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- 401: John Dryden
- ... to depend for a livelihood directly on the reading public and opening the future of profitable careers for great novelists during the next two centuries" (Frost 17). The Restoration period was a time of great literature and outstanding writers, but, with all the talent in this century, there were also many problems. The Restoration was an angry time in literary history. Writers threw harsh blows at one another, not with fists ... in thy Large bulk is writ, but sure tho'rt but a kildrekin of wit" (Sherwood 7). There is nobody of English criticism that is more alive, that brings readers more directly into contact with literature, than John Dryden. One can never predict what will arise with Dryden's criticism, but it will be far more promising than any other (Mc Henry 25). John Dryden is known as "the father of ... verse satire, translation, and literary criticism; genres that his contemporaries and later readers have defined as representative of the Restoration period. John Dryden's lasting legacy will be defined by his unequaled, excellent criticisms of literature and his outstanding poetry. He developed the model for modern English prose style and set the tone for 18th century English poetry. His memorable works helped influence much of the writings that come from ...
- 402: Managing Service Delivery
- VISION In the literature concerning leadership, vision has a variety of definitions, all of which include a mental image or picture, a future orientation, and aspects of direction or goal. Vision provides guidance to an organisation by articulating what ... 1989). ADMINISTRATORS AND VISION "All leaders have the capacity to create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and the ability to translate that vision into reality" (Bennis, 1990). Current leadership literature frequently characterises the leader as the vision holder, the keeper of the dream, or the person who has a vision of the organisation’s purpose. Bennis (1990) writes that leaders "manage the dream." This aspect ... of our political leaders from employee’s or organisations? ? What possible changes in social, economic, political, or technical areas will impact our organisation? The exploration of possible futures can be encouraged with the provision of literature concerning future trends. Another strategy that can assist participants to speculate about the future is to view and discuss videotapes that have been produced by futurists. 4. Put it in writing. The final step ...
- 403: Beowulf 9
- ... 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 ...
- 404: The Story
- ... was the conclusion he came to. As the idea came to mind he took out his literary magazine listing the best works of the last twenty years of the magazines publication. In this issue of Literature Today he was to find the most reputed names of language and composition of the time. He found an empty notebook and declared it to be his Initiation Booklet . In this small shiny red spiral ... had never worked this hard in his life, but now he had motivation, inspiration, and skill. This man was on the road to success, creation, and evolution. His work was to revolutionize all of human literature for the infinite future to come because the code was cracked, the secret discovered, perfection, for the first time in history, had been attained. Two months had passed. The pedagogues were quite satisfied with their ... homes. They waited through the six months impatiently awaiting that fabled holiday that had something a little more special this year, a present to the world, a present for peace, and most of all for literature and entertainment. The six months passed, slowly, day after day, week after week, month after month. The day came. Mann, Lester, and Povey arrived to Devine s door at noon. A certain stench emanated ...
- 405: The Many Faces Of Love In Arth
- The theme of love develops through several different levels in Arthurian Literature. Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace equate love with sexual desire, and little else. The concept becomes less one-dimensional in Hartmann von Aue’s romances. In Erec and Iwein, Hartmann’s definition of love includes ... Parz val’s struggle consists of his difficulty accepting God and knowing through God the kind of love that will offer contentment unmatched by any woman. For proof of human love’s frailty in this literature, consider the number times knights fight gallantly to prove and justify their worthiness to the female figures in the stories. Part of the reason Parzival fights so gallantly is to restore his image in the ... the anxiety and frustration they experience This is not to criticize the women in the tales for being fickle and shallow because they are female. Imperfect love is not indigenous to women, even in Arthurian literature. Erec’s love for Enite is anything but stable. He mistreats her out of his own vanity and shame in Erec, all the while she lives and breathes in devotion to hi . Trevrizent helps ...
- 406: Jules Verne
- ... of these advances were discovered. His father was a lawyer and wanted young Verne to be one, too. Jules was sent to Paris to study law and while he was there, he became interested in literature. He graduated with a degree in law in 1850. Jules began to write and give private law lessons in Paris. His father voiced some concern in pursuing literature as well as law. When Jules was in his young 20s, he wrote operettas librettos for about 2 years while continuing to practice law. He was appointed as the Secretary of the Theatre Lyrique in ... the Town Council of Amiens when he was 60. He said "My sole aim is to make myself useful…." He was very active in his life. 1863 marked the beginning of a new genre in literature. "Five Weeks in a Balloon" appeared in bookstores. It became the first science-fiction book published. The publisher, Jules Hetzel, and Verne had started a friendship that was to last for life when Hetzel ...
- 407: Herman Melville
- ... grasp of human nature. Like Hawthorne, Melville could not accept the prevailing optimism of his generation. Unlike his friend, he admired Emerson, seconding the Emersonian demand that Americans reject European ties and develop their own literature. "Believe me," he wrote, "men not very much inferior to Shakespeare are this day being born on the banks of the Ohio." Yet he considered Emerson's vague talk about striving and the inherent goodness ... evil, of courage and cowardice, of faith, stubbornness, pride. In Captain Ahab, driven relentlessly to hunt down the huge white whaleMoby Dick, which had destroyed his leg, Melville created one of the great figures of literature; in the book as a whole, he produced one of the finest novels written by an American, comparable to the best in any language. As Melville's work became more profound, it lost its appeal ... that unfavorable. He kept on writing until his death in 1891 but was virtually ignored. Only in the 1920s did the critics rediscover him and give him his merited place in the history of American literature. His "Billy Budd, Foretopman," now considered one of his best stories, was not published until 1924.
- 408: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... 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. Charles Dickens was born at Landport, in Portsea, on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay ... 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. 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 good ... 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. Besides doing all this ...
- 409: A Violent Illumination of Salvation
- ... of God's grace does not come easily to these people. The truthful illumination of their soul may cost their own life or that of an innocent victim. As pointed out in Masterpieces of American Literature, "God's mercy is not a soothing balm[,] but a burning flame that purifies the sinner" (498). Works Cited Bain, Carl. E., Beaty, Jerome & Hunter, J.P. The Norton Introduction to Literature. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995. "Grace." The New Encylopedia Britannica: Micropaedia. 1990. McFarland, Dorothy, Tuck. Flannery O'Connor. New York: Fredrick Ungar, 1976. O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. San diego: Harcourt, 1976. O'Connor, Flannery. Habit of Being. Ed: Sally Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979. "O'Connor." Masterpieces of American Literature. Ed. Frank N. Magil. New Jersey: Saturn, 1993. Walters, Dorothy. Flannery O'Connor. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1993.
- 410: Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
- Comparing "The Adventures of Huck Finn" and "The Catcher in the Rye" The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher ... flee, and finally a return. There are more parts they do not necessarily fall into the same order, examples of these are symbolic death and motifs. The Cosmogonic Cycle is an interesting way to interpret literature because is Universal or correlates with any time period and any situation. The Call to Adventure is the first of the Cosmogonic Cycle. It is the actual "call to adventure" that one receives to begin the cycle. There are many ways that this is found in literature including going by desire, by chance, by abduction, and by being lured by an outside force. In The Adventures of Huck Finn, Huck is forced with the dilemma of whether to stay with his ...
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