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- 201: Catcher In The Rye 4
- ... facing American youth during the 1950's. When developing a comprehensive opinion of the novel, it is important to consider the praises and criticisms of The Catcher in the Rye.When studying a piece of literature, it is meaningful to note the historical background of the piece and the time at which it was written. Two J.D. Salinger short stories, "I'm Crazy" and "Slight Rebellion off Madison," were published ... The Catcher in the Rye, is derived from thoughtful and sympathetic insights into both adolescence and adulthood, his use of symbolism, and his idiomatic style, which helped to re-introduce the common idiom to American literature. While the young protagonists of Salinger's stories (such as Holden Caulfield) have made him a longtime favorite of high school and university audiences, establishing Salinger as "the spokesman for the goals and values for ... a marvelous entertainer, a man free of the slogans and clichés the rest of us fall prey to" (qtd. in Davis 317).Obviously, the bulk of praise and criticism regarding any novel or piece of literature will come from published critical reviews. When a novel or any piece of literature is published in the United States, critics from newspapers, magazines, and various other sources flock to interpret the book and ...
- 202: Youth And Poetry
- ... how important it is. Educational institutions have introduced and taught us poetry, but still we do not grasp the quality and meaning of having poetry in our lives. With poetry comes imagination, but today s literature does not promote of the exercising of our imagination. In the past, poetry affected young people even if it was to a small or large degree. It was always present in some part of their ... people today have no sense of imagination or creative thought. We were trained and conditioned in a way where we need not use our creativity to produce a piece of work. Today, instead of reading literature, we are fulfilled by watching movies in theatres. The movies are made in a way that we do not need to use our imagination. Even today s literature is extensively descriptive to the point where it leaves nothing to the imagination because everything is laid out for us. We are told what colour hair, height, frame size, etc. a character has. When ...
- 203: The Style and Influences of Lewis Carroll
- ... on one such occasion, while he was taking the daughters of one of his coworkers on a boat ride, that he had the inspiration for one of the most famous children's stories in English literature- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. One of the girls on the boat ride was Alice Liddell. She was Carroll's favorite of the girls there. During the boat ride, he decided to make up a ... his hobby of photography in 1880 (Bassett 74). In addition to the influence of his young friends on his works, his own childhood did somewhat affect his writing style, as well as his appreciation of literature. He was the first son and third child of his family, which eventually grew the size of 13 total (Bassett 4). Morton Cohen tells us that although they were considered upper middle class, they did ... development of their minds (4). Also, being one of the oldest children, it was his responsibility to entertain the younger children, which he did with stories and poems (105). His whole family was interested in literature, and published many family magazines. One of these, The Rectory Umbrella, was written, illustrated, and edited by Carroll in 1849 (Bassett 8). In his biography of Lewis Carroll, Morton Cohen quotes S.D. Collingwood: " ...
- 204: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... five stories called Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (“Poe, Edgar Allan,” World Book Encyclopedia 591). Even when this collection failed to sale or gain recognition, Poe still kept a daily routine of working on literature. In 1843 he sold 300,000 copies of “The Gold Bug” (592). Also in 1843 Poe published one his greatest works, “The Tell-Tale Heart” (“Poe Edgar Allan,” Encarta Encyclopedia n. pag). Then again in ... of his death had remained a mystery since then. Several theories have been presented before the public, but only one has the evidence to back up its claim—rabies. All of Poe’s works of literature possess a link to his own life’s stories and events. His characters’ profiles possess biographical insights into his loved ones’ lives. Poe learned sometime in his life that a good story possesses real life ... abnormally strong.” (Buranelli 23) Poe was a genius in the literary field and that gave him the grounds to say so. As he explains in this passage, his far superior ability to write pieces of literature caused a lot of friction between the modern day critics and writers and himself. This passage was an autobiographical account of his writing style and its effect on the society of the time. Along ...
- 205: Africa 2
- ... are found in Egypt, Nigeria, Algeria, Sudan, and Morocco, but there are Muslims as far south as Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique. Most African Muslims belong to the Sunni branch of Islam. (See also Islam; Islamic Literature.) Art and Literature African art is as diverse as the cultures and languages of the continent. The artistic styles of the countries of North Africa have been strongly influenced by Islamic art and are, in large measure, part ... and others transmitted orally from one generation to another. The epic of Sundiata, who founded the kingdom of Mali in West Africa in the 13th century, is one of the best examples of this "oral literature." Since the 19th century, many Africans have been writing poetry, novels, and a variety of nonfiction works in European languages. Chinua Achebe of Nigeria and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o of Kenya are two of ...
- 206: Censorship
- ... how criminal law defines obscenity. But it is rather vague. It doesn't differentiate between "ordinary obscenity" and "hard-core pornography." The first denoting the ordinary run of "girlie magazines and the second denoting pictures , literature and so on that deal with rape, sadism, masochism, bestiality, necrophilia and other perversions. People tend to object far more to "hard- core pornography." Another distinction unfortunately overlooked by our criminal law is the distinction between isolated instances of obscenity and the products of vast commercial enterprise. There has been an increasing trend towards children's literature that reflects a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these realistic books that have people ... by a wide range of sources, from television and other forms of media, their environment at home and school, their personality and their background. Why they read does not necessarily mean that they will follow. Literature is a valued source of knowledge for these children, and should not be held back. So rather than applying full censorship, it should be made an age-related censorship. Many of the complaints that ...
- 207: Gatsby Essay For Rocco's Fat Ass.
- ... of World War One, people and the world had changed. People no longer conformed to the traditional ways but rebelled and sought out new idea and ways of doing things, this rebellion also flowed into literature. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses uncertainty, disjointedness, and disillusionment for the content of his story. The reason why he is a master of modernist writing is because he not only makes his ... what to expect in the future of the novel. He also used disjointedness to show how people of the 1920’s didn’t feel apart of anything and had no structure in their lives, (American Literature 6 ) The Great Gatsby main theme is how money corrupts people. All of the rich character, with the exception of Gatsby, inherited their money, while Gatsby had to earn his. He was a bootlegger and ... people, the “old money”, because he is “new money”. This is a strong technique Fitzgerald uses. It shows how people of the time changed after the war. They no longer felt apart of society, (American Literature 6 ). The third part of modernist content that Fitzgerald used was disillusionment. Nick is the most disillusioned character in the novel. He arriver in New York thinking that the rich are better than average ...
- 208: The Beat Generation
- ... of the most influential literary movements of this century has been that of the Beat Generation. The Beat writers were a small group of close friends first, and a movement later. The Beat Generation in literature consist of a small number of writers, of which Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs are the best known today. All three men met at Columbia University in New York City in the ... Ginsberg had met in a mental hospital (Asher 5-8). The eldest Beat writer, William S.Burroughs was called the “outlaw” and his style of writing was the “new vision.” Burroughs writings was considered a “literature at risk.” Searching for his identity, Burroughs sought a criminal lifestyle that included stealing and selling syringes of morphine. During this corrupt time, he wrote the novel “Naked Lunch.” According to Parrisi, the novel is anti-literature literature which has no narrative smoothness, no borrowed ideas or feelings(1-3). Burroughs novel is a result of turning one persons reality into a general reality. “Naked Lunch” is a book with obscene ...
- 209: American Transcendentalism
- ... American Transcendentalism was a literary and philosophical movement that emerged in New England around 1836 and flourished for ten years until 1846. This school of thought had a profound influence on American religion, philosophy, politics, literature, and art. The American Transcendentalist rejected this empiricism, asserting that wisdom is inherent in the soul of each human being. The roots of the Transcendentalists' humanistic philosophy is that which exalts the individual as a ... in Europe. The Transcendentalist were a number of young Americans, most of them born into the Unitarianism of New England in the early nineteenth century, who in the 1830's became excited about the new literature of England, and who thereupon revolted against the rationalism of their fathers (Miller 1). Although they were active for a relatively brief period, they were centered in a narrow geographical area encompassing the New England ... Transcendentalist are considered visionaries in their attitudes toward such issues as social protest, equality of the sexes, creative and participatory education for children, and labor reform. The Transcendentalism movement is acknowledged as having infused American literature with its own distinctive character. The authors of what has been called the Renaissance period, including Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne, and Dickinson, were immensely influenced by American Transcendentalism in style, theme, and thought. They were ...
- 210: King Arthur And Camelot
- ... This is the great English version of the story, compiled out of earlier versions by the creative genius of a rather mysterious and cryptic figure, the knight, Sir Thomas Malory. The main characters in romance literature are larger than life. Romance literature is concerned with the feats of kings, queens, and knights---not with common, ordinary people. They follow a code of chivalry. A main character in romance literature is braver, nobler, and more honorable than an ordinary human. Oftentimes, the medieval period in general, and King Arthur in particular, have an air of mystery, romance, fantasy, and adventure that are popular themes ...
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