Explore how satire effects the readers attitude toward the content of Alexander Pope’s‚ ‘Rape of the lock’‚ Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s travels’ and George Orwell’s ‘1984’. Satire is defined as a literary genre or form used to ridicule‚ tease‚ torment and ‘poke fun at’‚ satire can employ irony and burlesque as methods of playfully making fun of a subject while at the same time making an extremely valid and thought provoking point which excites and stimulates the reader with its intellectual wit
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John Williams: The American Composer In American Culture‚ myriads of art forms have been created. There are the photographers‚ who capture beautiful moments with the click of a camera and touches of computer editing. Next are the sculptors‚ carefully depicting real life or imaginative works with soft clay molded into a thousand different shapes. Writers use language to leave images in our heads and create stories in our minds. Dancers are their own artwork‚ illustrating artistic
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AMERICAN LITERATURE REQUIRED TEXTS: Native American Literature: Zitkala-Ša: ’Why I am Pagan?’ Joe Harjo‚ poetry Sherman Alexie: ’Class’ Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain Puritans: J. Smith‚ A Description of New England‚ A True Relation of... Virginia‚ handouts W. Bradford: Of Plimouth Plantation‚ handouts A. Bradstreet‚ poetry Awakening: J. Edwards ’Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’‚ ’Freedom of the Will’‚ ’The Nature of True Virtue’ B. Franklin: The Autobiography‚ handouts
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Throughout American literature‚ many writers have used the subject of horror and violence within the many styles of writing during this time. The topics of Horror and Violence have been seen during slavery where it was expressed through story and autobiography about the brutal punishments of slave ship‚ kidnapping and beatings from the slave owners to slaves. We have also seen the use of Horror and Violence in more storytelling styles of writing where the writer writes about unrealistic topics to
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AN INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE Native American literatures embrace the memories of creation stories‚ the tragic wisdom of native ceremonies‚ trickster narratives‚ and the outcome of chance and other occurrences in the most diverse cultures in the world. These distinctive literatures‚ eminent in both oral performances and in the imagination of written narratives‚ cannot be discovered in reductive social science translations or altogether understood in the historical constructions of
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The depiction of African Americans in literature‚ television‚ films and the theatre have followed the same archetypes for more than a century and a half. On ABC’s hit show Scandal‚ Kerry Washington plays the role of Olivia Pope‚ a strong headed‚ independent African American woman in a love triangle with two white men‚ one of whom is the married President of the United States. In the film realm‚ Tyler Perry acts out the role of Mabel “Madea” Simmons‚ a comical and sassy older woman who is often aggressive
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THEME OF ISOLATION IN AMERICAN LITERATURE--COLLECTED ESSAYS AND NOTES ; TONI MORRISON Toni Morrison and bell hooks Represent Blacks in American Literature Two widely known and influential authors‚ bell hooks and Toni Morrison‚ share similar beliefs and themes with regards to the black community. One theme in particular that the two writers emphasize is the representation of blacks in American literature today. hooks feels that African Americans are misrepresented‚ where Morrison believes
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Symbolism in American Literature All through American Literature‚ symbolism can be found littered on many pages. In some of our most studied pieces of literature‚ one can see the underlying meanings to a novel just by dissecting the the item or character that symbolizes something. Whether it symbolizes an event in history‚ a legend‚ or a belief‚ one can use symbolism to help convey a thought into the reader’s mind. American Literature is especially prone to symbolism as authors tend to create events
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Colonial literature From the very moment when Europeans encountered the New World‚ early explorers and conquistadores produced written accounts and crónicas of their experience‚ such as Columbus’s letters or Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s description of the conquest of Mexico. At times‚ colonial practices stirred a lively debate about the ethics of colonization and the status of the indigenous peoples‚ as reflected for instance in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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The setting of a piece of literature gives the reader a proper understanding of the roots of a story. The setting is an especially important in African American literature‚ because it shows readers many of the conditions African Americans had to face‚ unlike caucasians. Works such as Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson‚ “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston‚ and “Equal Opportunity” by Walter Mosey‚ show different settings‚ which allows for different points of view on how the
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