In his novel Annihilation‚ Jeff Vandermeer uses a number of Post-Modernistic troupes‚ including metafiction. Vandermeer’s use of metafiction can best be highlighted by the passage in which the narrator directly addresses the reader after she discovers the pile of journals: “Can you really imagine what it was like in those first moments‚ peering down into that dark space‚ and seeing that? Perhaps you can. Perhaps you’re staring at it now” (Vandermeer 106). By directly addressing the words on the page
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Christine De Pisan was “born in Venice‚ Italy‚ in 1364‚ Christine de Pisan is considered a pioneering feminist writer and one of the[most famous female] writers of Medieval times.” Christine de Pisan’s father helped her at the age of 13 to learn about subjects such as Greek and Latin‚ also becoming very strongly minded in great literature. “Around the age of 15‚ [Christine]de Pasin married Etienne du Castel‚ a member of the French Court.” Etienne supported Christin de Pasin through her writing
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‘The Applicant’ places both men and women as victims in a society which disallows them any sense of free-will.’ To what extent to you agree with this view? ‘The Applicant’ by Sylvia Plath is a poem centred on the idea that relationships between humans are only a regime to fill a physical need‚ and marriage is the only way to be free of a crippling lifestyle‚ and women are seen as being a set of appendages and functions‚ men as the consumer and worker‚ key to the success of the Marxist viewpoints
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“I am vertical‚” begins Sylvia Plath‚ before she pivots and reveals her true feelings with the first line: “But I would rather be horizontal” (1). In her March 1961 poem “I am Vertical‚” Sylvia Plath sets up her own coordinate plane consisting of the vertical axis and the horizontal axis. The vertical axis stands for all things human‚ and in the eyes of Plath‚ the plight of her own humanity. The horizontal axis represents the plane of the natural world‚ and later‚ comes with the darker implication
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deep psychological traumas‚ which is present in Plath’s “Daddy”. Despite the complexity of hatred‚ some poets have managed to put pen to paper and come up with beautiful poems that effectively recreate the feeling of hatred in all their readers. Sylvia Plath did not live a happy life. She mentions in her poem “Daddy” that she was ten years old when they buried her father and “at twenty I tried to die/ And get back‚ back‚ back to you” [Plath 954 lines 58-59]. She lived most of her adult life dealing
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Stephen King is perhaps the most widely known American writer of his generation‚ yet his distinctions include publishing as two authors at once: Beginning in 1966‚ he wrote novels that were published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. When twelve‚ he began submitting stories for sale. At first ignored and then scorned by mainstream critics‚ by the late 1980’s his novels were reviewed regularly in The New York Times Book Review‚ with increasing favor. Beginning in 1987‚ most of his novels were main
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Jeff Jordan has made two theories revolving rights of same-sex marriage. They are called the parity and difference thesis. The parity thesis supports same-sex marriages‚ and the difference thesis opposes it. He has made assumptions that makes him believe it is acceptable to discriminate against homosexuals because of their sexuality. In means of the parity thesis‚ we should only discriminate homosexual behavior if it is done in public. His entire focus on the claim that homosexual behavior is only
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I’ve just finished reading Jeff Nitzkin’s new book Toil...ing. Instead of reading it in one go like I prefer to read a book for review‚ life had me put it down and pick it up several times over the course of the month. It just so happens that the book is designed to be digested in such a way. The title is a contraction of "toilet" and "reading"‚ referring to snippets of text short enough to read during a bathroom visit or three. It is a compilation of essays ranging from 1 1/2 to 5 pages long. Most
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Jeff Skilling was the CEO of Enron Corporation in 2001 and was convicted of multiple federal felony charges relating to Enron’s financial collapse. Skilling was a consultant for McKinsey and Company and worked with Enron in 1987‚ he helped create a forward market for the in natural gas. Skilling impressed Kenneth Lay and was hired by Enron in 1990 as chairman and chief executive officer of Enron Finance Corp. In 1991 he became the chairman of the Enron Gas Services Co.‚ which was the result of
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When conducting an interview for the American Film Institute‚ actor Jeff Bridges‚ discussing 1941’s Citizen Kane‚ said its director was "twenty-five years old‚ and he didn’t know what he couldn’t do...and Greg Toland gave him all the confidence in the world (2011‚ 0:28 sec.). Bridges was of course talking about the late‚ great Orson Welles. But who was Greg Toland? Well known in Hollywood at the time‚ Toland was a longtime cinematographer who had not only won an Academy Award for 1939’s Wuthering
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