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- 921: Their Eyes Were Watching God R
- ... the basis for her best work. Therefore, the work that has denoted her as one of the twentieth century's most influential authors did not come until after she had graduated from college. However, the literature she composed in college was by no means inferior. She was a defiant free-spirit even during her early college career. While working on an anthropological study for her mentor, Franz Boas, she was exposed ... proportions. The image of the mother in African-American culture is on of guidance, love, and wisdom... Understanding the role of women in the African-American community starts by examining the roles... in Afro-American literature. (Bourn, 1). Bourn goes on to state that the role of the mother-daughter relationship is expressed vividly in Their Eyes... by the relationship that develops between Janie and her Grandmother. "The strong relationship between ...
- 922: Charles Dickens
- ... all, partly because Dickens was rapidly developing his craft as a novelist while doing it. This style of writing in a first novel, made his name know literally overnight, but created a new tradition of literature and was made one of the best know novel's of the world. After The Pickwick Papers were published in 1837, he put together another novel, Oliver Twist. Though his artistic talent is very much ... world wide. His popularity has never ceased, and he is as popular today, as he ever was. His compassion and intelligence enriched his novels and made him one of the great forces in 19th century literature, an influential conscience of his age.
- 923: William Shakespeare and His Life
- ... so many things. William Shakespeare is an ingrained part of the English speaking culture and his greatest impact is on the English language. It would be impossible to list all of his contributions to language, literature, and drama. No other person has ever invented so many words and phrases that are still in use today. His plays are such of the Western society that many quote him without even realizing it ... such wonderful plays that they are still enjoyed today, more than four hundred years later. He brought new things into the world and without him our country would not be developed in language, drama, and literature like we are today.
- 924: Hofstadter
- ... chiefly for their obscurity." Hofstadter's lapidary style is important for more than just the pleasure it affords. It also reflects his conviction that, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. put it, "history is a part of literature and therefore should be as much a conscious art as fiction or poetry." Though Hofstadter made use of psychological and sociological research and concepts, he never kidded himself that history was a science, or that ... credentials as a democrat? His corrective remarks were aimed, I think, not at the historical actors themselves (for he did not entirely hold it against them) but at the mythmakers, at the purveyors of the "literature of hero-worship and national self-congratulation," whom he derided in his introduction. THE literary critic Alfred Kazin recalled in his journals his close friendship with Hofstadter and Hofstadter's first wife, Felice Swados, a ...
- 925: Twelfth Night - Analysis Of Fo
- ... the entertainment of others, a jester, clown" or "one who has little or no reason or intellect" or "one who is made to appear to be a fool" (word originated from North Frisian). In english literature, the two main ways which the fool could enter imaginative literature is that "He could provide a topic, a theme for mediation, or he could turn into a stock character on the stage, a stylized comic figure". In William Shakespeare's comedy, Twelfth Night, Feste the ...
- 926: Jean Toomer
- ... clerk, and God knows what all. Neither the universities of Wisconsin or New York gave me what I wanted, so I quit them." It was in Chicago that Toomer began to broaden his interest in literature. Although evidence shows that, in addition to Dante's Inferno , Toomer was affected by Herman Melville's Moby Dick to such a degree that he actually compared himself to Ishmael by having "mentally turned failure ... of Russia or ... Ireland, has experience given him the knowledge of their existence. Cane is a book of gold...and Jean Toomer is a bright morning star of a new day of the race in literature." Thus, Cane forecast, by several years, what is now called the Harlem Renaissance and inspired an entire generation of African American writers, beginning with his contemporaries Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neal Hurston. In ...
- 927: The Identity of Thomas Pynchon
- ... living embodiment of a "dead author." Pynchon is a voice without a body, and this lends a somewhat inhuman aspect to his creations. Who is Thomas Pynchon? It is necessary to understand the source of literature to comprehend the literature itself? The postmodern response is to state the negative, but is our reading of Thomas Pynchon's work affected just as much by his absence than if he were public and open to the world ...
- 928: Reflections of Milton in is Works
- ... die"(Text 414). For this reason he thought that his life was very important to himself and to others. He often wrote directly about himself, and he used his life experiences as roots for his literature. In Paradise Lost and in a sonnet entitled "On His Blindness," Milton speaks indirectly and directly of his loss of vision. Also in Paradise Lost, he uses the political situation of his time as a ... of his life. In the latter part of his life, Milton lost his vision. This loss was very traumatic for him because he had not yet completed his mission of writing a memorable work of literature. Soon after, he continued his work with the help of his daughters. He dictated to them a sonnet he called "On His Blindness" in which he asks how God expects him to do his work ...
- 929: William Shakespeare
- ... view of human nature, Shakespeare had a vast knowledge of a variety of subjects. These subjects include music, law, Bible, stage, art, politics, history, hunting, and sports. Shakespeare had a tremendous influence on culture and literature throughout the world. He contributed greatly to the development of the English language. Many words and phrases from Shakespeare's plays and poems have become part of our speech. Shakespeare's plays and poems have ... written in history books. The world has admired and respected many great writers, but only Shakespeare has generated such enormous continuing interest. My source states explanations rather than opinions on why Shakespeare's contributions to literature are so vast. My source devoted thirty pages to William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's plays are usually divided into three major categories. These are comedy, tragedy, and history. Three plays which are in the category of ...
- 930: Books And Technology Is The Future Of Printed Books In Jeopa
- ... a very long time. Oral tradition led to writing, and then movies and television came along. The computer is taking over all aspects of entertainment. Writer Connie Lauerman shares that: Ruth Perry, a professor of literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes people are 'too quick to jettison the old.' She says that a young graduate student at another university recently called herself 'part of the last generation to learn ... Know it " The Chicago Tribune. 9 April 1996: 1. "Movable Type: Electronic Books and Online Libraries, For Free or For a Fee, are Changing the Face of Reading." Fortune. 16 November 1998: 270 + Seaman, Donna. "Literature for the Tech Age: The World of Books on Cassette and CD ROM." The Chicago Tribune. 2 February 1997: 1. Terrell, Kenneth. "E-Books Struggle to Replace Type on Paper." U.S. News and World ...
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