specialize in a particular branch of literature like dramas or novels or short stories or essays. Some write in a humorous vein‚ others are serious in their approach. They appeal to different varieties of readers according to their tastes. My favourite author is Charles Dickens Charles Dickens is an English writer. He lived in England in Victorian age. He is a famous novelist of English language. Charles Dickens has an impressive list of novels to his credit. These novels are ‘Pickwick Papers’‚ ‘A Tale
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Anne Sexton’s poem titled “Her Kind” is a popular poem filled with powerful imagery‚ diction‚ and syntax. Her particular use of these elements in different ways contributes to the robotic and non-human tone of the poem. Her use of syntax in the poem is done in a very clever manner. The lines of the poem are short and almost all contain commas. These commas are a part of the syntax because they contribute to the sentence structure. They split up each line into two halves‚ and it almost
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Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is that the Frank family‚ the Van Daan family and Mr. Dussel are hiding in the Secret Annex during the Holocaust and are constantly in fear of being caught and sent to a concentration camp. This conflict is man vs society and is an external conflict because during the Holocaust‚ the malevolent society led people to believe that Jews were evil‚ although‚ the millions of the Jews that were killed during the Holocaust were innocent- including Anne and most of the others
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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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The Diary of Anne Frank The Diary of Anne Frank‚ a play written by Franes Goodrich and Albert Hackett in the play they decribe the life of a young Jewish girl‚ named Anne Frank. Anne and her family were forced into hiding because Hitler’s discrimination against the Jews. The hiding place is small attic of a office owned by Miep Gies and Mr. Kraler in Amsterdam. The people hiding in the attic commonly known as the secret Annexe. The secret Annexe consists of Mr. and Mrs. Frank‚ Anne Frank‚ Margot
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Overview: American director Anne Bogart‚ born 1951‚ was influenced at an early age (early teens) by the power of theatre‚ which inevitably shaped her eventual convictions in the craft and led to her successes as a director and theatre-maker. Throughout her career‚ Bogart staged an eclectic mixture of theatre‚ including yet not limited to contemporary and modern plays‚ musicals‚ opera‚ as well as dance-theatre pieces and many forms of experimental/avant-garde theatre. Bogart was passionate about making
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“What is an Author?” Summary Foucault begins his essay by introducing the essence of an author as an individualization of many different fields including knowledge‚ sciences‚ literature‚ etc. Without addressing anything directly‚ he focuses right on the relationship between an author and a text‚ regarding that the text points toward the author as a figure who has created and is on the exterior of the text. Foucault begins his thesis with a quote by Beckett to summarize the theme of his essay
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com/quotes/quotes/s/simonmainw494031.html#4wh4YPULc2ItXlSB.99 Biography Author Profession: Businessman Born: 1967 If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia‚ you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that’s meaningful. Matt Mullenweg Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mattmullen652982.html#Y619UOvOcKfS4xFW.99 Biography Author Profession: Businessman Nationality: American Born: January 11‚ 1984
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excellent writer and her novels are well anticipated for a good reason. Her first book‚ Stasiland‚ was translated into 16 different languages and won the Samuel Johnson Prize‚ which is a top level award in Britain. The novel was a personal inspection of East Germany’s shady secret service and its faith in Germany‚ and is an excellent novel that people everywhere should read even in Professor Gutowsky’s class. Judging from Anna Funder’s life it seemed that she would not write books about Germany‚ All
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Ms. D’Amore English Honors 11 10 October 2012 Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter is one of the most celebrated authors in American Literature‚ she is mostly known for her collection of short stories‚ often about themes regarding justice‚ betrayal‚ and the unforgiving nature of the human race. Throughout her life the many things that influenced her views and morals also helped shape the way she writes and the messages in her stories. Porter experienced a variety of cultures‚ from the
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