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- 111: House Of The Seven Gables
- ... trials were because he was living in the very time they were taking place. Therefore, I do think that the personal history and cultural background affect what the author writes about whether the book be fiction or non-fiction, but most of the time, non-fiction. An example of an author I can come up with where I strongly think their personal history and cultural background significantly influence what she writes about is Amy Tan. I have read two of ...
- 112: Book Review: Nemesis
- ... of age, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn, New York. Asimov turned to full time writing in 1958. This accomplished writer is best known for his novels dealing with science fiction. However, his works extend to other subjects. These include humour, mystery, history, and some volumes involving the Bible and Shakespeare. He has published around 500 books for both young and adult readers. His most famous science- fiction writings are I, Robot (1950) and The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953). Asimov was dubbed a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1987 by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He died in 1992. Setting: The story takes place in two time periods. One set of events takes place in the present, while the other ...
- 113: Lewis' "Surprise by Joy": Analysis
- ... to say, there were three different vocations that Lewis fulfilled--and fulfilled successfully--in his lifetime. There was, first, Lewis the distinguished Oxford don and literary critic; secondly, Lewis, the highly acclaimed author of science fiction and children's literature; and thirdly, Lewis, the popular writer and broadcaster of Christian apologetics. The amazing thing, Barfield notes, is that those who may have known of Lewis in any single role may not ... sources, an attitude he opposed all of his life in reading others. We don't need the critics to enjoy Chaucer, he once said, but Chaucer to enjoy the critics. As it stands, both his fiction and theological writings have been endlessly anthologized and hyper-critically explored, creating a trail of footnotes and asides long enough to camouflage the essential viewpoints and facts about his life--thus discouraging even the most ... fundamental objectivity that accompanied such scholarly works as The Allegory of Love (1936) or A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942). Even though Lewis's circle of friends included a veritable who's who of popular fiction, among them J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Dorothy L. Sayers, only those who had a direct influence on his coming to faith receive specific citation or focus. In a word, Surprised by ...
- 114: Lady Audleys Secret
- ... a patriarchal world. Lady Audley evokes a fear of women s independence and sexuality. As a popular Victorian genre that trades on the power of the secret and frequently sexualized sins of its heroines, sensation fiction provides a resourceful perspective on the contradiction that frame these villainous victims who are simultaneously diseased, depraved, and socially and economically oppressed (Bernstein, 73). Lady Audley s ability to control the men in her life ... Robert Audley openly challenges Lady Audley with deceiving her husband about her past, she responds by threatening to charge him with madness. The fact that such a threat could be seriously entertained shows how far fiction had gone to accept the contemporary social concern about the mismanagement of the laws dealing with the insane (Reed, 205). Another part of the book that deals with madness occurs towards the end. Before Robert ... seemingly no real purpose in the novel turns out to be the key to unlocking the whole plot. This technique was very popular in Victorian mystery. By using the elements of both melodrama and mystery fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was able to create her most famous work of her long lasted career, Lady Audley s Secret. Her ability to construe a mystery and keep the reader involved in her work ...
- 115: Comparison Between Virginia Wo
- Their respective essays Tradition And The Individual Talent and Modern Fiction serve only to underline the tremendous difference in the views of Eliot and Woolf with regard to literary tradition and the role of the artist. Eliot sees it as being incumbent upon the artist to ... in terms of the earlier alchemists and their somewhat romantic mystical aura rather than some cold clinical experiment. This attitude again presupposes the poet in the role of a catalyst. Woolf s ideas in Modern Fiction are the antithesis of those of Eliot. She begins by suggesting, it is difficult not to take it for granted that the modern practice of the art is somehow an improvement upon the old. Perhaps ... patterns through which people in a society experience the world. Different societies, he says, have different cultures. But on the other hand there is the more common meaning of culture , simply donating the arts, including fiction. In A Room Of One s Own, it can be suggested that Woolf is concerned with both meaning of culture, as in getting culture and being cultured she connects these two meanings through the ...
- 116: Biography of Arthur Clarke
- Biography of Arthur Clarke Arthur C. Clarke, a science fiction author, has had a very interesting life. Arthur was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England. He was the oldest of four children. His two brothers were Frederick and Michael, and his sister's ... member of the Royal Air Force.Then later he became the assistant editor of Science Abstracts, a science magazine. After quitting his job as the assistant editor, he decided to become a full-time science fiction author. Arthur has never been married, and still, to this day, is a bachelor. Clarke is a very successful writer. In fact, he is considered to be one of the most successful science fiction authors ever! He has written many books, including: Hammer of god; 2001, a space Odyssey; Prelude to Space; The Sands of Mars; Islands in the Sky; Against the Fall of Night; Childhood's End; ...
- 117: Censorship And The Internet
- ... Spring 1996). 5 Bryan Bradford and Mark Krumholz, "Telecommunications and Decency: Big Brother goes Digital," Business Today, Spring 1996 : 12-16. 6 Bruce, Sterling, "Short History of the Internet," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, http://www.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history.of.internet (17 Apr. 1996). 7 Bruce, Sterling, "Short History of the Internet," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, http://www.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history.of.internet (17 Apr. 1996). 8 Shari, Steele, "Taking a Byte Out of the First Amendment. How Free Is Speech in Cyberspace?" Human Rights, http ... com/special/lawsuit. 17 Heather Irwin, "Geeks Take to the Streets," Hotwired.com, http://www.hotwired.com/special/indecent/rally.html 18 Bruce, Sterling, "Short History of the Internet," The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, http://www.isoc.org:70/00/internet/history/short.history.of.internet (17 Apr. 1996). Bibliography Bradford, Bryan and Mark Krumholz. "Telecommunications and Decency: Big Brother goes Digital." Business Today Spring 1996 : 12-16. ...
- 118: The Vampire Genre By V Sthe Va
- ... chase, the Count is beheaded and stabbed through the heart and then his body crumbles to dust. In this novel, the main character Dracula is the basis of all vampire conventions in modern day vampire fiction. These popular conventions are as follows: Vampires are living dead as they have no heart beat and do not breathe, yet they think, walk and speak as humans can. They are immortal but they must ... nose and claw like fingernails and ofcourse the fangs. All of these features belong to predator animals and reinforce a sense of fear in the audience. As well as coming under the horror genre vampire fiction usually contains a sub plot and a genre within a genre. In almost all vampire films and novels romance is present. Dracula follows the theme of love and the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula ... it is from a vampires point of view and is about the inner turmoil of being a vampire. This film is about love, belonging and morality as well as the basic vampire horror. As vampire fiction as been around for over a hundred years the conventions of the genre have to be added to, edited or a combination of the two in order for audiences to keep on seeing the ...
- 119: Robotics
- Robotics The image usually thought of by the word robot is that of a mechanical being, somewhat human in shape. Common in science fiction, robots are generally depicted as working in the service of people, but often escaping the control of the people and doing them harm. The word robot comes from the Czech writer Karel Capek's 1921 ... they are being developed to aid people who have lost the use of their limbs. These devices, however, are for the most part quite different from the androids, or humanlike robots, and other robots of fiction. They rarely take human form, they perform only a limited number of set tasks, and they do not have minds of their own. In fact, it is often hard to distinguish between devices called robots ... the probes that have landed on and tested the soils of the moon, Venus, and Mars, and the pilotless planes and guided missiles of the military. None of these robots look like the androids of fiction. Although it would be possible to construct a robot that was humanlike, true androids are still only a distant possibility. For example, even the apparently simple act of walking on two legs is very ...
- 120: The Vampire Genre (v.s)
- ... chase, the Count is beheaded and stabbed through the heart and then his body crumbles to dust. In this novel, the main character Dracula is the basis of all vampire conventions in modern day vampire fiction. These popular conventions are as follows: Vampires are living dead as they have no heart beat and do not breathe, yet they think, walk and speak as humans can. They are immortal but they must ... nose and claw like fingernails and ofcourse the fangs. All of these features belong to predator animals and reinforce a sense of fear in the audience. As well as coming under the horror genre vampire fiction usually contains a sub plot and a genre within a genre. In almost all vampire films and novels romance is present. Dracula follows the theme of love and the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula ... it is from a vampires point of view and is about the inner turmoil of being a vampire. This film is about love, belonging and morality as well as the basic vampire horror. As vampire fiction as been around for over a hundred years the conventions of the genre have to be added to, edited or a combination of the two in order for audiences to keep on seeing the ...
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