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- 901: Their Eyes Were Watching God:
- ... readers discovering Their Eyes for the first time, what was most compelling was the figure of Janie Crawford - powerful, articulate, self-reliant, and radically different from any woman character they had ever before encountered in literature." Janie Crawford is defiant; she defies men, but most importantly, she defies our own preconceived notions of what the role of an African-American woman should be in modern literature.
- 902: In Cold Blood
- ... not for the subject itself, but because the case would provide enough facts for a large-scale work. Capote achieved more than just inventing a new genre journalism written with the language and structure of literature. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter talking on the phone to her best friend about her boy problems, the slit throat of Herb Clutter, the ... getting into the characters but then I came to the actual killing and I actually, I kid you not, got sick. I found the book to be a horrifying, chilling, blood curdling distasteful piece of literature. I was perturbed that anyone could just sit and read about killing innocent people. It really opened up my eyes to how real the world is. The fact that things like this happen every day ...
- 903: Patterns In Hemingway And Camu
- Once we knew that literature was about life and criticism was about fiction--and everything was simple. Now we know that fiction is about other fiction, is criticism in fact, or metaphor. And we know that criticism is about the ... us. It has taught us that language is tautological, if it is not nonsense, and to the extent that it is about anything it is about itself. Robert Scholes One of the fascinations of reading literature comes when we discover in a work patterns that have heretofore been overlooked. We are the pattern finders who get deep enjoyment from the discovery of patterns in a text. And true to the calling ...
- 904: Cantebury Tales
- Canterbury Tales tells many stories from medieval literature and provides a great variety of comic tales. Geoffrey Chaucer injects many tales of humor into the novel. Chaucer provides the reader with many light-hearted tales as a form of comic relief between many ... obscene. Fabliaux usually take place in the present and the plot describes something familiar to the reader. The genre presents a vivid image of occurrences in everyday life. Before Chaucer, fabliaux appear only in French literature. Fabliaux usually target greed, hypocrisy, and pride, and they also prey upon old age, ignorance, and husbands attempts to guard their wives chastity. The heroes and heroines, usually young and witty, appear as characters often ...
- 905: Edward James Hughes
- ... 1987. 10. Walder, Dennis. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Great Britain: The Open University Press, 1976. 11. Stuart, Robert. English Poetry 1960-1970. England: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 12. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (ed. by Rogers, Pat). New York: University Press, 1990. - p. 486-489. 13. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (ed. by Ousby, Ian). USA: Cambridge University Press, 1991. - p. 484-485. 14. Hopkins, John. Guide to literary Theory and Criticism. Baltimore: University Press, 1994. -775 p. 15. Lotman, Jurij Michailovich. Struktura Chudozhestvennogo ...
- 906: Hamlet Research Paper
- ... 1991. 2.Knight, L. C. Some Shakespeare Themes & An Approach to Hamlet. San Francisco: Stanford University Press, 1966. 3.Scott, Mark W., Ed. Shakespeare For Students. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992. 4.Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing Ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995. 1129-1230. 5.Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark England in literature, Medallion Edition. Edited by Helen McDonnell et Al. Oakland, New Jersey: Scott, Foresman & Company. 1982. 137-201
- 907: Don Quixote And Le Morte D Art
- In Malory s literature, men were knights, ladies were damsels, and magic was preponderant. By the time that Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, men got real jobs, the innocent damsel had become a myth, and magic was reduced to superstition. These works both examine the chivalric ideal: physical prowess, courtesy, truth in love and friendship, tenderness, humility, gentleness (The Legend of Arthur in British & American Literature, p. 65) and remark much on it. While they both find this ideal to be too much for a man to maintain, they express it in different ways. Malory s knights are generally chivalrous, but ...
- 908: Multiculturalism
- ... to use an example in that context. In 1980, the American school, Stanford University came up with a program - later known as the "Stanford-style multicultural curriculum" which aimed to familiarize students with traditions, philosophy, literature and history of the West. The program consisted of fifteen required books by writers such as Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Aquinas, Marx and Freud. By 1987, a group called the Rainbow Coalition argued the fact that ... Our country will become a whole created out of a thousand different pieces, held together by the policies of our people...a true mosaic! Bibliography · Akbari. Ather, H. Economics of Immigration and Racial Discrimination: A Literature Survey (1970-1989) Multiculturalism&Citizenship. University of Victoria 1989. · Banks, James A. "Multicultural Literacy and Curriculum Reform." The Education Digest, Dec 13th 1991: 10-13 · Blackman, Sheri. Canadian Framework and its Bridges: Understanding Political Legislation ...
- 909: Sherlock Holmes
- ... Sherlock Holmes, he had no idea that his creation would become on of the most read and talked about fiction characters ever. Doyle himself did not even think that the Sherlock Holmes stories were good literature, but as he found out, people were not interested in the quality of his writing but rather being entertained by the world's most famous detective. Holmes was created in March 1886 but was not ... s Christmas Annual'. The public was also introduced to Holmes' colleague and biographer, Dr Watson. The Victorian public was fascinated by sensational crime and Holmes himself was described as having an immense knowledge of sensational literature. There was a great popularity in late-Victorian London for dismembering murder victims and distributing them around the town. One particular audacious murderer travelled in horse-drawn cabs with the head of his victim on ...
- 910: Depression and Its Effects
- Depression and Its Effects Depression: This essay is concerned with the disorder of Major (unipolar) Depression. Firstly, differences between sociodemgraphic groups will be addressed. Secondly, a summary of research literature will be discussed and finally, differences in prevalence between sociodemographic groups will be approached. All of us have experienced moods of depression, sadness, or the blues in our lives. We may have these feelings in ... Sometimes the symptoms of mood disorders take on different forms in children than in adults. These gender differences may be in part due to biological causes, such as hormones and different levels of neurotransmitters. Research Literature on Causation Though its triggers often remain a mystery, some people are at higher risk than others. It may be genetics, or family socialization, but compared with those who have no depressed relatives, those with ...
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