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- 491: Buddhism And The Poetry Of Jac
- ... a prosperous post world war II America. He was in many ways a very patriotic person who had no problem making known his love for his country , particularly within his literature. It was, quite literally, America that he was in love with. Taking cues from writers such as Whitman, he embraced the American landscape as a field for spiritual cultivation. Kerouac was indeed a writer with spiritual preoccupations. He saw himself as partaking in a lifelong journey through the America that was waiting ... the country in freight cars and the backs of pick-up trucks, saw himself as a modern day sage or bodhisatva, discovering the essence of the void and using his literature as a record of these discoveries. His body of work is a wonderful example of integrating Buddhism into the daily life and thought of a man living in a ...
- 492: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... you take? Enduring the death of loved ones, facing critical abuse and public denunciation as an immoralist, Kate Chopin is considered among the most important women in the nineteenth-century American fiction. (Scarsella) Katherine (Chopin) O'Flaherty was born of Irish-French descendants. There is some controversy over the actual date of her birth. Kate stated her day of birth as ... mother, Eliza, dealt with death of her husband by focusing on religion. She enrolled Kate in the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart. It is here that Kate discovers literature and the joys of reading (Hoffman). Her great-grandmother taught her to speak French and play the piano. She also delighted Kate with stories that made a vial impression on ... August 20, 1904. She was remembered only as one of the southern local colorists of the 1890s until "The Awakening "was rediscovered in the 1970s as an early masterpiece of American realism and a superb rendering of female experience. KATE CHOPIN "Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions ...
- 493: Interpreting Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever"
- ... eminence of the fiction of Edith Wharton attests to her placement into such a category of authors: it is a recognition of her propensity to create poignant and, indeed, successful literature. The brevity of her "Roman Fever" allows for a brilliant display of this talent in it we find many of her highly celebrated qualities in the space of just a ... societal pressures. Grace, with her knitting needles and quiet demeanor, establishes the introvert as the more radical character. "Roman Fever," then, is a work deserving of its place among acclaimed literature. Its brevity, rather than stifling artistry, serves instead to showcase the skill of an adept author. It is a multifaceted story and will doubtless continue to be enjoyed by future generations. Works Cited Wharton, Edith. "Roman Fever." 1936. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter, et al. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. Lexington: Heath, 1994. 1116-1125.
- 494: Leda And The Swan
- ... hearted Leda had given protection to the swan, he had his way with her (346). Leda is innocent and unassuming. Her attacker disguises himself and deceptively targets her. In World Literature Criticism, John Lucas says, Yeats is writing here about the violence of entering history, and about how all, even the most innocent, are caught up in it (4110). Leda is ... Yeats. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1983. Blackmur, R.P. Yeats. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1989. 397. Hathorn, Richmond Y. Greek Mythology. Lebanon: The American University of Beirut, 1977. Johnsen, William. Yeats and Postmodernism. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1991. Kuehn, Robert E. Yeats. Contemporary Literature Criticism. Ed. Dedria Bryfronski. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1979. 284. Lucas, John. Yeats. World Literature Criticism. Ed. James P. Draper. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1992. 4110. Magill, Frank N. ed. Critical ...
- 495: John Updikess Pigeon Feather
- ... ship crossing of the Atlantic, there was "blackjack with the Rhodes Scholars and deck tennis with the Fulbrights." Yet he is not a pennon bearer for a new generation of American writers. The sense you got when you first read F. Scott Fitzgerald or Ernest Hemingway or William Faulkner that -- like it or not -- American literature was off in new directions, shattering matrixes of the past, does not rise from Mr. Updike's pages. Rather, he has the calm assurance of a man at work ...
- 496: Pigeon Feather
- ... ship crossing of the Atlantic, there was "blackjack with the Rhodes Scholars and deck tennis with the Fulbrights." Yet he is not a pennon bearer for a new generation of American writers. The sense you got when you first read F. Scott Fitzgerald or Ernest Hemingway or William Faulkner that -- like it or not -- American literature was off in new directions, shattering matrixes of the past, does not rise from Mr. Updike's pages. Rather, he has the calm assurance of a man at work ...
- 497: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... poor family in Massachusetts, Thoreau was the only child in his family to attend college. He graduated from Harvard in 1837 and became interested in natural history, religion, and world literature. Thoreau taught briefly but was dismissed when it became known that he opposed corporal punishment. He and his brother founded their own school based on transcendentalist principles, but he still ... this policy came from the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, whose influence on Gandhi was profound. Gandhi also acknowledged his debt to the teachings of Christ and to the 19th-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, especially to Thoreau's famous essay “Civil Disobedience.” (Encarta) Gandhi thought the terms passive resistance and civil disobedience insufficient for his purpose, so he coined another ... the greatest sages.” (Encarta) Gandhi, a man who would influence history, was very much influenced by the writings of Henry David Thoreau. In 1942 when Gandhi wrote his “Appeal to American Friends,” he said; “You have given me a teacher in Thoreau, who furnished me though his essay on the Duty of Civil Disobedience scientific confirmation of what I was ...
- 498: Leda And The Swan
- ... hearted Leda had given protection to the swan, he had his way with her" (346). Leda is innocent and unassuming. Her attacker disguises himself and deceptively targets her. In World Literature Criticism, John Lucas says, "Yeats is writing here about the violence of entering history, and about how all, even the most innocent, are caught up in it" (4110). Leda is ... Yeats. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1983. Blackmur, R.P. "Yeats." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Dennis Poupard. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1989. 397. Hathorn, Richmond Y. Greek Mythology. Lebanon: The American University of Beirut, 1977. Johnsen, William. Yeats and Postmodernism. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1991. Kuehn, Robert E. "Yeats." Contemporary Literature Criticism. Ed. Dedria Bryfronski. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1979. 284. Lucas, John. "Yeats." World Literature Criticism. Ed. James P. Draper. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1992. 4110. Magill, Frank N. ed. Critical ...
- 499: Jack Kerouac
- ... a prosperous post world war II America. He was in many ways a very patriotic person who had no problem making known his love for his country , particularly within his literature. It was, quite literally, America that he was in love with. Taking cues from writers such as Whitman, he embraced the American landscape as a field for spiritual cultivation. Kerouac was indeed a writer with spiritual preoccupations. He saw himself as partaking in a lifelong journey through the America that was waiting ... the country in freight cars and the backs of pick-up trucks, saw himself as a modern day sage or bodhisatva, discovering the essence of "the void" and using his literature as a record of these discoveries. His body of work is a wonderful example of integrating Buddhism into the daily life and thought of a man living in a ...
- 500: Howl & Kaddish By Allen Ginsberg
- ... the majority of his works being somewhat biographical. It is said that Allen Ginsberg was ahead of his time, but in fact he was just riding the wave of a literature revolution. The decade of the 1950’s was a time of change. America and the world was experiencing a transition from innocence to a more knowledgeable society. Revolutions in all ... Francisco 1961 Hyde, Lewis (Editor) On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg The University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor, MI 1984 Merill, Thomas. Allen Ginsberg Twayne Publishers Boston 1988 Stephanchev, Stephen. American Poetry Since 1945 Harper and Row Publishers New York 1965 Turco, Lewis. Visions and Revisions of American Poetry The University of Arkansas Press Fayetteville, AK 1986 Footnotes 1) Eberhart, Richard "West Coast Rhythms" from On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg 2) Rexroth, Kenneth "San Francisco Letter" ...
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