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- 151: Ray Bradbury
- ... 1947 Bradbury married Marguerite McClure, and that same year he gathered much of his best material and published them as Dark Carnival, his first short story collection. His reputation as a leading writer of science fiction was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950 (published in England under the title The Silver Locusts), which describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, the constant ... their efforts by the gentle, telepathic Martians, the eventual colonization, and finally the effect on the Martian settlers of a massive nuclear war on Earth. As much a work of social criticism as of science fiction, The Martian Chronicles reflects some of the prevailing anxieties of America in the early atomic age of the 1950's: the fear of nuclear war, the longing for a simpler life, reactions against racism and ... Award in 1954, the Aviation-Space Writer's Association Award for best space article in an American Magazine in 1967, the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, and the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. His animated film about the history of flight, Icarus Montgolfier Wright, was nominated for an academy award, and his teleplay of The Halloween Tree won an Emmy. Ray Bradbury's writing ...
- 152: Donald Barthelme
- ... the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982. Barthelme also had the privilege of being widely regarded as one of the ablest and most versatile American stylists (Robert et al, 919). Donald Barthelme ... two-dimensional parodies of themselves, rather than fully developed individuals. To get a feel for what the way Donald Barthelme writes I read a few of his short stories. Barthelme is a writer of experimental fiction who creates funny and disturbing stories by putting different parts of stories that are seemingly unimportant to one another together (Marowski and Matuz, 34). Anatole Broyard says , Barthelme is so funny that most readers will ... of these people that Barthelme is funny. I do agree thought that he does seem to be a very serious writer. Thomas Leitch says about Barthelme: Perhaps the most striking feature of Donald Barthelme s fiction is the number of things it get along without. In Barthelme s fictive world, there appear to be no governing or shaping beliefs, no transcendent ideals or intimations, no very significant physical experience, no ...
- 153: Young Goodman Brown
- ... was gloom." Works Cited Capps, Jack L. "Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Explicator, Washington D.C., 1982 Spring, 40:3, 25. Easterly, Joan Elizabeth. "Lachrymal Imagery in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1991 Summer, 28:3, 339-43. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodmam Brown", The Story and Its Writer, 4th ed. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995, 595-604. Shear, Walter. "Cultural Fate and Social Freedom in Three American Short Stories", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1992 Fall, 29:4, 543-549. Tritt, Michael. "Young Goodman Brown and the Psychology of Projection", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1986 Winter, 23:1, 113-117.
- 154: Jane Eyre And Foreshadowing
- Jane Eyre is one of the most popular pieces of fiction ever written. At different periods since its publication it has been accused of immorality, of irreligion, of being unfeminine or too feminine, of alarming independence from convention, or too much reliance on it, of rejecting ... to be loved nil. It is in Jane Eyre's proud declaration of her rights as a human being that the novelty lay and that a new voice was heard for the first time in fiction. Believing Rochester to be on the eve of marrying Blanche Ingram, the rich and fashionable beauty, Jane decides to leave her post, and tells him so. Despite the carping of the moralists, Jane Eyre received ... noticed, the book's "upright" character, is of its essence. Rectitude was a basic Bronte quality: the importance of what people are and believe in, as opposed to their sense of self-interest. Applied to fiction, it contributed a new dimension to popular literature. All unconsciously Currer Bell, with her scrupulous regard for truth and critical self-analysis, and advanced the novel by half a century.
- 155: The Writings of Pat Conroy
- ... world of passion. He sometimes tends to stray off course. Prince of Tides is monstrously long, but a pleasure to read. It established him as a novelist (Votteler 44-45). Gail Godwin says that Conroy fiction has two obsessions: abusive fathers and the South. These two things cannot separate from one another. Godwin shares Weeks' opinion on the alikeness of his books. Godwin says Conroy is excessive in some aspects, but ... Music. The book spends 11 pages in a convent, 17 pages fighting Cossacks, and 27 enduring Nazis (Budman 1). In conclusion, Pat Conroy has no specific genre. It could be classified under auto-biographical; or fiction (Burns 5). Conroy mixes fiction and biography, with suspense and intrigue, and comes out with a book that, no matter how many flaws it has, you can not put down.
- 156: Eudora Welty: Her Life and Her Works
- ... Mississippi, on April 13, 1909. She was an observant child. She was fascinated by sounds and sights, human voices and the changing of seasons. Welty's happy childhood and serene life is reflected in her fiction. Eudora Welty's ability to observe created her talent to precisely tell situations as they would be seen. This talent brings her stories to life. The in-depth accounts that she writes of jump off of the page and into the readers' imagination. The descriptive passages in her fiction bring about vibrant images in the readers' mind. The short story "A Memory" opens up with a clear visual image. "The water shone like steel, motionless except for the feathery curl behind a distant swimmer ... state of Mississippi as the setting for her stories. By doing this, she can write in diction that she knows; as well as being able to create both black and white southern characters for her fiction. Welty's characters are authentically southern, their moods, gestures and entirely are sculpted to the finest detail. Her characters are so true to life that they seem to speak for themselves. "With their wide ...
- 157: Voices Of Women Writers Lesson
- ... and learning for herself, Hong Kingston illustrates her individual voice as heroic and fearless. In a different perspective, Kiana Davenport, defines a different type of warrior woman. In Davenport s The Lipstick Tree, she uses fiction as a tool to comprehend a young woman s search for identity. Similar to Woman Warrior, The Lipstick Tree unravels the young woman s discovery of her identity based on cultural rejections. In this story ... She climbed to the top of the bunker again, and studied the horizon, seeing herself decanted into the future, going even further than WeWak Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Kiana Davenport utilize the methods of fiction and non-fiction to represent influential relationships such as the mother and daughter. In each of these texts, the writers present their perspective and knowledge, varying by culture and context. From each writer, the expression that individuality ...
- 158: Bill Gates
- ... but it is worth pursuing so you read on. These books are often the type you recommend to friends although you have only the basic sketch as to what they are about (such as any pulp fiction novel - you've read the story somewhere before but you are on holiday so it is either this or the guide book). The third type of book is a rare breed indeed. This is the ...
- 159: J.D.Salinger
- J.D.Salinger "I Think that J.D.Salinger is the most talented fiction writer in America."(Hyman, Edgar p.444) ""Salinger is an oddity, an obsessive, who commands respect.."(Kazin, Alfred p.446) These are just a portion of endless quotes which describe Salinger's impact on typical ... might be called, with all due exaggeration, the assertive vulgarity and the responsive outsider. Both types recur with sufficient frequency to warrant the distinction, and their interplay defines much that is most central to Salingers fiction."(Ihab, hassan p296) It is not surprising that Salinger relates to the younger generations. His writing style focuses on average adolescence which most kids identify with. Although most of his writing is based on young ... language, to the fraudulence of contemporary America." (Hyman, Stanley Edgar p. 444) "When one stands back from Salingers career, it does take on a curious and disturbing pattern, He begins as a writer of formula fiction fresh out of a course in short story writing... and then gradually looses himself within the potentially brilliant concept of the glass family." (Landquist, James p.151) Salinger writing has been an inspiration to ...
- 160: Gender Marriage and the Cold War
- ... past. "Trying" is the operative word, because men, women, and minorities had been given a taste of autonomy, which they did not wish to let go of. The two authors make use of the science fiction genre, to shed light on the growing dissatisfaction of the status quo. Vonnegut gives the reader a clear look at what he believes will happen if there is no change, and Heinlein provides a perspective ... parallels the growing paranoia of the American public. The idea that a communist could look like anyone made everyone a potential threat. The fact that this growing fear is disguised in the form of science fiction, is further evidence of the point Heinlein was trying to make. Vonnegut uses a similar "insidious" threat (machines) to show how we can be threatened by something we take for granted. There is a quote ... perfect union was a faηade helped give people an idea about why honest communication is so important. Both authors served a necessary purpose. They knew that these ideas would be controversial, The use of science fiction as a venue made it much easier to spoon feed this knowledge to an ignorant public. Heinlein makes clear his vision of the coming rebellion against the establishment in closing lines of The Puppet ...
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