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Spider Woman Human Community
1,673 wordsIt is often said that a great work of art is like a dream, full of colours, greatness and splendour. The playful authors of Kiss of the Spider woman and Double Hook dont escape that definition, providing theirs readers with a writing that perpetually dance on the boundaries of fantasy, oscillating between realism, fairy- tale and dream. The resort to history and particularly to myth is a prerequisite for the entrance in this imaginary realm. In the two fictions, the mythical element w more used ...
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Short Story Criticism Style Of Writing
866 wordsD. H. Lawrence's story The Rocking Horse Winner is about a young boy who sets out on a journey to save his mother from bad luck. Lawrence's writing style imparts a mythical tone to captivates his audience. The beginning of the story, the reader can easily see how Lawrence set the story in a fairytale fashion. He utilize a style that pulls off a mythical story by employing fairytale story writing, supernatural forces and symbolic meaning. In the opening of the story, Lawrence describes a beautifu...
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Iambic Tetrameter Literary Criticism
4,872 wordsWilliams 1 Connie Williams Professor Carroll May 26, 2000 The Beginnings of Literary Study For Dummies J A Modified Version of R. L. Mcguire's Passionate Attention: an introduction to literary study. Literature and criticism Authors basic assumption of a book- the reading and the study of literature cannot and do not take place outside the context of human values. Ones unique personal experiences are from whence their values are formed. These values come to light as a reader reads or a writer wr...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Larger Than Life
2,712 wordsMyth versus Realism in the Old West LONESOME DOVE While Larry McMurtry honors certain mythical features of the Old West, his epic, Lonesome Dove, is the quintessential representation of the realism of the Old West. By contrast, mythic representations of the Old West tend to look absurd and silly. Stories such as the one portrayed in the film True Grit appear to be ridiculous because of their one-dimensional presentation of characters, including women; their passive, utopian environments; and the...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Personal Interview
2,790 words" Old West" LONESOME DOVE While Larry McMurtry honors certain mythical features of the " Old West, " his epic, Lonesome Dove, is the quintessential representation of the realism of the " Old West. " By contrast, mythic representations of the " Old West" tend to look absurd and silly. Stories such as the one portrayed in the film " True Grit" appear to be ridiculous because of their one-dimensional presentation of characters, including women; thei...
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Don Juan Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
1,513 wordsA MYTHICAL ANALYSIS OF A YAQUI WAY OF KNOWLEDGE In the summer of 1960, Carlos Casteneda, a UCLA anthropology student traveled to the southwest to do research on medicinal plants. While at a bus station, he met an extraordinary man. His name was don Juan Mateus, but I will refer to him as don Juan. Don Juan, a Yaqui bruno or shaman, decides to teach Carlos the Yaqui way of knowledge. It is not known if these stories are fiction or non-fiction and many critics still debate over his writings. I int...
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