WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATURE? AN OVERVIEW When the English preacher and writer Sidney Smith asked in 1820‚ “In the four quarters of the globe‚ who reads an American book?” little did he suspect that less than two hundred years later the answer in literate quarters would be “just about everyone.” Indeed‚ just a few years after Smith posed his inflammatory question‚ the American writer Samuel Knapp would begin to assemble one of the first histories of American literature as part of a lecture series
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CLASSIFICATIONs OF LITERATURE I. Divisions of Literature Literature Prose Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Dramatic Narrative Lyric Drama Short Story Novel Tale Fable Myth Legends Folktales Essay Biography Autobiography Diary History Chronicle News Anecdote Tragedy Comedy Opera Operetta Ballad Epic Metrical Tale Metrical Romance Ode Sonnet Song Elegy POINT OF COMPARISON | PROSE | POETRY | Form | Paragraph | Verse | Language | Words and rhythms of ordinary and everyday language | Metrical‚
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“Dystopian Literature is not concerned with shaping the future but with teaching us about the problems of the present”. Discuss "Lord of the Flies" and "Animal Farm" in light of this comment. Many critics have argued that several extreme historical circumstances of the 20th century have led to the flourishing of dystopian literature. Dystopias usually extrapolate elements of contemporary society and function as a warning against some modern trend‚ often the threat of oppressive regimes in one
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EXAMPLES OF LITERATURE MAPS Refer to Creswell Figure 2.1 Literature Map - Security Architecture Literature Map Topic Classification Literature citation Project Management Industry Trends Project Management Terminology Keil M.‚ Ra A.‚ Mann J. E. C.‚ Zhang G. P.‚ (2003) Project Management Institute PMBOK (2000) Ross M.‚ (2005) Project Escalation and Abandonment Factors Keil M.‚ Rai A.‚ Mann J. E. C.‚ Zhang G. P‚ (2003) Pan G. S. C.‚ (2005)‚ Leadership and Vision Christenson
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Greek Literature GREEK LITERATURE. The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can be made regarding Greek literature as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries‚ the ancient Greeks created a literature of such brilliance that it has rarely been equaled and never surpassed. In poetry‚ tragedy‚ comedy‚ and history‚ Greek writers created masterpieces that have inspired‚ influenced
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Love in Literature We live in a complex world‚ where love and logic do not always exist cohesively‚ however‚ literature often brings these two elements together. Authors sometimes use the concept of love as a theme for their work‚ logically‚ and methodically using it as a tool in their writing. The different forms of love are often used by authors as a catalyst for positive character development. In this essay‚ works by different authors will be used to demonstrate some of the forms of love used
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Transcendentalism was a literary movement in the first half of the 19th century. The philosophical theory contained such aspects as self-examination‚ the celebration of individualism‚ and the belief that the fundamental truths existed outside of human experience. Fulfillment of this search for knowledge came when one gained an acute awareness of beauty and truth‚ and communicated with nature to find union with the Over-Soul. When this occurred‚ one was cleansed of materialistic aims‚ and was left with
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Literature and Knowledge Author(s): Catherine Wilson Source: Philosophy‚ Vol. 58‚ No. 226 (Oct.‚ 1983)‚ pp. 489-496 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal Institute of Philosophy Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3750861 . Accessed: 17/10/2013 15:08 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Review of Related Literature Reading is an important skill to help people learn from human knowledge and experience. Through reading‚ knowledge has greatly contributed to the growth of mankind. Reading is the fastest and simplest way to raise people’s educational level (Hung & Tzeng‚ 2001). Thus‚ reading also improves the cognitive perspective of a person. No people are more educated unless they read. Reading also enhances not only the brain‚ but the awareness of a person to different words
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Chapter 2 What is Literature and Does it Matter? What is literature? You’d think this would be a central question for literary theory‚ but in fact it has not seemed to matter very much. Why should this be? There appear to be two main reasons. First‚ since theory itself intermingles ideas from philosophy‚ linguistics‚ history‚ political theory‚ and psychoanalysis‚ why should theorists worry about whether the texts they’re reading are literary or not? For students and teachers of literature today there
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