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- 851: Hofstadter
- ... 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 one could "prove" a historical point. He preferred the beauty of ...
- 852: Henrik Ibsen
- ... in 1858. The next year, he wrote the historical play The Vikings at Helgeland. The Pretenders was written in 1863. Beside Bjornstjerne Bjornson s Sigurd Slembe, The Pretenders is considered the main work of historical fiction produced during this era. Henrik Ibsen married Suzannah Thoresen (1836-1914) in 1858. Soon after, he wrote the poem "On the Heights"(1859) and the play Love s Comedy (1863). The years in Christiania were ...
- 853: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... which for centuries to come will draw thousands of foreigners from all countries to Greece" (qtd. in Duchκne 75). Early in 1878, Mycenae was published, and it detailed in a blend of fact and romantic fiction Schliemann's excavations and finds. The book impacted Greek studies greatly, and opened up the new field of Mycenaean studies (Duchκne 80). But Schliemann did not stop there. He and Dorpfield moved on to Tiryns ...
- 854: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... never have suspected how fast the world would progress from the "1984" trends he identified to the trends Bradbury identified in Fahrenheit 451(3). In our time, we see the events of Bradbury's science fiction novel coming to pass every day. Custodians of our peace of mind Bradbury explained the origins of the book burnings in Fahrenheit 451 through his fire chief, Captain Beatty: "It didn't come from the ...
- 855: George Lucas
- ... it, I could not put it down. I always used to think that biographies where boring, but, because I read this book, my opinion has changed. I enjoyed reading this book as much as other fiction books I have read. I also feel that I can relate to Lucas because of the fact he is quiet and reserved. Usually, I have a fear of being the center of attention and hide ...
- 856: Ernest Hemingway 3
- ... with Agnes who left Henry for an Italian Army officer. It seems to me that the differences between the two men were only surface differences. They allowed Hemingway to call the novel a work of fiction. Had he written an autobiography the book would probably not have been well-received because Hemingway was not, at that time, a well known author. Although Hemingway denied critics' views that A Farewell to Arms ...
- 857: Edgar Allan Poe 5
- ... is not by any means Poe's best poem. With The Raven, Poe reached the height of his fame. Poe was the originator of the American short story. There had been other short works of fiction, but Poe perfected the short story as an art form. Conan Doyle was influenced by him, particularly in their early writing, before each had found his individual style. Poe led in his methods of analysis ...
- 858: Edgar Allan Poe 4
- ... on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 5. Wilbur, R. Modern Critical Views on Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. 6. Pickering, James. Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories. NJ:Prentice Hall, 1995. 7. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.
- 859: Ernest Hemingway 2
- ... objective is to say as much as possible as briefly as possible. This enables the thinking about the implications of the word s presented. Ernest Hemingway explained this idea in his iceberg theory of writing fiction in an interview for Paris Review: If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There are seven-eighths of it under water for every ...
- 860: Ernest Hemingway
- ... the last war that he would cover. When he went back to Cuba he fished a lot which also influenced him to write "The Old Man and the Sea." He won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and Life magazine even devoted an entire issue to the story. In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize. The last years of his life were hard. He had several bad relationships with several women ...
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