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    Braid‚ Christina Perez. "Kirsten Olsen. Understanding Lord of the Flies: A Student Casebook to Issues‚ Sources‚ and Historical Documents." Utopian Studies‚ no. 1‚ 2002‚ p. 236. EBSCOhost‚ lrcproxy.iccms.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsglr&AN=edsgcl.91397759&site=eds-live. Accessed 17 March 2017. This is an article wrote by Christina Braid‚ an independent scholar in Ontario‚ Canada‚ as an explanation of Lord of the Flies’ use of contextual images and supplemental

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    Biblical Narrative

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    Leo Staley Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter A Critical Book Review The Art of Biblical Narrative‚ by Robert Alter‚ presents us with an introduction to a literary approach to the Bible. Specifically‚ he treats the prose of the Bible as highly sophisticated fictional narrative for the purposes of literary and analysis‚ countering notions that the often bewildering features encountered in it are a result of primitive writing technique or confused synthesis of varied sources. After opening

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    The Motive for Metaphor

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    Northrop Frye English language is used everywhere all over the world. It is a common language and one of the most spoken languages anywhere. Most of humanity reads books or articles on their free time and it is not a surprise that English speaking nations as well as others register books as well. The difference although‚ is that English speaking literature had the most significantly complex and celebrated poets‚ which is why people around the world‚ English speaking or not push to understand

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    Critical Analysis of Roland Barthes “The Death of the Author”     Roland Barthes says in his essay The Death of the Author‚ “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.” For the most part I agree with this statement. There can be no real level of independent thinking achieved by the reader if their thoughts are dictated by the Author’s opinions and biases. For this reason there needs to be a distance between the Author and those who read the work.     Barthes makes two

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    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION: Utrecht University The bylaws of the American Comparative Literature Association stipulate the writ-ing every ten years of "a report on the state of the discipline." The present collection Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization represents the latest in the series and is a follow up to Charles Bernheimer’s Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism (1994). The structural similarities between the two titles‚ with their repetition

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    Is the Author Really Dead?

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    Is the author really dead? “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.” – Roland Barthes Must the author be dead to make way for the birth of the reader? In his essay “The Death of the Author‚” Roland Barthes asserts that the author is dead because he/she is no longer a part of the deep structure in a particular text. To him‚ the author does not create meaning in the text: one cannot explain a text by knowing about the person who wrote

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    English 102-18 Literary Analysis 22 October‚ 2014 A Mother’s Love Flannery O’Connor was an author born in the south in 1925. She was an author who “wrote from her experiences as a Roman Catholic raised in the Protestant South” (Flannery O’Connor). She is the author of the story “Good Country People”‚ published in 1955. O’Connor tells the story of a young girl named Hulga “Joy” Hopewell who is a well-educated girl‚ with a degree in philosophy‚ but is a very shy person and keeps to herself. Hulga is

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    Criticism Of Chick-Fil-A

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    their founder’s‚ Truett Cathy‚ morals. Christianity was a key principal in Cathy’s idea of his ideal business. There are tons of businesses today who do not mix church and state‚ but Cathy had a different idea in mind. Although Chick-fil-A receives criticism for the morals they uphold‚ they have taken over America. According to Business Insider‚ Chick-fil-A has dominated America as over the majority of state’s favorite restaurant. As a Christian myself‚ I enjoy the atmosphere Chick-fil-A creates for

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    SGRE3073 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE A) Guides: 1. The assignment should be approximately 5-10 pages.  2. Double spacing 3. Times New Roman 4. Font Size 12 5. Referencing: APA 6. Cover page: Plain White Writing Standards: Students are expected to demonstrate writing skills in describing‚ analyzing and evaluating ideas and experiences. Written material must follow specific standards regarding citations of authors’ work within the text and references at the end of the paper. Grades will be assigned

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    Literature has long been difficult to understand‚ an author’s use of rhetoric can be analyzed to have many different significances as well as meanings. Poetry is particularly difficult to analyze‚ thus many writers and critics have created their own arguments for the meaning of different pieces. As literary critics and scholars ourselves‚ we in this English 100W class must determine what arguments we find valid‚ and which arguments give us deeper insight on pieces that we read and study. One

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