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- 191: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... at University College (“Douglas Gresham,” About C.S. Lewis. Online.). He began his teaching at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1925, after many delays, ultimately being elected Fellow of Language and Literature for 29 years (Kilby 270). During this time in 1929, his father died in Belfast and Lewis became a theist, one who believes there is a God, but did not ... of Love, and A Study in Medieval Tradition, made Lewis famous when it was published in 1936. The Allegory of Love was set as the standard for work on medieval literature and the tradition of courtly love (C.S. Lewis 305). In 1939, he published The Personal Heresy and Rehabilitations, "a work whose title characterized much of Lewis's work, as ... Lewis famous with its series of collected lectures dealing with John Milton's work Paradise Lost. In 1948, he published his Arthurian Torso, a criticism of the Arthurian Legends. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century is a standard reference today even though it was published in 1954. In 1960, Studies in Words takes several English words (and often their counterparts ...
- 192: Youth And Poetry
- ... institutions have introduced and taught us poetry, but still we do not grasp the quality and meaning of having poetry in our lives. With poetry comes imagination, but today s literature does not promote of the exercising of our imagination. In the past, poetry affected young people even if it was to a small or large degree. It was always present ... of imagination or creative thought. We were trained and conditioned in a way where we need not use our creativity to produce a piece of work. Today, instead of reading literature, we are fulfilled by watching movies in theatres. The movies are made in a way that we do not need to use our imagination. Even today s literature is extensively descriptive to the point where it leaves nothing to the imagination because everything is laid out for us. We are told what colour hair, height, frame size, ...
- 193: Utopia 2
- ... inevitible for people to create a better system for people to live together as a result of the stupidities, corruptions, and inequities of human nature. In the "Golden Age" of literature, the idea was a yearning for a kind of life which the ancients imagined was free from the stresses of their more competitive, more commercial civilization. We see many writers ... all abundance, To feed my innocent people. I would with such perfection govern, sir, To excel the golden age.(Act II, Scene I) Even if we take the term utopian literature in the sense of a detailed description of a nation or a commonwealth ordered according to a system which the author proposes a better way of life than any known to exist, the history is still extensive. This all could be formed if the present society could be cancelled and people could start over. Although many great works of literature were produced after Thomas More discovered utopia, there were also writers who developed anti-utopias. Anti-utopias or distopias are a group of works commonly associated with the utopian ...
- 194: Mark Twain
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens ... weeks writing his second book, The Innocents Abroad. Young novelist and editor William Deam Howells said the book contained an abundance of “pure human nature, such as rarely gets into literature...”(qtd. in Lyttle 110). Following the birth of their first child, Langdon Clemens in 1870, Twain set out to write Roughing It, a story recounting his early adventures as a ... Age was an immediate hit with the public and sold out three printings in the first month. Twain soon wrote perhaps the two most famous and influential stories in American Literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Howells would call Tom Sawyer “the best story I ever read. It will be an immense success...” ( ...
- 195: Henry David Thoreau
- ... and his writing was a key to his excellence in writing. Henry David Thoreau also felt that individualism was a great necessity to his writing style. In his piece of literature titled "Civil Disobedience", he expressed his belief in the power and the obligation of the individual to determine right from wrong, independent of the dictates of society. Thoreau's friends ... for two years, in seclusion. His nearest neighbor was at least a mile away. While he was living independently in the woods, he thought of many new ideas for his literature. Thoreau even tried to encourage others to assert their individuality, each in his or her own way. He also believed that independent, well-considered actions arose naturally from a questing ... that other is ready,"(Walden, pg.72) Many of Thoreau's ideas of individualism can be found as major statements in his writing. Thoreau came to much of his great literature due to the amount of experiences he had throughout his life. His major experience was living at Walden Pond for two years and learning about his own life and ...
- 196: Censorship
- ... But it is rather vague. It doesn't differentiate between "ordinary obscenity" and "hard-core pornography." The first denoting the ordinary run of "girlie magazines and the second denoting pictures , literature and so on that deal with rape, sadism, masochism, bestiality, necrophilia and other perversions. People tend to object far more to "hard- core pornography." Another distinction unfortunately overlooked by our criminal law is the distinction between isolated instances of obscenity and the products of vast commercial enterprise. There has been an increasing trend towards children's literature that reflects a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these ... sources, from television and other forms of media, their environment at home and school, their personality and their background. Why they read does not necessarily mean that they will follow. Literature is a valued source of knowledge for these children, and should not be held back. So rather than applying full censorship, it should be made an age-related censorship. ...
- 197: Chaucerian Moral and Social Commentary in the Canterbury Tales
- ... who are naive or foolish enough to trust their lives to the fates find their strings pulled by their adversaries. Chaucer looked at the individual in his setting. Chaucer’s literature is diverse and satirical. His description of life is often influenced by his intimacy with the aristocracy, yet he still regards the common classes as a practical necessity. Chaucer is greatly known for his paradoxical illustrations, painting the differences between the ideal individual and the reality of the actual human being. Chaucerian literature is characterized by emphasis on the individual. Through colorful and shrewd description Chaucer paints an image of each pilgrim in the Canterbury tales. It is through each individual that Chaucer ... pilgrims further reveal their true nature as they tell their tale to the travelers. Works Cited Abrams, M.H., Donaldson, Smith, Adams, Monk, Ford, Daiches. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Company Inc., 1962. 74-81. Brother Anthony. “Chaucer and Religion.” http://www.sogang.arc.kr/-anthony/religion.html Goffinet, Ben. “Approaches to the ...
- 198: Huckleberry Finn
- ... Tom Sawyer. The two are, in several respects, foils. But they still have some things in common. Through the character of Tom, Twain also pokes fun at romantic (non-realistic) literature. Tom insists that all his make-believe adventures be conducted "by the book." As Tom himself admits in regarding his gang's oath, he gets many of his ideas from ... popularity in nineteenth-century North America. Tom will be identified with this genre throughout the novel (though he will not appear in most of it). Twain detested this category of literature, an opinion that is developed more fully in the last chapters of Huckleberry Finn. Ironically, the book that Tom explicitly mentions as a model in these chapters is Cervantes's ... a boy threatens to do this, Tom simply bribes him. Tom's above-mentioned character traits contrast sharply with Huckleberry's corresponding traits. While Tom puts great stock in the literature of civilization, Huck is as skeptical of it as he is of religion. For both literature and religion, Huck refuses to accept much on faith. In Chapter Three, he ...
- 199: Therapeutic Touch : Its Effectiveness On Surgical Incision Site Pain
- ... to inadequate pain relief from pharmacologic interventions. The need for more in depth research and application in the field of therapeutic touch as a nursing intervention is essential. REVIEW OF LITERATURE In preparing to undertake this research, various forms of literature must be examined. In a study done by Nancy Ann Kramer, MSN, RN on therapeutic touch and casual touch stress reduction of hospitalized children (1990), her study supported the use ... s pain rating. It also did not rule out whether any of the subjects had ever previously tried alternative therapies for their headache pain. In summary, the results of the literature seem to support that therapeutic touch is an effective intervention, whether for pain, stress, or anxiety. The literature also suggests that use of therapeutic touch can aid in recovery ...
- 200: Mark Twain 2
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens ... weeks writing his second book, The Innocents Abroad. Young novelist and editor William Deam Howells said the book contained an abundance of pure human nature, such as rarely gets into literature... (qtd. in Lyttle 110). Following the birth of their first child, Langdon Clemens in 1870, Twain set out to write Roughing It, a story recounting his early adventures as a ... Age was an immediate hit with the public and sold out three printings in the first month. Twain soon wrote perhaps the two most famous and influential stories in American Literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Howells would call Tom Sawyer the best story I ever read. It will be an immense success... ( ...
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