Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (French pronunciation: [gi d(ə) mo.pa.ˈsɑ̃] ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer‚ considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form’s finest exponents. A protégé of Flaubert‚ Maupassant’s stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient‚ effortless dénouements. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent
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It was said by more than one author that the ‘golden age’ of the short story was the 1920s‚ and that although varied publications remain (The New Yorker‚ Myslexia‚ The Woman’s Weekly)‚ there is little opportunity in the modern age for the short story writer. Was this‚ as Kurt Vonnegut argued the result of television? Vonnegut claimed: When I started out it was possible to make a living as a freelance writer of fiction…because it was still the golden age of magazines‚ and it looked as though
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Sylvia Plath 1-Poppies in October The poem is a remarkable play of life and death‚ said and unsaid‚ hope and hopelessness. The poem is about an unusual time and its impact on the poetess‚ wherein she tells her agony and pain through the metaphor of nature. The poem brings before us a personal touch of the poetess’ life. October is the beginning of winter when flowers withered away and trees are leafless. It is the coming up of a long and cold winter and is not a season of blooming and blossoming
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Alice Walker English Comp 2 Diane Rodriguez 4/19/2013 Alice Walker Trough past and modern times many Individuals have tried to find the strength and courage to speak about taboo subjects‚ like the double standard of women sexuality. Many have fail and succeed with their attempt‚ all of the coming from differ backgrounds and social standards and others were to sacred to even try. Individuals have been able to speak about
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Willa Cather’s Characterization Technique in Neighbor Rosicky " Neighbor Rosicky "‚ written in 1928 and collected in the volume Obscure Destinies in 1932‚ is generally considered one of Willa Cather’s most successful short stories. It is a character study of Anton Rosicky‚ a man who‚ facing the approach of death‚ reflects on the meaning and value of his life. In tracing Rosicky’s journey from Bohemia to Nebraska‚Cather explores the intimate relationship between people and the paces
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Lecture I The literature of England (America) Plan: I Short survey to the literature of England (America) II Directions of the literature: Romanticism. Realism. Naturalism. III Romanticism. Romanticism in literature. Romanticism and society. IV The theory of naturalism. Naturalism in fiction. V Realism.Realism in fiction. American and English literature begins with the orally transmitted myths‚ legends‚ tales and lyrics (always songs) of
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physically different from those of ordinary people. At the beginning of the century an American scientist called E A Spitzka produced a list of the weights of the brains of important‚ well-known men. The heaviest brain on the list was that of Turgenev‚ the Russian novelist‚ at 2000g. However‚ the brain of another great genius‚ Walt Whitman‚ weighed only 1282g. There are no significant differences between the intelligence levels of males and females. However‚ girls under seven score a little
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101 Great Books 101 Great Books Recommended Reading for High School Students and Readers of all Ages (Provided by collegeboard.com) **Denotes titles typically included in the CdS Curriculum Author | Title | Author | Title | ------- | **Beowulf | Ford‚ Ford Madox | The Good Soldier | Achebe‚ Chinua | Things Fall Apart | Goethe‚ Johann Wolfgan von | Faust | Agee‚ James | A Death in the Family | Golding‚ William | Lord of the Flies | Austen‚ Jane | Pride and Prejudice | Hardy‚ Thomas |
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Crime and Punishment was the second of Fyodor Dostoevsky ’s most important‚ mature fictional works. It was first published in the conservative journal The Russian Messenger‚ appearing in twelve monthly installments in 1866. Dostoevsky left three full notebooks of materials pertinent to Crime and Punishment. These have been published under the title The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment‚ edited and translated by Edward Wasiolek. Dostoevsky began work on this novel in the summer of 1865. He originally
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The Literary Criticism of D. H. Lawrence Author(s): René Wellek Source: The Sewanee Review‚ Vol. 91‚ No. 4 (Fall‚ 1983)‚ pp. 598-613 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27544211 . Accessed: 28/12/2010 10:04 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part‚ that unless you have
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