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- 401: Sinclair Lewis
- ... and many others. His form of writing was satirical and his work reflected a lot of his life. Lewis was the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature. In total, Lewis wrote 22 novels and 3 plays. Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 in Sauk Centre in the heart of Minnesota. His father was a Dr. Edwin J ... Vickers in 1933 both examine the corruption of the social services. In 1930, his second son, Michael, was born. In the same year he is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and is the first American to be awarded this prize. In this next decade, Lewis turned his attention towards theatre. He published his novel Work of Art in 1934. In ... in Italy. The characters' guest appearances never become important to the plot of the novel. Sinclair Lewis was the first American writer to be awarded with the Nobel Prize for literature. All of his works are satirical and critical. He was a spokesperson for women's rights, antiracial issues and others. He replaced the traditional view of American life with ...
- 402: Violence And Pornography
- ... words, porne, which means harlot, and graphein, which means to write (Webster’s 286). My belief is that the combination of the two words was originally meant to describe, in literature, the sexual escapades of women deemed to be whores. As time has passed, this definition of pornography has grown to include any and all obscene literature and pictures. At the present date, the term is basically a blanket which covers all types of material such as explicit literature, photography, films, and video tapes with varying degrees of sexual content. For Catherine Itzin’s research purposes pornogrpahy has been divided into three categories: The sexually explicit and violent; ...
- 403: King Arthur
- ... not the custom of Welsh poets to invent people and events; this is a modern invention. Therefore, historians believe that all of the characters in the early poems of Welsh literature are real people with actual events (Schlesinger 17). In other early Welsh literature, Arthur is still a shadowy figure. This is partly due to the fact that we only have fragments of early Welsh poetry in which Arthur's appearances are brief as ... legends were woven around whatever historical nucleus there once was remains a puzzle (Barber 25).” During the eleventh and twelfth century Arthur became so popular as a hero that Welsh literature contains several references to Arthur which include actual incidents from his legendary career. The Welsh poets probably invented the incidents in order to enhance their work. Because of this ...
- 404: Aristotles Philosophy On Why P
- Aristotle's Philosophy regarding why People enjoy viewing Tragedies. The word Tragedy can be applied to a genre of literature. It can mean any serious and dignified drama that describes a conflict between the hero (protagonist) and a superior force (destiny, chance, society, god) and reaches a sorrowful conclusion that ... reality. Of course a possible variation of the tragic concept would allow a character to have a fault which leads to consequences far more dire than he deserves. But tragic literature is not intended to make people sad. It may arouse pity and fear for the suffering protagonist, or for all humanity, especially ourselves. But usually it also is intended to ... emotions. And because Tragedies produce a bursting of a number of emotions, humans are attracted to them. Tragedies have been a crucial and symbolic component in shaping the world's literature. Their involvement of emotions, intricate language and complex plots has verified men's limitlessness of intelligence. Their involvement of human heroes and heroines that make human mistakes interests attracts ...
- 405: Understanding Holden Caulfield
- ... Frederic I. “The Adolescent in American Fiction.” The English Journal 46.3: 313-319. Chugnov, Konstantin. “Soviet Critics on J.D. Salinger’s Novel, The Catcher in the Rye.” Soviet Literature 16:5: 182-184. Costello, Donald P. “The Language of The Catcher in the Rye.” American Speech 34.3: 1959. Edwards, Duane. “Holden Caulfield: ‘Don’t Ever Tell Anybody Anything ... 1986. … . J.D. Salinger, Revisited. New Haven: Yale UP, 1990. Furst, Lilian R. “Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground and Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. 5.1: 72-85. Goodman, Anne L. “Mad About Children.” New Republic 125.16: 20-21. Hassan, Ihab. “J.D. Salinger: Rare Quixotic Gesture.” Western Humanities Review 21.2: 261 ... K. Hall and Co., 1989. Strauch, Carl F. “Kings in the Back Row: Meaning Through Structure: A Reading of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.” Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 2:4: 5-30. Wakefield, Dan. “Salinger and the Search for Love.” New World Writing 14.1: 68-85.
- 406: The Queer Use Of Women In Borg
- ... rivalry in Borges is never the consequence of a powerful tie between a man and a woman, but rather between two men. Sedgwick, in applying Girard's theory to English literature, extends Girard's theory and finds that the rivalry between two men that is expressed through desire for the same woman is a bond "as intense and potent as the ... Tarán. New York: Bilingual P, 1976. 300-319. Lima, Robert. "Coitus Interruptus: Sexual Transubstantiation in the Works of Jorge Luis Borges." Modern Fiction Studies 19 (1973): 407-417. Magnarelli, Sharon. "Literature and Desire: Women in the Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges." Revista/Review Interamericana 13.1-4 (1983): 138-149. McMurray, George R. Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1980 ... House, 1988. --- and Alastair Reid, eds. Borges: A Reader. A Selection from the Writings of Jorge Luis Borges. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1981. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. New York: Columbia UP, 1985. Silvestri, Laura. "Borges y la pragmática de lo fantástico." Jorge Luis Borges: Variaciones interpretativas sobre sus procedimientos literarios y bases ...
- 407: Narcissim
- ... theories cite developmental problems in childhood as leading to the development of the narcissistic disorder. The existential school has also attempted to deal with the narcissistic problem, although the available literature is much smaller. Existentialists postulate that society as a whole can be the crucial factor in the development of narcissism. The final perspective to be discussed is the humanistic approach ... or she can adapt by re-fusing or returning to the practicing subphase, which affords him the security of grandiosity and omnipotence (Kernberg, 1976). The Preferred Psychodynamic model The Psychodynamic literature in general tends to lean towards the object relations school because of the emphasis it places on a comprehensive developmental explanation (i.e. the use of Mahler’s individuation-separation model). Nevertheless, the theory of Kohut has left a deep impression on Psychodynamic thinking as is evident by the utilization of many of his concepts in the literature (i.e. Johnson, 1987; Manfield, 1992; and Masterson, 1981). Therefore in the remainder of the Psychodynamic section a similar approach will be taken, by emphasizing object relations concepts with ...
- 408: Beowulf
- ... is usually a hero. This is a person who expresses courage and superhuman strength. These people are recognized as the epitome of all people in this time. In Anglo-Saxon literature the role of a hero is to protect good. There were many great pieces of literature during Anglo-Saxon times. Perhaps one of the best was Beowolf. In this story the main character is Beowolf, a man who protects the Herot from a terrible monster, and ... However, Beowolf is most admired because he is a hero and protects anyone in need. That is why Beowolf represents the hero portrayed in epics, as well as Anglo-Saxon literature, very well.
- 409: Henry David Thoreau
- ... older sister Helen, older brother John, and younger sister Sophia (Derleth 1) in genteel poverty (The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1). It quickly became evident that Thoreau was interested in literature and writing. At a young age he began to show interest writing, and he wrote his first essay, "The Seasons," at the tender age of ten, while attending Concord Academy ... receive both positive and negative criticism. Paul Elmer More said that Thoreau was: "The greatest by far of our writers on Nature and the creator of a new sentiment in literature," but he then does a complete turn around to say: Much of his [Thoreau's] writing, perhaps the greater part, is the mere record of observation and classification, and has ... in which Thoreau condenses his twenty-six month stay at Walden Pond into the seasons of a single year. Also, the idea is expressed in Magill's Survey of American Literature that: Walden was not a wilderness, nor was Thoreau a pioneer; his hut was within two miles of town, and while at Walden, he made almost daily visits to ...
- 410: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Test of One Knight's Chivalric Attributes
- ... all about" (Sir Gawain). The critic Robert B. White Jr. says that "one need not look far to discover the general symbolic significance of red when it appears in early literature; it [is] generally associated with blood, cruelty, and violence" (224). The Green Knight's eyes display just how sinister he is and provide the reason that the other knights are ... the Green Knight. Ed. Donald R. Howard and Christian Zacher. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame, 1968. 85-105. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 6th ed. Ed. M.H. Abrams. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993. 202-254. Thompson, Frank Charles. Comp. and ed. The Thompson Chain Reference Bible. Indianapolis: B.B. Kirkbride and ... Studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ed. Donald R. Howard and Christian Zacher. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame, 1968. 223-226. Zesmer, David M. Guide to English Literature: From Beowulf through Chaucer and Medieval Drama. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1961.
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