post the Partition of India in 1947‚ no other writer comes close to the oeuvre of Saadat Hassan Manto. Since he started his literary career translating works of literary giants‚ like Victor Hugo‚ Oscar Wilde and many Russian masters like Chekov and Gorky‚ their collective influence made him search for his own moorings. This search resulted in his first story‚ Tamasha‚ based on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar. Though his earlier works‚ influenced by the progressive writers of his times showed
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The cinema of attraction. ‘A matter of making images seen.’ This is what Fernand Léger was writing in 1902 about the new art‚ trying to describe the possible changes in cinema‚ by emphasizing the fact that imitating the movements of nature is not necessarily the best way of defining cinema’s essence. This is only one of the writings concerning this topic which influenced Tom Gunning in characterizing the cinematic period before 1906 as that of the ‘cinema of attractions’. In this essay I am
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Wu 1 Political Repression‚ Cultural Autonomy and Artistic Excellence: The Case of Shostakovich As an important type of suppression of dissent‚ political repression on arts refers to actions taken by the government to censor certain forms or subjects of artistic expression because of inconformity to the regime’s legitimacy or official ideology (Mulcahy‚ 1984). Often seen in totalitarian societies such as Nazi Germany‚ Soviet Union and China in modern ages (Rothstein‚ 1981)‚ this kind of repression
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prefer I much [prefer] locally made beer to the kind made by the big breweries. Francis thought marmalade on toast was [preferable] to strawberry jam. I would like to travel to Europe next spring‚ [preferably] to Italy. Joseph likes playing soccer‚ but Lawrence’s [preference] is baseball. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu once said‚ “I [prefer] liberty to chains of diamonds.” Would you prefer to travel to Mexico in March or in April? Sammy [prefers] woollen gloves‚ but I like fleece mitts. Studies
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Russian literature: History Overview Russian literature has long been a cultural focus of the entire world. It’s not surprising that the formation of Russia’s first literary traditions goes back to the first century. The adoption of Christianity boosted the development of literacy‚ philosophy and theological literature. The earliest literary works were not written in the Russian language but in Old Church Slavonic which was developed in the 9th century by Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius
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what Druzyaev was trying to make him out to be. He compared this situation to ones experienced by other prominent scholars such as Boris Astrug saying “Astrug had made a few mistakes in his time—there were some methodological lapses in his book on Gorky” (Trifonov 307). He understood that
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before some time. Nonetheless‚ he played an important role in the philosophic foundation for later modern movements‚ in particular abstract expressionism and its variants like color field painting. His work had a large influence on artists such as Gorky (which also helped shape the New York School’s aesthetic)‚ but was also of interest to Pollock‚ Rothko and
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Wentao Wang RHET 250 Prof. Kuo Essay 4 12/07/2012 SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON-an analysis of visual and textual impact on its children readers Maxim Gorky once said: “Books are stairs of human progress.” They are always one of the significant parts to establish human civilizations. Throughout thousands of years‚ a book could elaborate an entire life of a heroic warrior‚ could tell a beautiful story of love‚ could record a series of unknown facts that happened in history‚ and they even could
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Ana Lilia Aguirre Mr. Ochoa English IV January 13‚ 2015 Alexander Pushkin: Russia ’s Greatest Poet “It ’s a lucky man‚ a very lucky man‚ who is committed to what he believes‚ who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveler resting for the night at wayside inn.” (Pushkin XLIX). Alexander Pushkin is consider one of the best Russian authors of the Romantic era. Pushkin was committed to social reform becoming a spokesman of literary radicals
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A Brief Introduction to Russian Formalism Zhu Gang In the heyday of high modernism emerged a group of college students and young faculty in Moscow and Petersburg‚ Russia‚ whose interest was claimed to be literature per se. They were few in number‚ but their unmistakable insistence on the ideal status of literary study and stubborn pursuit for its realization has marked the beginning of a new era‚ and produced profound influence on the subsequent development of contemporary Western critical
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