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Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie
1,305 wordsTheodore Dreiser was born August 27, 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana. The younger brother of Paul Dresser, a well-known songwriter, Theodore was a famous novelist known for his outstanding American writing of naturalism. He was also a leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter. Even though a majority of his works were about his life experiences, he also wrote about new so...
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Arthur Gordon Pym U S Military
1,742 wordsEdgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), was an American poet, short-story writer, and literary critic. Poe's stormy personal life and his haunting poems and stories combined to make him one of the most famous figures in American literary history. Poe's influence on literature has been immense. His short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is considered the first modern detective story. His reviews of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne mark him as the first significant theorist of the modern s...
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James Fenimore Cooper Nineteenth Century
600 wordsJames Fenimore Cooper was born in the year 1789, and lived in New York State until 1803. (1) Since James Fenimore Cooper lived along the frontier, he was able to capture that way of life and accurately portray it in his novels. (2) This is one of the many reasons why he was loved and admired as a writer. James Cooper attended Yale University. (3) After he was expelled his junior year in 1805, (4) he enlisted in the Navy as a common seaman in 1806 and then went on to warrant a midshipman from 180...
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Dorothy Van Ghent And Tristram Shandy Primary Purposes
1,791 wordsThe uniqueness of Tristram Shandy has pushed critics to see many different topics as the central concern of the work. It may even be an impossible task to pinpoint which of two seemingly contradictory themes Tristram is pursuing, because Tristram does not give us much of a beginning, middle, or end, preferring to stream along in digressive contentment. However, as Jean-Jacques Mayoux writes, it may be possible to transcend subjectivity by seeking coherence. In other words, by examining a theory ...
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Rocking Horse Winner D H Lawrence
969 wordsDavid Herbert Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist, was born in Nottinghamshire, England, in 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence's first-published works (in 1909) were poems, and his poetry, especially his evocations of the natural world, have since had a significant influence on many poets on both sides of the Atlantic. Susan Glaspell was born in 1882 and raised in Davenport, Iowa. Glaspell began her career as a novelist and author of sentimental short stories...
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Puritan Themes In Nathaniel Hawthorne Writing
842 wordsAmerican novelist and nineteenth century writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was the first writer to apply artistic judgment to Puritan society. There were many transcendentalists during Hawthorne's time period, but his works showed little optimism and self-confidence. Most of his works were written from a Puritan preoccupation (Compton's Encyclopedia, 83). With a series of short stories and novels that brought back the life of New England's Puritan past, Hawthorne achieved one of the most distinguished ...
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Point Of View Literary History
1,072 wordsNabokov's Pnin is a novel that incorporates all of its interior and exterior ideas into its story, or in the words of Brian Stonehill is a self-conscious novel. Stonehill explains that the essential key that separates a self-conscious novel from one which is not involves four ideas: the author of the novel, the reader of the novel, the literary history behind the novel, and the real world relevance of the novel. Stonehill explains that in a novel which is not self-conscious these ideas remain ex...
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Theme Of This Story Important To Remember
1,105 words... he meanings of words throughout the story. Many allusions and references are made in chapter two of the story that has to do with names of people, for example, Dr. Rosetta Stone, one of the most destructive psychiatrists of the day (Nabokov 44). Other examples include the Clements, Robert Treble, and Charles Macbeth. The name of the couple, Clements, is an allusion to the word clemency because, in the story, they are very generous people by nature. Robert Treble, whose last name alludes to t...
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Jane Austen Novels Jane Austen Austen's
783 words"Miss Austen was surely a great novelist. What she did, she did perfectly. Her work, as far as it goes, is faultless. She wrote of the times in which she lived, of the class of people with which she associated, and in the language which was usual to her as an educated lady. Of romance, -- what we generally mean when we speak of romance -- she had no tinge. Heroes and heroines with wonderful adventures there are none in her novels. Of great criminals and hidden crimes she tells us nothing. But sh...
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Adam Phillips Mr Phillips Equals
1,034 wordsCaring, but little sharingEqualsAdam Phillips 160 pp, Faber Adam Phillips, the psychotherapist and editor of writers including Lamb, Pater and Burke, is also considered by many to be a grand master of the essay form. One of the finest prose stylists at work in the language, according to John Banville. In a passage quoted on the jacket of Equals, his new book, the Observer critic Gaby Wood compares him to Kafka, Benjamin, and Kundera, and credits him with single-handedly continuing the tradition ...
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2,749 wordsMovimiento vanguardist a espa? ol e hispano americano Con este nombre se design los movimiento's art? stico's y literario's que name en el siglo XX, aproximadamente desde 1910 a 1939. Su? post de m? xml e splendor es hasta 1920, a partir de 1930 dean pues el arte se acerca de nuevo a la realized y se hace social y comprometido pol? tica mente. En la Gaceta Literary, junio de 1930, Guillermo de Torre da una larga lista con los movimiento's de vanguard: Cubism Character? sticks generales: Futurism...
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Change The World Le Monde
3,118 wordsPublish and be damned Anomie is a disease which disproportionately afflicts French novelists. But even by the standards of the country that gave us Proust (a bedridden neurasthenic) and Sartre (the author of Nausea), Michel Houellebecq represents a particularly acute case. Houellebecq is Frances biggest literary sensation in 20 years and his suffering is enormous. To spend a weekend in his company is to become an unwitting participant in a sensory-deprivation experiment. External stimuli are red...
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Lady Brett Ashley Sun Also Rises
1,278 wordsErnest Hemingway- Allegorical Figures In THE Ernest Hemingway- Allegorical Figures In THE SUN ALSO RISES HemingwaErnest Hemingway: Allegorical Figures in The Sun Also Rises Ka Hemingway 2 Thesis: Hemingway deliberately shaped the protagonists in The Sun Also Rises as allegorical figures. OUTLINE I. The Sun Also Rises A. Hemingway? s novel. B. Hemingway? s protagonists are deliberately shaped as allegorical figures. C. Novel symbolizing the impotence after W. W. I. I. Jake Barnes. A. Wound. 1. Da...
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2,083 wordsLord of the Flies Outline I. The classic novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding is an exciting adventure deep into the nether regions of the mind. The part of out brain that is suppressed by the mundane tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack, the boys and the Beast, good and evil. II. Novel Analysis: A. The title refers to Beelzebub, most stinking and depraved of all the devils: it is he, and not the God of the Christians, who is worshipped (Burgess 121). B. -evil i...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar Caged Bird Sings
1,579 wordsPaul Laurence Dunbar by English 102 August 4, 1995 Outline Thesis: The major accomplishments of Paul Laurence Dunbar's life during 1872 to 1938 label him as being an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. I. Introduction II. American poet A. Literary English B. Dialect poet 1. Oak and Ivy 2. Majors and Minors 3. Lyrics of Lowly Life 4. Lyrics of the Hearthside 5. Sympathy III. Short story writer A. Folks from Dixie (1898) B. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories (1900) C. The Heart ...
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Young Woman Young Man
1,969 wordsThe country girls home truths In the Forest Edna OBrien 208 pp, Weidenfeld A friend tells this story about Edna OBrien; he was perhaps 10 at the time. His father, a writer of some renown, had a cabin in the woods, a holiday home for his large family. Guests sometimes came and shared the cosy if cramped quarters, including a bathroom at the far end of a kitchen where the writer and his family liked to sit at the table for leisurely meals and animated talk. During one such meal my friend recalls t...
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Danielle Westerman Carol Shields Reta
1,181 wordsHell hath no fury Unless by Carol Shields 224 pp, Fourth Estate The chapter headings of Carol Shieldss new novel take the form of prepositions and conjunctions Notwithstanding, Despite, Whatever, etc. The word But is not among them, though its one she has met, in open deprecation or as a silent parenthesis, when her books are reviewed. Her best-known books Happenstance, The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party, The Republic of Love are known for their accessibility (but not for their wisdom); are praise...
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1,144 wordsTues: lunch with Baader-MeinhofAny Human Heart William Boyd Hamish Hamilton? 17. 99, pp 503 In 1998, William Boyd pulled off a famous little hoax. He invented an all-American artist, one Nat Tate, a friend of Jackson Pollock who, in an alcoholic despair, jumped off the Staten Island ferry to his death, most of his potential unfulfilled. Boyd wrote a little book about Tate, full of grainy archive photos apparently of the artist with his cronies, the critic Clement Greenberg and the poet Frank OHa...
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802 wordsHes showboating again Coming Soon! ! ! John Barth Atlantic Books? 14. 99, pp 448 Calling John Barth self-conscious is about as helpful as calling Kafka odd. The highly wrought games and puzzles of the postmodern novel Barth helped invent are already self-parodic. Barth writes double-helix narratives in which the tangled tango of life and art always threatens to spiral dizzily out of control. The plot of a Barth novel is never easy to summarise, because writing is the story: process as content, a...
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1,041 wordsStephen Crane? s The Red Badge of Courage is a novel that reflects its time period and the style of its author to a great extent. Also, it was praised for its accuracy. Ironically, Crane lived after the civil war and never served in the military. Stephen Crane? s life is portrayed on the web site web Crane, Stephen (1871 - 1900), American novelist and poet, one of the first American exponents of the naturalistic style of writing. Crane is known for his pessimistic and often brutal portrayals of ...
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