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    Literary realism is the trend‚ beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors‚ towards depictions of contemporary life and society as it was‚ or is. In the spirit of general "realism‚" Realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and banal activities and experiences‚ instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_realism Realism  Even though there are rumblings

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    stories‚ plays‚ and essays‚ e.g.‚ the collections Wampeters‚ Foma and Granfalloons (1974)‚ The Man without a Country (2005)‚ and the posthumously published Armageddon in Retrospect (2008). Awards and honors: State Author of New York/Edith Wharton Citation of Merit (2001-2003); Purple Heart; American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1970)‚ Humanist of the Year (1992)‚ Asteroid Namesake (asteroid 25399 vonnegut). The Package is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut‚ first published

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    REALISM IN 19th CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION The 19th century is considered to mark the origin of realism as a literary movement in the United States. American writers following the era of change in American life‚ moved steadily from Romanticism towards Realism‚ which was to lead the next step of Naturalism. The process was gradual‚ reflecting the periodic fluctuations in the history of American society. In this process‚ the Civil War provided a dramatic point of cleavage. In 1865 at the end of the

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    built in factories rather than fields. On the backs of icons such as Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller‚ and others of the like‚ power became synonymous with wealth. One’s buying power established his/her position in society. Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth advance the notion that Gilded Age America’s obsession with upward mobility and chasing the American Dream ultimately corrupts

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    The truth that lies behind fantasies The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a book that gave the word "love" many other meanings‚ such as impossible‚ meaningless and incomplete. There were many unbearable obstacles that Countess Ellen Olenska‚ one of the main characters‚ had to face because of love. She was treated badly by many people and always longed for love but never obtained it. With everyone cursing her‚ betraying her and hurting her‚ there was one person who was always there for her. Newland

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    1) A. Mitchell Palmer- Attorney General in 1920s; earned the title of the "fighting Quaker" by his excess of zeal in rounding up suspects of Red Scare; ultimately totaled about six thousand; This drive to root out radicals was redoubled in June 1919‚ when a bomb shattered his home 2) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti- case regarded by liberals as "judicial lynching". Sacco‚ a shoe-factory worker‚ and Vanzetti‚ a fish peddler‚ were convicted in 1921 of the murder of a Massachusetts paymaster

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    Innholdsfortegnelse Part A: Close reading and analysis 3 Sherlock meets Abigail 3 Works cited 6 Part B: Literary criticism 7 Literary criticism 7 Works cited 8 Part C: Form and genre 
 9 Crossing fictional borders 9 Works Cited 11 Part A: Close reading and analysis Sir Arthur Conan Doyle authored some of the earliest detective fiction‚ and we still recognize the formula he and Poe presented in the development of the genre. Use the background you have been given in the genre to consider

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    75-92. Print. Nadkarni‚ Asha. "Reproducing Feminism in Jasmine and ’The Yellow Wallpaper ’." Feminist Studies 38.1 (2012): 218+. Academic OneFile. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. Papke‚ Mary E. Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton. New York: Greenwood P‚ 1995.

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    (entire play) a. You are responsible for character analysis b. Major Themes of the play c. Important quotes d. Biography of the author 2. Stories of Ourselves (the following stories) Nathaniel Hawthorne The Hollow of the Three Hills Edith Wharton The Moving Finger Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) Sredni Vashtar Virginia Woolf The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection Bernard Malamud The Prison J. G. Ballard Billennium Janet Frame

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    Ethan Frome: Prisoner of Sheer Bleakness Ethan Frome‚ the striking‚ disfigured man of Starkfield and main character of the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton‚ serves as an instance where a character has endured a significant event from the past that has affected the character in a negative way. Due to Ethan’s harsh past that led to his repression away from society and internal moral entanglement‚ his activities and values in life were decrepitly modified. In the novel‚ certain personal circumstances

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