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- 211: Ray Bradbury: Literary Influences
- ... writers. This is the stuff you go to, if you want to write original weird stories. We're told all this stuff, you know, to go to the literature of Poe, to go to Hawthorne. This is all nonsense. These people dug their own symbols, their own needs, and their own terrors out of themselves, and got it on paper. They ...
- 212: Why Mark Twain is the Greatest American Author of All Time
- ... time. As I was reading the book Huck Finn I started to agree more with what Mencken had to say "Put him beside Emerson, or Whitman, or Hawthorne, or even Poe; he was palpably the superior of all of them". I could really relate to lots of the ideas and emotions that sprang into Tom and Huck's heads at the ...
- 213: Turn Of The Screw- Henry James
- ... of the novel. The Turn of the Screw is a gothic thriller, which has inspired different levels of interpretation. It would be interesting to read various works by Edgar Allan Poe as well as Mary Shelly s Frankenstein, and compare the authors techniques, style, and possible social and psychological themes. The most memorable part of the story was the conversation between ...
- 214: James Fenimore Cooper and His Writings
- ... the quintessential representative of American romanticism. America produced many renown authors during the age of American romanticism. During this time, writers, such as: Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allen Poe, and James Fenimore Cooper emerged. Romantic writers emphasized intuition, an inner perception of truth that is independent of reason. To discover this truth, Emerson wrote in The American Scholar (1837 ...
- 215: Stephen Vincent Benet
- ... Benet 34). Benet's themes ranged from ideological concerns in "Fantasies and Prophesies" to human reality in "The Devil and Daniel Webster" or tragicomic ironies in "A Story By Angela Poe" (Roache 102: 14). Poetry was a completely other thing. Benet's style consisted of local humor and short phrases such as in "The Mountain Whippoorwill" (Griffith 13). In John Brown ...
- 216: The Work of Stephen King
- ... The Dead Zone and Cujo the style is psychological rather than the supernatural mode. King's work is a hybridization of the traditional horror tale, as written by Edgar Allan Poe. A story that offers the chills has become King's trademark. By introducing believable middle and lower class Americans into situations that defy conventional logic King subjects the reader to ...
- 217: Bram Stoker
- ... published in June 1897. Reviews on "Dracula" were mixed, and the book never yielded much money for Stoker. In a favorable review the "Daily Mail" compared it with "Frankenstein" and Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." "The Bookman" found it likeable in spots but commented that the "descriptions were hideous and repulsive." (Leatherdale, p.68) For the next ...
- 218: Writing Well Chapter 1 Respons
- ... kind of emotion and utterly fails. Assuming that these three paragraphs could be considered a short story (although it is not fictional), the story then does not meet Edgar Allen Poe s definition of the purpose of a short story: to elicit a single emotional response. Then again, it may elicit a single emotional response: boredom. Fortunately, Chan manages to turn ...
- 219: Romanticism
- ... imagination as the means for tapping into the universal truth and finding knowledge. Many objects of the physical world became symbols of spiritual or intellectual truth. For example, Edgar Allen Poe pursued with great intensity the Gothic mood. He made material data of his stories symbolic representations of intense and anguished states of mind. This was a method that he carried ...
- 220: The Masque Of The Red Death By
- Edgar Allen Poe's “The Masque of the Red Death” is an elaborate allegory that combines objects in the story with visual descriptions to give focus to the reader's imagination. In the ...
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