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- 831: Paul L. Dunbar
- ... six. Paul was one of the most popular poets of his time and was the first black American writer to achieve national and international reputation. He was not only a poet, but also a novelist, short story writer, writer of articles and dramatic sketches, plays and lyrics for musical compositions. His first volume of poetry, “Oak and Ivy” was published in 1893. Many of his poems and stories were written in Afro-American dialect, of which he was initially most noted for (Martin and Hudson 16). His second volume, “Majors and Minors” was published in 1895. “Majors and Minor” were a collection of ... novelist and critic, William Dean Howells who also introduced Dunbar’s next book, “Lyrics of Lowly Life” which contained some of the finest verses of the first two volumes. Dunbar was a popular writer of short fiction. He relied upon tone, subtle details expressed through speech, atmosphere, assumed manners and morals, and mood rather than plot to tell his tale. His depiction of life on plantations gives a vivid account ...
- 832: Lady Lazarus
- ... concludes with a triumph of good over evil, but at the same time suggests unsettlingly that this victory occurs so satisfyingly only in melodramas (Kalikoff, 96). Everything that Lady Audley does seems calculated. Unlike violent stories of the past in which a criminal kills for the sake of killing, Lady Audley is brilliant in her bigamy, her arson, and her "murder". The nature of her crimes reflect a general fear of ... novel for the market Collins had created. Although many people read and enjoyed the sensational style of writing, not everyone felt that way. As a sensation novelist, Braddon was often criticized by people who felt stories of crime were immoral and tainted. Critics also attacked her because they felt that "an authoress of originality and merit ought to aspire to higher things" (Peterson, 160). Murder mysteries, like melodramas, have specific characteristics ... own uncle that Talboy’s missing wife is married (Reed, 130). Then, Robert brings George to his uncle’s estate which creates the opportunity for George to meet his wife, Helen. The whole story, in short, is based on coincidence. It is also quite a coincidence that Luke, the innkeeper, happened to find George after he managed to climb out of the well. It was convenient that one of the ...
- 833: The Vedlt
- The Veldt In the book The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, there are many short stories one of these being "The Veldt." The story is told by tattoos on a traveling man's body. Another man watches the stories occur during the night. Peter and Wendy are convinced that they can do anything to get what they want no matter what the consequences. Peter and Wendy are brother and sister, they live with ...
- 834: River Of Names
- River of Names is part of a collection of short stories in the book Trash published in 1988, written by Dorothy Allison. It is the basis for the later novel Bastard out of Carolina. In her powerful writing, Allison draws on her own harrowing childhood in ... a sense of intermittent comfort. After each dreadful tale of abuse, incest, and murder is unfolded, the reader is brought back to Jesse for a bit of solace and comfort. In each of these horrible stories the character takes this abuse as if there is no alternative and that it is their predestination. Very slowly we stood up, embarrassed, looked at each other. We knew. If you fight back, they ...
- 835: Biography on Guy de Maupassant
- ... also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time, Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and concentrated on developing his skills as a writer of prose fiction. Maupassant wrote a collection of short stories that were published with a writers such as Bola, and Huysmans. Maupassant work outshone all the others by far. This is Maupassant became recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French authors of his time. In the years 1984 through 1985 he produced a great number of high caliber fiction. Most of these stories dealt with his experiences as a child in Normandy. During 1886-1887 Maupassant began to show signs of mental illness, probably the results of venereal disease. A sea voyage to improve his health enabled ...
- 836: Life Of Ma Parker
- ... life. Bibliography Irigaray, Luce. "Women on the Market" (chapter 8). This Sex Which Is Not One. pp. 170-191. Lohafer, Susan. "Why the ‘Life of Ma Parker’ Is Not So Simple: Preclosure in Issue-bound Stories". Studies in Short Fiction. 33.4 (1996): 475-86. Mansfield, Katherine. "Life of Ma Parker". The Garden Party and Other Stories. Ed. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: 1922. pp. 140-150. (taken from the web-site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmbt/women/mansfield/garden/parker.html) Mansfield, Katherine. "Miss Brill". pp. 330-336
- 837: A Deeper Look into Sexuality of Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and its Literary Criticisms
- ... would be a mistake. Works Cited Steinbeck, John. “The Chrysanthemums” 1937. Literature. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs eds. London: Prentice Hall, 1998. Mitchell, Marylin L. “'Steinbeck's Strong Women': Feminine Identity in the Short Stories,“ Southwest Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer, 1976, pp. 304- 15. McMahah, Elizabeth E. “'The Chrysanthemums': Study of a Woman's Sexuality,” Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. XIV, No 4. Winter, 1968-69, pp. 453-58. Hughes, R. S. John Steinbeck: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989.
- 838: Dandelion Wine
- ... his father. Also, Douglas got extremely sick and was dieing and there was no information on what kind of illness he had. Douglas took these problems hard. To many things where going bad in too short of a time. His family was always there for him. He got well and soon forgot about the deaths in his life, he knew that there was nothing to be sad about and he was ... so far back that it would be like riding a Time Machine. They now knew what it meant to live and to be alive and they appreciated it. Dandelion wine was like a series of short stories that collided together at the end of the book. Nothing related to anything else until the end when, like a jigsaw puzzle, everything fit in its place. Douglas and Tom had been through a ...
- 839: Male Relations with Women
- ... Wallpaper" written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, all bear out this point. Often women are treated with respect, or only as decoration, but mainly men do not seem to know how to handle women. These four short stories are all based on mans relationship with women, or often times, the absence of a relationship. In the story, "Hills like White Elephants" Ernest Hemingway lets the reader take a peek into two peoples lives ... is ready to move on, Leroy is perfectly willing to keep things the same. Leroy's main problem is not that he does not want to change, but he does not know how. In the short story "The Magic Barrel", Leon Finkle does not know how to relate to women. After he hires a matchmaker he realizes the real reason he did this is because he did not know how ...
- 840: Our Hearts Fell To The Ground
- Colin Calloway has done a masterful job of selecting and presenting an array of speeches, letters, documents, and drawings that tell compelling stories about the Plain Indians in the 1800's. His introduction alone has just the right level of information and links basic themes and events to the documents presented in the text. In short, a model of how an introduction should be done. Colin Calloway's intentions were to focus on the humanistic study of the Plain Indians views on how the West was lost. It provides us with ... used tribal customs as a means to manifest the actual torment the Plains Indians encountered. The Native Americans were regarded as "people without history", when in fact the Indians recorded their history by songs, dances, stories, legends, and visual records on buffalo robes known as winter counts. Calloway reveals to the reader the Ways the Native American used the winter counts as a mnemonic device passed from one generation to ...
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