taken from the book <The unvexed isles> - it’s a collection of the stories of American and English writers. The author of this story is Robert Penn Warren - an American poet‚ novelist‚ and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. The story is rather heavy-going‚ but thought-provoking. The plot is rather static and is of no great importance here‚ the tone of the narration is quite melancholic. The author also gives us the chronological system of narration. The actions
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Chapter Three Take Home Test (see directions for submitting the assignment after the test questions...) What are the five objectives that a literature program should have? (p. 70) 5 points A literature program should provide entertainment for children‚ help children identify with their literary heritage‚ help students further understand elements of literature‚ help students understand themselves‚ and help students develop an understanding to reflect on what they have read. What is the sixth objective
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Literature and Environment: An Ecocritical Approach to Haifaa Al-Sanoussi’s Departure of the Sea (Abdulhamid Alansary‚ Dept.‚ of English Language and Literature‚ Faculty of Arts‚ Sohag University) ABSTRACT This research paper tries to explain the desire to return to pure nature through the analysis of a work of art ecocritically‚ namely Haifaa Al-Sanoussi’s Departure of the Sea. It also attempts to show how the relationship between man and nature‚ which had been previously harmonized‚ has changed
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Have you ever encountered that a distinct and spectral whisper keeps revolving around you? Actually‚ this plot was presented in a movie called “Field of Dreams” which was filmed in 1989. In the movie‚ such an odd thing happened to a young man‚ Ray. What is more ridiculous is that Ray decided to follow the instructions given by the phantom voice‚ even though he was on the edge of bankruptcy‚ whereas most of us are afraid of pursuing or following our yearning hearts‚ eventually‚ there is no chance
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The purpose of this essay is to analyze the poem of Robert Frost‚ “After Apple Picking” with race and post colonial literary criticism. The subject of racism has been a lively topic for critical debate since approximately the 1950s‚ with critics examining the treatment of various kinds of discrimination based on race‚ religion‚ or gender in literary works‚ both past and present‚ as well as in the attitudes of the writers themselves. In some cases racism is a prominent‚ or even the chief theme‚ while
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the essay "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics"‚ the author‚ J. R. R. Tolkien explains how Beowulf is portrayed as a historical document‚ rather than that of a work of art as he argues. The main argument of his paper is that Beowulf is “poor in criticism” as this would affect the way the reader would interpret the text. Tolkien argues that many of the interpretations are incorrect as they make us analyze the text historically versus analyzing is from an artistic point of view. Tolkien’s essay ultimately
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The Scarlett Letter Criticism Nathanial Hawthorne envisioned The Scarlet Letter as a short story published in a collection‚ but it outgrew that purpose. Most critics accept Hawthorne’s definition of it as a “romance” rather than a novel. The novel begins with an introductory autobiographical essay‚ “The Custom House” where Hawthorne describes working as a custom officer in Salem‚ Massachusetts. He describes coming across documents that provide him with the basis for The Scarlett Letter.
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A Room of One’s Own Summary Virginia Woolf‚ giving a lecture on women and fiction‚ tells her audience she is not sure if the topic should be what women are like; the fiction women write; the fiction written about women; or a combination of the three. Instead‚ she has come up with "one minor point--a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She says she will use a fictional narrator whom she calls Mary Beton as her alter ego to relate how her thoughts on the lecture
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Is New Journalism a literary genre? Analyse with reference to the literary techniques used in two examples of New Journalism. Word Count - 2231 I suppose the most common sense point at which to start is by defining New Journalism‚ or Literary Journalism‚ as Eisenhuth and McDonald (2007‚ p. 38) say it is called at the “upper end of the spectrum.” The Collins Concise Dictionary (1999‚ p. 995) defines New Journalism as “a style of journalism‚ using techniques borrowed from fiction to portray
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