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- 341: The Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- ... or start it down the road to cataclysmic conflict. One such catalytic work is Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). It is considered by many, one the most influential American works of fiction ever published. Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other previous fiction title. It sold five thousand copies in its first two days, fifty thousand copies in eight weeks, three hundred thousand copies in a year and over a million copies in its first sixteen months. What ...
- 342: The Life and Times of Peter Straub
- ... as fellow writer Stephen King. Straub feels no need to produce novels at the same rate as others in his field. “Anybody who writes all day long, has a life that is largely filled with fiction, and it’s fiction – if you spend that much time with it and take great care with it – that has the feel of the real world, that has the feeling of life. It feels that it’s growing, developing ...
- 343: Censorship and the Internet
- ... instead, the CDA prohibits posting "indecent" or "patently offensive" materials in a public forum on the Internet -- including web pages, newsgroups, chat rooms, or online discussion lists."(CIEC) This law would prohibit "texts of classic fiction such as the "Catcher in the Rye", "Ulysees", and the "7 dirty words", and other materials which, although offensive to some, enjoy the full protection of the First Amendment if published in a newspaper, magazine ... Is Speech in Cyberspace?" Human Rights Vol. 23, No.2. [http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/human_rights_960420.article]. Spring 1996. Sterling, Bruce. "Short History of the Internet." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Feb1993. [gopher://gopher.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history.of.internet]. 17 Apr. 1996. http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship/human_rights_960420.article Steele http://www.hotwired.com/special/indecent/rally.html ...
- 344: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World: A Comparison of Themes
- Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World: A Comparison of Themes For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One ... man's best friend, the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the ...
- 345: The Albanian Virgin
- ... a combination of first person narrative and third person narrative. By using both narratives, Munro adds realism, some autobiographical information about her own life in the short stories, as the stories are also based on fiction as can it be found in earlier written short stories. Since many of her stories are based on the region in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being ... writers could write in such a way that makes the reader feel like they are the narrator in a way. Most of her stories have often been compared to be more near autobiography than to fiction by some critics. It is true that much of her stories in some way or another do relate to her life, being that of her childhood or that of her later years. The point of ...
- 346: The Albanian Virgin
- ... a combination of first person narrative and third person narrative. By using both narratives, Munro adds realism, some autobiographical information about her own life in the short stories, as the stories are also based on fiction as can it be found in earlier written short stories. Since many of her stories are based on the region in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being ... writers could write in such a way that makes the reader feel like they are the narrator in a way. Most of her stories have often been compared to be more near autobiography than to fiction by some critics. It is true that much of her stories in some way or another do relate to her life, being that of her childhood or that of her later years. The point of ...
- 347: Biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Kurt Vonnegut Jr., was born November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana(Dictionary of Literary Biography). Kurt is often known for his science-fiction writing. He often uses space travel and technology within his novels (World Book Encyclopedia). Vonnegut attended Cornell University from 1940 to 1942. Next, he attended the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1947. He was ... Canary in a Cat House was a series of twelve short stories that were published by other magazines. Mother Night emerged in 1962. This is one of few novels that does not involve any science-fiction or technology. Cat's Cradle was his next novel. It was published in 1963. This story involves a researcher at General Electric. This novel shows how much Vonnegut uses his real life experiences. He uses ...
- 348: The Awakening
- ... on Chopin’s writing. "Maupassant was born in Châteaude de Miromesnil, Normandy" (Encarta). He received his education at Yvetot and Rauen and there joined a literary team where he was trained as a writer of fiction by Flaubert, another well know French author (Encarta). He, like Chopin, wrote many short stories, for which he is remembered the most (Encarta). Like Chopin, Maupassant’s ideas were looked at as "immoral" and "mature ... de. "The Awakening." Moiron and Short Stories. New York: The Pearson Publishing Co., 1910. 253-59. Skaggs, Peggy. Kate Chopin. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985. Toth, Emily. Kate Chopin: A life of the Wolff, Cynthia. "The Fiction of Limits: ‘Désirée’s Baby.’" Modern Critical Views: Kate Chopin. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philidelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. 35-42
- 349: Worn Path
- ... sees old boarded up buildings, barbed - wire fences, and the worn path. Nancy K. Butterworth Phoenix s individuality, though, not preclude another, simultaneous, views of her symbolic representative view of her race.(Johnson 228) Wetly fiction occurs when Phoenix walks past cabin, silver with weather, with doors and windows boarded shut, all like old under a spell sitting there, and she says, I walking in their sleep, Nodding her head vigorously ... they never happen again. Works Cited Ruth M. Vande Kieft Eudora Welty Queens College (1962) W.Craig Turner, Lee Emling Harding Critical Essays Eudora Welty (1989) Carol Ann Johnson Eudora Welty A Study of Short Fiction (1997) The Critics Nancy K. Butterworth 225-234
- 350: The Black Cat
- ... a term designating one who either consciously or unconsciously distorts the truth", we are caused to get a one sided story in which we don’t know whether what we are reading is fact of fiction (Prinsky 231). Poe’s use of the first person point of view strengthens the intent of moral shock and horror writes Martha Womack( 5). By beginning the story with the phrase, "For the most wild ... Ed. Robert Regan. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1967. 169-171. Hoffman, Daniel. Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. May, Charles E. Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. 78. Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Black Cat." Ed. Martha Womack. n.page.online. Internet 29 July. 1998. Available http://www.poedecoder.com./Qrisse/works/blackcat.html. Prinsky, Norman. "The Black Cat ...
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