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- 131: Mark Twain
- ... being a great author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death on April 21, 1910, his great literary reputation has further increased. Many writers such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner have declared his work-especially Huckleberry Finn- a major influence on 20th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi river. After the death ...
- 132: Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
- ... generation to Melville's work. Soon critics, students, and the general public were reading his novels and stories, and greeting some of them as masterpieces. In 1927, American novelist William Faulkner declared that Moby Dick was the book he most wished he had written. Knowing the quality of his work, one can not help but feel sympathetic to Melville's passing ...
- 133: The Sun Also Rises 5
- ... 1950), pp. 342-44. Rpt. in Brett Ashley. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: G.K. Hall and Co., 1995. pp.12-13. Gladstein, Mimi Reisel, Hemingway, The Indestructible Woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck. (Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, 1986), pp. 59, 62. Rpt. in Critical Essays on Earnest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises, ed. James Nagel. New York: G.K ...
- 134: The Value Of Literature
- ... awful act on the villagers he still feels sorry for them when they get tarred. Huck comments, "Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."(Twain 225) In William Faulkner's Barn Burning it told of a man named Abner Snopes who burned barns when upset or mad. This was his way of getting back at them. "Barn Burning" has ...
- 135: Female Protagonists
- ... similar aspect of the female protagonists Louise Mallard, Mathilde Loisel, and Emily Grierson. In Kate Chopin's, "The Story of an Hour," Guy DE Maupassant's, "The Necklace," and William Faulkner's, "A Rose for Emily," the female protagonist's have a desire for freedom. The stories are about three women living in patriarchal societies. Each character longs for freedom in ...
- 136: Nuclear Weapons: Destructors or Saviors?
- ... powers convened to adopt a policy of "No-First Strike." This occurrence, while weighting popular opinion on the MAD stance, also exemplifies the words of an American Nobel Laureate, William Faulkner, "I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul ...
- 137: Henry Ford
- ... St. Louis, Missouri 1998), Bibliography: Henry Ford, by Roger Burlingame (New York, Alfred A. Knopf 1966) p 1-57, 118-135, 156-184 The Quest for Social Justice, H.U. Faulkner (New York, 1931), p137 http://www.hfmgv.org Management 3rd edition, Kathryn M. Bartol & David C. Martin (Boston, Massachusetts Burr Ridge, Illinois Dubuque, Iowa Madison, Wisconsin New York, New York ...
- 138: Henry James And William Dean Howells
- ... elements of middle-class American life, impeding acceptance by the general public. James' contribtutions to literature are still felt today, as he influenced such authors as Wharton, Joyce, Woolf and Faulkner. (Matthiessen 19) William Dean Howells, born in 1837, was the son of printer, and, because of this, his early life was devoted to the typecast word. He learned to set ...
- 139: Mark Twain 3
- ... American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day and had a powerful effect on such later American writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, both of whom pointed to Twain as an inspiration for their own writing. In Twain's later years he wrote less, but he became a celebrity, frequently speaking out on ...
- 140: The Glass Meangere
- ... represent a fraction of the number of dissertations, essays, and books written about other important American writers. For example, the MLA database lists 4,019 entries using the descriptor "William Faulkner," and more than 1,089 entries using "Eugene O'Neill."2 Chapter Two: "Promiscuity and Penance: Sexual Outcasts as Martyrs in Suddenly Last Summer, Orpheus Descending, A Streetcar Named Desire ...
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