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- 111: Neuromancer By William Gibson
- ... it created a sensation. Or perhaps it would be more precise to say that it was used to create a sensation, for Bruce Sterling and other Gibson associates declared that a new kind of science fiction had appeared which rendered merely ordinary SF obsolete. Informed by the amoral urban rage of the punk subculture and depicting the developing human-machine interface created by the widespread use of computers and computer networks ... portrayed in the film Blade Runner it claimed to be the voice of a new generation. (Interestingly, Gibson himself has said he had finished much of what was to be his body of early cyberpunk fiction before ever seeing Blade Runner.) Eventually it was seized on by hip "postmodern" academics looking to ride the wave of the latest trend. Dubbed "cyberpunk," the stuff was being talked about everywhere in SF. Of ... he gained more of a following among academics than among the sort of people it depicted. Heavy Metal comics and Max Headroom brought more of the cyberpunk vision to a young audience than did the fiction. Yet Neuromancer is historically significant. Most critics agree that it was not only the first cyberpunk novel, it was and remains the best. Gibson's rich stew of allusion to contemporary technology set a ...
- 112: Arthur Miller and "The Crucible"
- ... the symbolic sense, and bearing of a cross (crux, crusis, + ferre). Have students look up the meaning of the word; later they can examine why Miller selected it for the title of the play. - Historic Fiction: The Characteristics of Good Historic Fiction chart (see below) can be placed on an overhead and discussed with the students. After examining the chart, have students list historic fiction they have read. Characteristics of Good Historic Fiction Characters Protagonist - often a real individual in history - if not real, based on a real individual (e.g.: papers from government agencies or reports, diaries, public ...
- 113: Comparison Between Virginia Wo
- Their respective essays Tradition And The Individual Talent and Modern Fiction serve only to underline the tremendous difference in the views of Eliot and Woolf with regard to literary tradition and the role of the artist. Eliot sees it as being incumbent upon the artist to ... in terms of the earlier alchemists and their somewhat romantic mystical aura rather than some cold clinical experiment. This attitude again presupposes the poet in the role of a catalyst. Woolf s ideas in Modern Fiction are the antithesis of those of Eliot. She begins by suggesting, it is difficult not to take it for granted that the modern practice of the art is somehow an improvement upon the old. Perhaps ... patterns through which people in a society experience the world. Different societies, he says, have different cultures. But on the other hand there is the more common meaning of culture , simply donating the arts, including fiction. In A Room Of One s Own, it can be suggested that Woolf is concerned with both meaning of culture, as in getting culture and being cultured she connects these two meanings through the ...
- 114: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... of her works, including Their Eyes Are Watching God, where Zora's fictitious Eatonville seems to be controlled by supernatural forces (Hinton, 5). Hurston used her artistic talent to incorporate her cultural anthologies into her fiction by combining many of the traditions and cultural tinges she discovered while tracing Black culture into the fictional town of Eatonville (Hemenway, 13). Hurston's most acclaimed work , Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been ... longs for the horizon. She finds that she must struggle to overcome the many obstacles society throws in her path. Hurston's frequent use of emotional metaphors is part of the power contained in her fiction. She uses nature to convey her emotions. The sun is a major image in the texts of Hurston, and the passage above illustrates her fascination with light. Ever since her mother told her to 'jump ... I would like just a little of her sunshine to soak into my soul{spunk, 18}'(Conjured into Being, 4)." This is one of many examples of Hurston's emphasis on emotional identification in her fiction. She also believed strongly in the elements of the earth and how they showed a symbol for each emotion. "The elements of sun and fire cleanse and renew her. The wind, another elemental image, ...
- 115: Mrs Dalloway
- ... kinds of rhythmic structures as well, but in very different contexts. Indeed, Woolf consciously draws influence across diverse media in her quest to ``[throw] away the method...in use at the moment'' (Woolf, ``Character in Fiction'' 432). Robin Gail Schulze points to Woolf's use of tonal music to show how she breaks with literary tradition in her novels, but she concludes that ``Mrs. Dalloway, by Woolf's definition, remains a ... his ``not having a sense of proportion'' (96). Unfortunately for him, Septimus understands that ``the observing scientist-god, outside the system and predicting/controlling with the useful tools of lawfulness and determinism, is an archaic fiction within the new narratives of chaos'' (Stockton 49). Septimus will not submit to the Doctors' authority (``What power had Bradshaw over him?'' 147), he will not adhere to the fixed and eternal referentiality of language ... 2 (1992): 5-22. Stockton, Sharon. ``Turbulence in the Text: Narrative Complexity in Mrs. Dalloway.'' New Orleans Review 18:1 (1991): 46-55. Webb, Caroline. ``Life After Death: The Allegorical Progress of Mrs. Dalloway.'' Modern Fiction Studies 40:2 (1994): 279-298. Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1925. --.The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume Two, 1920-1924. Ed. Anne Oliver Bell. New York ...
- 116: 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 impossibility of anything being about life, really, or even about fiction, or finally about anything. Criticism has taken the very ...
- 117: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- Biography of Arthur Clarke Arthur C. Clarke, a science fiction author, has had a very interesting life. Arthur was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England. He was the oldest of four children. His two brothers were Frederick and Michael, and his sister's ... member of the Royal Air Force.Then later he became the assistant editor of Science Abstracts, a science magazine. After quitting his job as the assistant editor, he decided to become a full-time science fiction author. Arthur has never been married, and still, to this day, is a bachelor. Clarke is a very successful writer. In fact, he is considered to be one of the most successful science fiction authors ever! He has written many books, including: Hammer of god; 2001, a space Odyssey; Prelude to Space; The Sands of Mars; Islands in the Sky; Against the Fall of Night; Childhood's End; ...
- 118: William Faulkner
- Aulkner By: Anonymous An American Writer: William Faulkner William Faulkner is viewed by many as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer ... are almost identical"(Volpe 16-17). "Faulkner is too complex a writer to explain in terms of a single idea, much of his work can be understood by recognizing that at the center of the fiction is one crucial experience: the transition of a boy to manhood"(Volpe 17). Faulkner often unified his stories by writing about the same families (Volpe 30). His novels and short stories are supposed to not ... be called his stereoscopic vision, his ability to deal with the specific and the universal simultaneously, to make the real symbolic without sacrificing reality. He is unquestionably the greatest of the American regional writers. His fiction is as Southern as bourbon whiskey (Volpe 28). Faulkner used the people of Yoknapatawpha County to play roles in several of his writings. His southern upbringing also played a major role in his work. ...
- 119: The Legalization of Marijuana for All Purposes
- ... even triple within the next three years. The growth in the sales of hemp products is probably a sign of the eco- friendly times. The plant can produce as much as four times as much pulp per acre than trees and can grow with the broadest geographical range.28 It can be grown without pesticides and does not need to be irrigated like cotton does. Hemp can also be used to ... paper as 40,000 acres of the average forest.31 William Hearst's interest in preventing the industry from growing could be easily explained because he owned enormous timber acreage; land best suited for conventional pulp. The new competition created by hemp would have cost him millions and would lower the value of his land. It has even been suggested that Hearst popularized the term marijuana to create fear in the public. DuPont involvement in the criminalization of marijuana is also quite easy to explain. At around 1937 DuPont was patenting a new sulfuric acid process for producing wood-pulp paper.32 The companies own records state that wood-pulp products accounted for more than 80% of all DuPont's railway car loadings.33 Harry Anslinger would be the man that DuPont used to ...
- 120: Stephen King
- Stephen King Stephen King is a well-known and talented horror/fiction author who has published over eleven books in the last two decades. His great stories of horror and fantasy have been enjoyed by kids and adults starting from his first best-seller, Carrie. King's ... s life has not been an easy one. he was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland Maine(Bleiler, 1038). His father left when he was two and gave him only a collection of supernatural fiction stories(Bleiler, 1038). By age twelve, he was submitting short stories into different magazines such as "The Glass Floor", in 1967(Beacham, 747). After his graduation from the University of Maine with a B.A ... story about Billy Halleck, a man cursed "thinner" by a gypsy for hitting his nephew Thadius Lemke with his car. King believes that "A story must be paramount, because it defies the entire work of fiction." and "Theme, mood, and language are secondary." King has written many enjoyable books throughout the years and if he continues at the rate he is going , will be the most popular horror/fiction author ...
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