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- 601: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who lived to the age of eighty-two and produced more than 130 volumes of poetry, plays, letters, and science, is acknowledged to be one of the giants of world literature. His writing ranged from fairy tales, to psychological novels, to political and historical novels, and to something completely unique and different such as Faust. Goethe was born shortly after the death of the Pope, on ... Weimar, providing for pessimists the futility of the exalted humanism engendered there in the eighteenth century and reminding the more sanguine that ideals are so called because they are unattainable." Footnote: Magill, C.P., German Literature (Great Britain, Oxford University Press, 1974) 50. It was probably in Weimar that Goethe developed his liking for politics. In any case he learned to think of it as his home. As he traveled even ...
- 602: Jane Addams 2
- ... married Anna H. Haldeman, a widow with two sons. Jane felt no deep warmth for her stepmother, but this demanding and intelligent woman did contribute to her education, especially in the areas of music and literature. Sometimes the elder Addams would take the family on excursions. A most memorable one was the sixty-five-mile trip to Madison, Wisconsin, to visit not only the state capitol building, but also its illustrious ... interests, Jane followed the wishes of her father by attending Rockford. One disappointing aspect of Rockford was that they offered certificates to its graduate's rather then conventional degrees. Religion and the study of classic literature dominated the curriculum at this educational institution. The following years for Jane Addams became the most difficult in her life. In 1881, John Addams the man she so very much loved and admired passed away ...
- 603: Odysseus: A Hero
- Odysseus: A Hero Heroism was not an invention of the Greeks. Yet, through the first hundreds years of their civilization, the Greek literature has already given birth to highly polished and complex long epics that revolved around heroes. These literature works gave many possibilities of definition of heroism. The Greeks illustrated heroism to obey the rules laid down by the gods and goddesses, and those who obey the rules would gain honor and fame. The ...
- 604: Margret Atwood
- ... time" ("Alias Grace" 1). Atwood has also written many children’s books like Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut which was also published in 1996 and when reviewed, described Atwood's jump to children's literature as "a break from serious fiction to cut loose with this deliciously silly romp" ("Princess Prunella" 1). Other than writing, Atwood has also had many Occupations with many prestige Collage’s and University’s. For ... has been a writers dream, and a reality to her she has accomplished so much in her life that she couldn’t be able to remember all the awards that she has won for her literature. Through out her life she is surrounded by and that what makes her a talented writer and what makes her a popular writer and known through out the world. In short, Atwood seems to please ...
- 605: Fate: Would Homer and Virgil Be The Same Without It?
- ... Rome's man of destiny." UNESCO Courier. September 1989: 23-27. Camps, W. A. An Introduction to "Vergil's" Aenid. Oxford England: Oxford University Press, 1969. Forman, Robert J. "AENID." Magill's Survey of World Literature. Ed. Frank M. Magill. Vol 6. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993. Milch, Robert J. THE AENEID Notes. Lincon, Nebraska: Cliff Notes, Inc., 1963. Poschl, Victor. The Art of Vergil. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. Strong, Elaine. THE ILIAD Notes. Lincon Nebraska: Cliff Notes, Inc., 1986. "The Aenid." Prentice Hall Literature World Masterpieces. Englewood, N.J., 1991.
- 606: The Yellow Wallpaper: The View from the Inside
- ... in the end the woman discovers that she is not being dominated as much as allowing herself loss of control. The discovering of where control falls in this story is very interesting when compared with literature in general. Much as the narrator comes to the realization that control over her life is ultimately her responsibility, a reader, who often times is 'controlled' by a story, must come to the realization that a work of literature only becomes a personal experience when he/she finally determines his/her interpretation or 'control' over the story. It is this realization of control or the reader's interpretation that is the final block that ...
- 607: Contemporary Thinkers: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aguinas
- ... and mental qualities of the offspring to be bred. Nothing is left to personal whim or accident from infancy on, and the process of education, both theoretical and practical, continues until the age of fifty. Literature, music, physical and military instruction, elementary and advanced mathematics, philosophy and metaphysics, and subordinate military and civilian- service assignments are the stages of the planned program of training philosopher-rulers.”(E. & E. , pg 7) This ... town in the Roman province of Numidia in North Africa. His mother was a devout Christian, but his father never embraced the Christian faith. He received a classical education that both schooled him in Latin literature and enabled him to escape from his provincial upbringing. Trained at Carthage in rhetoric , which was a requisite for a legal or political career in the Roman empire, he became a teacher of rhetoric in ...
- 608: Jean Sartre
- ... the political and literary magazine Les Temps Modernes. He was very profound in his struggle against Socialism. Later he supported Soviet positions but criticized their policies. In the 1950 s he wrote many pieces of literature on political problems. In 1964 Sartre won the Nobel Prize in literature, saying that he refuses to compromise his integrity as a writer, he refuses to accept the prize. He then becomes an outcast in society, for having turned on Existentialism and lives out his life in ...
- 609: Poe And Thoreau
- ... remains in search for truth, beauty, and understanding for a better life for mankind. His beliefs of society, government, and mankind while living under his own disapprobation led to some of his greatest works in literature. Some of these works include Walden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts and A plea for Captain John Brown. In his essay Civil Disobedience, Thoreau expresses his belief in the power and the duty of the ... it is nature that he looks to as a source for fundamental truth. The deeper the relationship with Nature, the deeper the understanding of the basic mysteries of life. However, while Thoreau’s philosophy and literature emphasized the inspiration of nature and the understanding of the basic mysteries of life, Edgar Allen Poe brought perspective to the darker side of the Romantic period. His success in the literary world led to ...
- 610: Edgar Allen Poe's "Hop Frog": The Transcendence Of Frogs and Ourang-Outangs
- ... and recognize transcendence in others. Works Cited Hall, Donald, and Stephen Spendler. Concise Encyclopedia of English and American Poets and Poetry. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1963. 1084-1092. Hart, James D. Oxford Companion to American Literature. 5TH Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. 323-336. Poe, Edgar Allen. "Hop Frog". The Bedford Introduction To Literature Ed. Michael Meyer. 3RD Ed. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 481-487.
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