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- 461: Shel Silverstein
- ... as a cartoonist, but this time for a little-known magazine called Playboy. Despite this wide range of literary audiences, Silverstein’s main purpose was to entertain. Two of his major collections of works of literature are the critically acclaimed Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. They have no real historic significance; they were written to entertain. These two books contain some of Silverstein’s most accredited work. Since the books are children’s literature, not many critics have taken the time to review the works. However, Shel Silverstein Book Reviews reference to a review of Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic said, "Despite such moments of banality, and ... become one of the most important things in his life by that time and he had gotten into an area of writing that would supply him with years and years of marvelous work: children’s literature. In his poem entitled Squishy Touch, he presents another illogical situation and uses several literary devices while doing so. This poem from A Light in the Attic tells the story of a person that ...
- 462: Hamlet: Tragedy in Hamlet
- Hamlet: Tragedy in Hamlet The tradition of literature includes many genres. One of the oldest and most important of these genres is tragedy; one of the foremost Elizabethan tragedies in the canon of English literature is Hamlet by William Shakespeare and one of the earliest critics of tragedy is Aristotle. One way to measure Shakespeare's work is to appraise it using the methods of classical critics and thereby to see how if it would have retained its meaning. Hamlet is one of the most recognizable and most often quoted tragedies in the all of English literature. Aristotle, is concerned with the proper presentation of tragic plays and poetry. Aristotle defines tragedy as: "...a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself, and of some amplitude; in ...
- 463: Beowulf
- ... In epics, the main character is usually a hero. This is a person who expresses courage and superhuman strength. These people are recognized as the epitome of all people in this time. In Anglo-Saxon literature the role of a hero is to protect good. There were many great pieces of literature during Anglo-Saxon times. Perhaps one of the best was Beowolf. In this story the main character is Beowolf, a man who protects the Herot from a terrible monster, and later on in his life ... great treasures from his battles. However, Beowolf is most admired because he is a hero and protects anyone in need. That is why Beowolf represents the hero portrayed in epics, as well as Anglo-Saxon literature, very well.
- 464: Violence and Pornography
- ... term 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 anpathy has been divided into three categories: ...
- 465: Analysis Of Abe Kobos The Red
- ... likely will prove benefical. With this in mind, Abe Kobo s story The Red Cocoon seems to be a prime example of an author expressing his political viewpoints and his personal conflicts with society through literature. Given this, researching his life and political stance might help to support or negate such an assumption. The Red Cocoon begins with a man walking down a street discussing with himself the problem of not ... on a new meaning. Abe Kobo is considered to be one of the leading authors during the post-WWII era of Japanese history. Many of his works use what was then radical artistic methods of literature ( Abe Kobo ). In his early childhood, Abe was living in Manchuria which was occupied by the Japanese at the time. Being born in Japan, altough Abe felt strong ties to the chinese, he was left ... party seriously and has considered it a joke. Abe s story is full of symbolism and underlying meaning in my view. It is very interesting that he write such an intricate and abstract piece of literature and still get a message across. As in the case of many works of art, a little knowledge of the originator will very likely be of some help in detereming the meaning of the ...
- 466: Isolation And The Individual I
- ... more apparent in the genre of satire than the ridicule of the vices and immoralities of society. This focussing on the defects of society as a whole doubles as a function of this genre of literature and a framework within the plot or theme of the novel or story. The satirist emphasizes the ugly ramifications of society, but to do so the satirist needs a vehicle for the observation of society ... Joseph Heller was published in 1961 and is a strong satirical novel. The main protagonist is an Armenian named Yossarian who is an individual with the characteristics used as a trend to produce functional satiric literature. Yossarian is a character who has a strong, definitive personality; he is realistic, cynical, paranoid and skeptical. Heller has placed this character, as the main protagonist, in a war setting on a small island called ... are and to what factors of society. Works Cited Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1994New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1994. Sniderman, Stephen L. “It was All Yossarian’s Fault”. Twentieth Century Literature. Vol 19:4, pg 251-257. Oct. 1973. Strehle, Susan. “Satire Beyond the Norm”. Contemporary Lit. XXXVII. Pg 45-47. 1996 Strickland, Carol C. “Of Love and Loneliness, Society and Self in Huckleberry Finn”. ...
- 467: Oroonoko, Not An Anti-slavery
- Upon first reading Aphra Behn's work Oroonoko, one might get the impression that this is an early example of antislavery literature that became so popular during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the short biography of Behn from the Norton Anthology of British Literature, we learn that Behn's story had a great impact on those who fought against the slave- trade. Although the horrors of the slave trade are clearly brought forth, I do not feel Behn was ... be construed as both antislavery and although not necessarily pro-slavery, not against it. What is important is that although it might not have been her initial goal she set forth a particular discourse in literature that had great impact on later anti-slavery writers.
- 468: To Kill A Mockingbird 2
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Man Versus Society There Are Five Literary Conflicts In literature, Man Versus Man, Man Versus Nature, Man Versus The Supernatural, Man Versus Society, Man Versus Himself. There Is A New Literary conflict in literature, It's Man Versus Technology, Therefore, Known As the conflict on the 20'th century. A symbolic meaning of this conflict is franticness. Literature, is a type of communication. Poetry is written In lines, standers, and prose., Other wise wish The Separate Piece was written with sentences and paragraphs. To Kill A Mockingbird Is 'Man Versus Society'. It ...
- 469: Romeo And Juliet 7
- ... scientific truth, but his capacity for experience. 6 Romantic writing is generally seen as embodying novel attitudes which turned against prevailing 18th C new-classicism.7 There are different ideas involved when thinking of Romantic Literature not as escapist but as literature that tries passionately to come to terms with the modern world, as it emerges through a series of wrenching changes 8 Secondly, those changes affected man and woman, working class and middle class, and so ... grew up. Keats came from very humble origins. One of Keats's greatest poems, Ode to a Nightingale, and it marks the beginning of one of the most extraordinary productive periods in all of English literature. He died when he was only twenty-five of tuberculosis. On February 23, 1821, Keats died in Rome. The Romantic poets were certainly faced by a common set of problems, the world slipping and ...
- 470: Why Animal Farm Is A Great Pie
- Why Animal Farm Is A Great Piece Of Literature Animal Farm is a great piece of literature because it is a story unlike any other. It was written by George Orwell and was published in 1946. The story teaches us lessons of past history and lessons for the problems we face everyday ... but already it was impossible to say which was which. (Page 139) The ending tells of how the pigs had changed so much that they were practically humans. Animal Farm is a great piece of literature for many reasons. First of all the book teaches us about the Russian Revolution from the animals point of view. Second of all the book teaches us lessons about life, not everyone can be ...
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