Through the literary techniques of personification‚ paradox and imagery of simple experiences or objects‚ Jane Hirshfield manages to simplify the complex emotions and ideas within society by utilizing symbolisms of everyday items and experiences to convey her perceptions about nature and regrets in life as well as analyze the complexity of one’s identity. Perhaps Hirshfield’s Zen Buddhist affiliations contribute to the philosophical tone of her poems in their abstract conceptualization of life experiences
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story that has already been told many times. His argument against original thought is very persuasive‚ especially considering the many ways stories have been logically broken down into a predictable sequence of events. For instance‚ Vladimir Propp (Literary Theory) a Russian Formalist used Formalist theories to determine thirty one plot functions in Russian folk tales. Each folk tale has at least some‚ if not all‚ of these functions‚ typically in the order which he has organized them but occasionally
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April Jean Delos Santos BBF 2-9s 1. What is the significance of studying the different worlds as experienced by poets‚ dramatist‚ essayist‚ storytellers‚ playwrights‚ and writers? Studying Literature can be an eye-opening experience. Reading some great works of World Literature helps us understand things even ourselves. Because by reading we are exposing ourselves to new ideas‚ we begin to have better judgment on things and we benefit from other’s point
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CHAPTER – I INTRODUCTION 1.1. Origin and Development of American Literature A fundamental difference subsists between American literature and proximately all the other major literary traditions of the world: it is essentially a modern‚ recent and international literature. The American continent possessed major pre-Columbian civilizations‚ with a deep heritage of culture‚ mythology‚ ritual‚ chant and poetry. Many recent American writers‚ especially recently‚ have looked to these sources as something
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«The Unvexed Isles». It is 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
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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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The word ‘Hypothesis is derived from a Greek word‚ which means ‘to suppose’. It is usually considered as the principal instrument in research. For a researcher it is a formal question that he or she intends to resolve. In this way a hypothesis may be defined as a proposition or a supposition. The main function of hypothesis is to guide the collection and processing of materials and direct the research. Hypothesis is a tentative conclusion. It is facts based theory. A research scholar will analyze
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils"[2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802‚ in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth’s own account)‚[3] it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes‚ and a revised versionwas published in 1815.[4] It is written in six-line stanzas with an ababcc rhyme scheme‚ like the Venus
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Dickinson found a way within her writing to not present herself as a feminine voice. One quote of the article I thoroughly enjoyed was Dickinson writing suggests “the strengths of major women writers lies in the ability of each to create her own‚ unique‚ literary type of feminine rhetoric”. Also within the article it is brought up that Dickinson shows her modernity by not accepting what society said she was to be. This writing will help with her reflection of women in her poetry and how she used her own way
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“identity crisis” with which studies and departments defining themselves as “comparative” were consistently confronted ever since the term was coined. The paper also offers an overview of the elements that usually confer a “comparative” quality to a literary study‚ such as interdisciplinarity and multiculturalism‚ together with a few relevant definitions describing the commonly accepted meaning of the term at a particular point in time. Further it has a sketch of the current status of the concept and
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