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- 421: Really In The Works Of John Grisham
- ... John Grisham 1. Early Life 2. Life as a lawyer 3. Life as a writer B. The works of John Grisham 1. A Time to Kill 2. The Firm II. The Idea of Reality in Literature A. Why reality is important to a reader B. Realistic verses Realism C. Reality in contemporary literature III. Reality in the works of John Grisham A. How actually reality was the inspiration of A Time To Kill B. How the life of John Grisham inspired The Firm Works Cited "About John Grisham ... The Firm." Online. Available http://www.privat.katedral.se/~nv96gabr/b-fir.htm "Grisham, John". Current Biography Yearbook. Volume 1993, 1993 Grisham, John. Newsweek 9 February 1998: 14. Hart, James. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. New York: Oxford Unviersity Press, 1965. Jones Jr., Malcolm. "Best Sellers: NO Escaping Grisham's Law". Newsweek 8 May 1995: 66. "The Mississippi Writers Page- John Grisham". Online. Aviailable http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/ ...
- 422: Civil Disobedience
- ... peacefully until their desires were recognised and acted upon. Martin Luther King Jr. knew how to get his ideas across, and knew what would be the most effective way of doing so. The piece of literature that influenced him most in his decision to fight the way he did was On The Duty of Civil Disobedience, by Henry Thoreau. By watching those before him, King understood that fighting violence with violence ... he believed. His goal was not to free masses of people from cruel injustices, but rather to free himself from the state which governs him. In writing his beliefs, and expressing the ideas of using literature as weaponry, he influenced men who would take his ideas and use them to help free nations and save people from unjust government ruling. The stronger the man with the ideals, the more influence he ... his contemporaries to act upon intolerance, tyranny and superstition. They did not listen to him, and he had no following like others after him would have, and that negated his influential abilities dramatically. Voltaire saw literature as a medium which should be useful and concerned with problems of the day. He attacked war and self interest, and claimed that eventually "manners are softened, the human mind becomes more enlightened, and ...
- 423: 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 Aues romances. In Erec and Iwein, Hartmanns definition of love includes ... Parz vals 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 loves 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. Erecs 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 ...
- 424: Huckleberry Finn Book Report
- ... Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. When Samuel Clemens was four years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where he spent his childhood. Clemens first approach to literature was through typesetting for a newspaper in 1851. At the time Orion, his brother, was a newspaper publisher in Hannibal. From 1857 until 1861, he served as the pilot of a riverboat on the Mississippi ... would recommend this novel because Clemens style gives a realistic view of life on the Mississippi River in the early 1840s and this novel is considered his Masterpiece. Huckleberry Finn is the classic in American literature by which all others are judged. Ernest Hemingway remarked, all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
- 425: Canterbury Tales 2
- ... story by combining physical descriptions, morals, and political and economic beliefs of the different classes into a single setting. Chaucer is unique in his ways of writing, how he ties together a great piece of literature with what was going on in the Middle Ages. It is from The Canterbury Tales that medieval society is exactly represented and allows for the reader to develop a clear knowledge of the religious and social distinctions of the Middle Ages. Works Cited Aers, David. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Vol 17. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992. Barron's Booknotes. Canterbury Tales. America Online. Fleming, Martha. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Vol 17. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992. French, Robert Dudley. A Chaucer Handbook. New York: Meredith Corporation, 1995. Hollister, Warren C. Medieval Europe: A Short History. New York: McGraw Hill, ...
- 426: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... he could- he has had all his children born there, and has made of himself a New England ancestor. He is a self-made man. More than this, and better even, in cheerful, hopeful, helpful literature he is of New England ascent. To ascend there in anything that's reasonable is difficult, for- confidentially, with the door shut- we all know that they are the brightest, ablest sons of that goodly ... these drudgeries in natural history and the other sciences or not, for while I may have gained in one way I have lost in another. Once I had a fine perception and appreciation of high literature, but in me that quality is atrophied. "That was the reason," said Mr. Twichell, "he was reading your books." Mr. Birrell has touched lightly- very lightly, but in not an uncomplimentary way- on my position ... of the House for two or three hours and talk to the members, man by man, in behalf of support, encouragement, and protection of one of the nation's most valuable assets and industries-its literature. I have arguments with me- also a barrel with liquid in it. "Give me a chance. Get me the thanks of Congress. Don't wait for others- there isn't time; furnish them to ...
- 427: Emerson
- ... a serious young boy who was liked by elders more than those of his own age. He never went out to play with the boys because he liked doing things that had to do with literature which was not really interesting to them. His early life was not a happy one. He lived in poverty, sickness, and frustration. On April 26, 1807, his brother John Clarke died. His father then died ... Harvard College in August 1817. He worked his way through college as a messenger and writer because of the financial strain on his family after his father's death. He developed his great interests in literature and philosophy during this time. Emerson studied Latin, Greek, and French, but didn't pay much attention to mathematics. He liked living in solitude and independence and said that the best thing about college was ... 1841. This book included "Self-Reliance" and "The Over-Soul." A second series of "Essays" came out on October 19, 1844. It sold well. Emerson also wrote poems and they are considered classics of American literature. "Poems" and "May-Day" were two volumes of poetry that was published in his lifetime. "The Rhodora" and "The Snowstorm," poems about nature, were included in these volumes. (Clendenning) He had not written or ...
- 428: Papyrus
- ... and the Arabic. . The task of the papyrologist is not only to decipher, transcribe and edit what is preserved, but also to reconstruct what is lost between fragments and reconstruct the whole. Most fragments of literature derive from rolls of papyrus, which could extend up to 35 feet in length. Papyrus was the most important writing material of the ancient world and perhaps ancient Egypt's most important legacy; alongside it were used other (often cheaper) materials, like wood and clay (broken pottery sherds with writing are called ostraca). On these materials were recorded everything from high literature to the myriad of Nine of ten published texts are private letters or documents of every conceivable documents and other communications of daily life. they reflect the quotidian affairs of government, commerce, and personal life in much the same way that modern records do. From the papyri, moreover, have come abundant new works of religious literature not only for Judaism and Christianity but also for traditional Greek and Roman cults, for Manicheism, and for the early history of Islam. The papyri are also our most important source for the actual ...
- 429: Geroffrey Chaucer
- ... though responsive to the beauty of stars on a frosty night, he preferred showers of April, garlands of May, and melody of birds. He is the poet of dawn and spring. 4 He throve on literature, both classic and recent. Ovid, Vergil, Livy, Boethius, Petrarch, Dante, and Jean de Meun are among the authors of whom his pages are generously reminiscent; some of them he converted into living English.5 Literature of the past was frequently captured by word of mouth, since printing was yet to be invented and books were scarce. Taking what he needed from others, he remolded and immortalized it, with narrative skill ... that enable him to grasp the terms of heterogeneous in a society, benefited his distinguished works of poetry. Chaucer himself and his fine works exhibit great influence on the English language. His contribution to great literature has definitely earned his permanent title as the Father of the English Language.
- 430: 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: ...
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