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- 491: Romantic Poetry
- ... 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 ...
- 492: Roland
- The Song of Roland and Ywain: A Changing Society as Viewed Through Its Literature When comparing the epic poem of The Song of Roland to the romantic literature of Ywain, the differences between the early medieval period and the high medieval period become evident. Both The Song of Roland and Ywain depicts the societies from which each story derives its fundamental characteristics. Through ... the shift from epic to romance also becomes apparent. Southern's chapter detailed the journey that the people of the period took that made this shift possible. It is these thoughts, found within the romantic literature, which forever differentiates the high Middle Ages for the earlier ages.
- 493: Watership Down 2
- Watership Down as Good Literature Watership Down, by Richard Adams, is considered good literature because of the literary techniques and because of the plot. Several literary techniques are used to pull the reader in and the plot is a well constructed to hold their attention. Watership Down's plot ... rabbit does not want them to leave. He sends his guards to fetch the does and they attack the new warren. The rabbits have to defend themselves and repel the attack. Watership Down is good literature because of the techniques used by Richard Adams. He pulls you into the story and makes it interesting with the way he tells it. Watership Down will continue as a favorite of many for ...
- 494: Lord Of The Flies
- ... unions which he planned out and started. However, this undertaking turned out to be an enormous task and Golding never did complete it. After finishing secondary school, Golding went to college. He studied reading and literature. When World War II started in 1939, Golding enlisted in the British Royal Navy. He was first involved in antisubmarine and antiaircraft operations. In 1944 he was involved in the D-Day naval support operation ... continued to write. He quit teaching so he could write full time and he wrote three more novels. These novels were The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, and Free Fall. Golding was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. This award is given to a writer not for one particular volume but for all of his work. Golding passed away in Wiltshire, England, in 1993. Golding owes the distinctive quality of his ... laws of probability; his use of tragic irony, where the destiny of an individual is patently obvious to everyone but the individual; his description of ritual processions and sacrifices: all of these elements from Greek literature contribute to the symbolic overtones of his novels. His novels are, in some respects, close to actuality. There is a realism in his rendering of physical detail, for example, his description of Pincher Martin' ...
- 495: Spain
- ... importance of religion in the history of the country and in the life of the individual. An index of the influence of Roman Catholicism is provided by the fervent mystical element in the art and literature of Spain, the impressive list of its saints, and the large number of religious congregations and orders. The Catholic marriage is the basis of the family, which in turn is the foundation of Spanish society ... far in advance of that of the rest of the continent. Numerous schools were built, many of them free and for the education of the poor. At the great Muslim universities medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and literature were cultivated; the work of Greek philosopher Aristotle was studied there long before it was well known to Christian Europe. An extensive literature developed, the caliphs themselves being poets and authors of note, and art and architecture flourished (see Islamic Art and Architecture). The Umayyads also encouraged commerce and agriculture and constructed effective irrigation systems throughout the ...
- 496: Sinclair Lewis
- ... works include Main Street, Babbit, and many others. His form of writing was satirical and his work reflected a lot of his life. Lewis was the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature. In total, Lewis wrote 22 novels and 3 plays. Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre in the heart of Minnesota. His father was a Dr. Edwin J. Lewis, country doctor and his ... Dodsworth in 1929, and Ann Vickers in 1933 both examine the corruption of the social services. In 1930, his second son, Michael, was born. In the same year he is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and is the first American to be awarded this prize. In this next decade, Lewis turned his attention towards theatre. He published his novel Work of Art in 1934. In this same year, he assisted ... Samuel Dodsworth is living retired in Italy. The characters' guest appearances never become important to the plot of the novel. Sinclair Lewis was the first American writer to be awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature. All of his works are satirical and critical. He was a spokesperson for women's rights, antiracial issues and others. He replaced the traditional view of American life with a more realistic and bitter ...
- 497: Moby Dick
- Moby Dick I. Biographical Insights A. The culture this great author was a part of was the time in American history where inspiring works of literature began to emerge. It was also a time when American writers had not completely separated its literary heritage from Europe, partly because there were successful literary genius' flourishing there. B. Herman Melville was born on ... life in order to gain a fuller understanding of life. B. The sea is a constant presence throughout the novel. As the sea is constantly in the background of the scene. C. References to previous literature are outlines on the Sperm Whale, but the literature he is referring to do not have name of the works only the names of the authors. “I know of only four published outlines of the great Sperm Whale: Colnett, Huggins, Frederick Cuvier's, ...
- 498: Chaucer's "The House of Fame": The Cultural Nature of Fame
- ... OF FAME AND ITS TEXTUAL EXPRESSION WITH REFERENCE TO ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: ORAL HEROIC POETRY, CHAUCER'S DEPICTION IN THE HOUSE OF FAME AND THE MODERN CONSTRUCTION OF THE CANON OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. YOU SHOULD FOCUS YOUR ANALYSIS ON THE INTERPLAY OF ORAL AND LITERARY TRADITIONS IN THESE CONTEXTS. Many critics have noted the complexities within Chaucer's The House of Fame, in particular, the complexities between the ... auctor` and questions the idea of 'auctoritas`. It is important to scrutinise the depiction of "fame" within Chaucer's work as it remains a crucial point in the formation of the modern canon of English literature. As noted earlier, fame has many meanings and can mean "reputation", "renown" or "rumour". Chaucer describes the more negative effects of fame, how it is granted to people with little or no merit and how ... Rumour. However, although Chaucer is himself a scholarly and academic man like Geffrey, he is still rather mocking of the academic society and the scholars who seem to be permaently fixed within the world of literature and relying entirely on book-learning, rather than experiences from the events in the outside world of reality. Chaucer within his description of The House of Fame also questions the relevance of literary works, ...
- 499: The Works of William Faulkner
- ... novel writing style is one that used literary devices, subthemes (such as women oppressed), and his main theme of the decline of the blue blood south. This writing manner was Faulkner’s greatest contribution to literature. A Rose for Emily is a gothic tale of a woman who was held back by her status in society, and is left alone with only the crumbling remains of that gentility to support her ... past and an array of myths by which it clung to its pride” (713 Probst ). This overall theme is Faulkner’s greatest innovation and the highlight of his contributions. Faulkner made his greatest donation to literature with his personalized writing style. He used narration to set the tone of his stories and alter his reader’s point of view. The oppression of women by their own families was often an underlying ... as it’s on nation and separate symbolism set the genre of the South on a new path towards a modernized world. His style set the stage for future works on the South and prepares literature for strong viewpoints and themes.
- 500: Not So Hidden Agendas: Wilfred Owen and His Early Editors
- Not So Hidden Agendas: Wilfred Owen and His Early Editors Wilfred Owen is considered by many to be perhaps the best war poet in English, if not world, literature. Yet, at the time of his death on November 4, 1918, only five of his poems had been published. Thus, due to his premature death, it is clear that Wilfred Owen was not responsible for ... Blunden, 1931; and C. Day Lewis, 1963) were responsible for establishing Owen's reputation and that reputation was reaffirmed by subsequent editions. This means that in order to understand Wilfred Owen's position in English literature, one must examine the different editions of Owen=s poems and the agendas of each editor. The first edition of his poems, co-edited by Sassoon and Sitwell, created problems immediately, as Sitwell and Sassoon ... future critics. He makes this clear in his introduction to the edition: The discussion of his experiments in assonance and dissonance...may be left to the professional critics...The importance of his contribution to the literature of the War cannot be decided by those who, like myself, both admired him as a poet and valued him as a friend. His conclusions about War are so entirely in accordance with my ...
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