteristic of the learner. The assumption underlying much of this work is that learning in adulthood means becoming more self-directed and autonomous (Knowles, 1980; Chene, 1983 ... a number of different variables with being more or less self-directed in one¡¯s learning. The notion of readiness and the concept of autonomy have been studied and discussed most often in the professional literature on self-directedness as a personal attribute. The notion of readiness implies an internal state of psychological readiness to undertake self-directed learning activities. Guglielmino (1977) has provided the most widely used operational definition of ... and critical thinking. These are but a few possibilities among many worthwhile research initiatives. Another area of research that may prove valuable in understanding the cognitive and motivational dimensions of self-directed learning is the literature on self-regulated learning. Self-regulated learning has emerged over the last two decades as a result of social learning research initiatives (Zimmerman, 1989). In contrast to self-directed learning, self-regulated learning emerged ...
- 358: The Awakening
- ... Even Edna's father thinks that his daughter is her husband's property. We see this when he says "You are far too lenient, too lenient by far, Leonce. Bibliography Bibliography Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." Literature: Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically. 2nd ed. Ed. Sylvan Barnet et al. New York: Longman, 1997. 607-699. Aull Ph.D., Felice. "Kate Chopin: The Awakening." Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. 34th ed. (April 1999). Online. New York University. Internet. 10 April 1999. Available: http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html Bender, Brent. "The Teeth of Desire: The Awakening and The Descent of Man." American Literature. Sept. 1991 (459-474). Conn, Peter. The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1983), pp. 165, 167. Word Count: 1126
- 359: Beowulf
- ... a sixth century poem. The structure of Beowulf is a gratifying surprise, completely unexpected in an age that favored straightforward heroic people concerning conflicts between human beings. It is unlike any other poem in English literature or any other Germanic literature, and Tolkien’s description of Beowulf as a “heroic-elegiac poem”(Tolkien, 46-48) emphasizes its uniqueness. The final third of the poem becomes strongly elegiac. It is an account of Beowulf as an old ... accounts of the Geat-Swede conflicts. There are also three accounts of Hygelac’s last battle, Beowulf’s nostalgic reminiscence, and two anonymous speeches that contain some of the most beautiful elegiac verses in English literature. The verses all make known what the reader of the poem should know about who will take over the throne when Beowulf passes on. The entire poem is an account of Beowulf fighting three ...
- 360: Chinese Arts and Crafts
- ... small hand organ which was first used in China in the 1200's. It was an early version of the modern accordion, harmonica, concertina, and cabinet organ. Many western instruments have roots in China. Chinese literature goes back through hundreds of years. Their favorite type of literature is poetry, but all kinds of writing are part of Chinese culture. Western countries have known little about Chinese literature, because few translations have been made. Modern Chinese writing is known for its subtlety and delicacy of phrasing. According to Birch, Chinese prose has its own kind of conciseness. The harmony between man and ...
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