Literature is yet another genre that Africa’s intellectual elites struggle to elucidate coherence for dissemination and consumption to ingrain within viable institutions. Modern African literature is considered a byproduct as well as an explicit goal engineered at the Berlin Conference (1884-5) by the imperialist nations of Europe. The challenge for African literature is to be incorporated in the ‘universal’ standards of literary canons without the demeaning criticisms of this controlled universalism
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Fantasy Literature and Fantastic Language ENG 290 Rachel De Luise University of Phoenix For the assignment I am to choose one poem and one work of fantasy from two different cultural traditions. Choosing the fantasy was easy‚ but choosing the poem was a little difficult for me. For the poem‚ I chose “High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee‚ Jr. The poem was listed in our textbook as a sonnet. A sonnet is a very old form of poetry‚ having gained prominence during the Renaissance period
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Literature Definition: Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking‚ "literature" is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works‚ but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination‚ including works of poetry‚ drama‚ fiction‚ and nonfiction. Why do we read literature? Literature represents a language or a people: culture and tradition. But‚ literature is more important than
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What is Literature? What is literature? Nowadays‚ literature seems to be slowly depleting. Much of this generation’s youth are what we now call‚ illiterate. The advancements of technologies gradually helped the adolescents to become lazier. For example‚ text messaging. I know text messaging is a fun and easy way to communicate with your friends‚ but the amount of laziness teenagers put into it is completely ridicule. Spelling “u” instead of “you” is one example. Another example--by far is the
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American University of Sharjah Department of Arabic ARA 301 The Maghazi Literature Name: | Lieth Al-Fityani | July 21‚ 2011 Abstract Arabic was chiefly a spoken language with an oral literature of elaborate poetry and‚ to a lesser extent‚ prose. It is certainly known that the revelation of Quran had an important impact on the development of the Arabic literature. In the pre-Islamic era‚ both poetry and prose dealt with a restricted range of topics; however with the rise
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Postmodern literature The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily‚ for example‚ on fragmentation‚ paradox‚ questionable narrators‚ etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature. Postmodern literature‚ like postmodernism as a whole‚ is difficult to define and there is little agreement on the
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The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered‚ stable and inherently meaningful worldview of the nineteenth century could not‚ wrote T.S. Eliot‚ accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic
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What is Literature? Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work‚ and is not confined to published sources (although‚ under some circumstances‚ unpublished sources can also be exempt). The word literature literally means "things made from letters" and the pars pro toto term "letters" is sometimes used to signify "literature‚" as in the figures of speech "arts and letters" and "man of letters." The four major classifications of literature are poetry‚ prose‚ fiction
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Environments play a major role in literature because they give setting and context. The environment or setting gives background in a piece of literature‚ and often certain aspects of the story derive directly from the environment or context. This is true with everything that humans do as well: one thing is a direct result of another‚ and because our environment constantly surrounds us‚ everything we do is a direct reflection of that. Our environment shapes us to the extent that we would be completely
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Glossary of Terms for the Analysis of Literature ACROSTIC - Usually verse arranged in such a way as to present names or phrases or sentences when certain letters selected according to an orderly sequence are brought together to form an alphabet‚ a name (often that of the author‚ a patron‚ or a loved one)‚ or some other concealed message. AESTHETICS – Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty‚ especially the arts; the theory of art or of artistic tastes
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