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- 541: Hemingway’s Greatest Hits
- ... Hemingway, Strindberg and O’ Neil.” The Eugene O’ Neil Newsletter. Vol. 10.1 (1986): 16-22. Elliott, Ira. “A Farewell to Arms and Hemingway’s Crisis of Masculine Values.” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory. Vol. 4.4 (1993): 291-304. Hatten, Charles. “The Crisis of Masculinity, Reified Desire, and Catharine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms.” Journal of the History of Sexuality ... Zone Revisited: Hemingway’s Aesthetics and A Farewell to Arms.” South Dakota Review. Vermilion, SD: winter, 1984. 14-18. Monterio, George. “Patriotism and Treason in A Farewell to Arms.” War, Literature, & the Arts. CO: U.S. Air Force Academy, 1997. 27-28. Muley, Jim. “A Defuse of A Farewell to Arms.” Eds. Nicholas J. Karolides, Lee Buress, John M. Kean. Censored ...
- 542: Beloved 3
- ... was the authors way of proving the theme of isolation or it is just how I see it. The theme of isolation as in many of the other pieces of literature that we have read this year can been seen in this novel Beloved. The theme can be seen in the isolation of Sethe and her inner self. It can also ... s family from the rest of the world because of her past and what people think of the house and the family. Isolation can be a very powerful theme in literature.
- 543: Jean Sartre
- ... Les Temps Modernes. He was very profound in his struggle against Socialism. Later he supported Soviet positions but criticized their policies. In the 1950’s he wrote many pieces of literature on political problems. In 1964 Sartre won the Nobel Prize in literature, saying that he refuses to compromise his integrity as a writer, he refuses to accept the prize. He then becomes an outcast in society, for having turned on Existentialism and ...
- 544: Jean De La Fontaine
- ... Fontaine’s most prolific years as a writer, the 1660’s and the 1672’s, were the richest decades of what is often termed as the classical period of French literature he published his first six books of the Fables in 1668. The collection was deticated to the dauphin, the six-year-old son of Louis XIV. The final book of ... works. When he was younger he admired such writers as François Rabelais, François de Malherbe, and Honoré d’Urfé, but as he grew older he fell in love with Greek literature namely such ancient masters as Terence, Horace, and Virgil. Although he liked many, his favorite was Homer, but he did not follow the same writing style as Homer, were as ...
- 545: Fahrenheit 451
- ... a futuristic city, it is Guy Montag’s job to see that that is exactly what happens. Ray Bradbury predicts in his novel Fahrenheit 451 that the future is without literature -- everything from newspapers to novels to the Bible. Anyone caught with books hidden in their home is forced out of it while the firemen force their way in. Then, the ... 451 to anyone who likes a novel, which predicts how things could be in the future. After reading this book, I realized that I could not imagine a world without literature or free speech. Fahrenheit 451 is undoubtedly a four star book. Needless to say, it is the first book that I have had trouble putting down in a long time ...
- 546: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... work. Therefore, the work that has denoted her as one of the twentieth century's most influential authors did not come until after she had graduated from college. However, the literature she composed in college was by no means inferior. She was a defiant free-spirit even during her early college career. While working on an anthropological study for her mentor ... mother in African-American culture is on of guidance, love, and wisdom... Understanding the role of women in the African-American community starts by examining the roles... in Afro-American literature. (Bourn, 1). Bourn goes on to state that the role of the mother-daughter relationship is expressed vividly in Their Eyes... by the relationship that develops between Janie and her ...
- 547: Jane Adams
- ... widow with two sons. Jane felt no deep warmth for her stepmother, but this demanding and intelligent woman did contribute to her education, especially in the areas of music and literature. Sometimes the elder Addams would take the family on excursions. A most memorable one was the sixty-five-mile trip to Madison, Wisconsin, to visit not only the state capitol ... of her father by attending Rockford. One disappointing aspect of Rockford was that they offered certificates to its graduate's rather then conventional degrees. Religion and the study of classic literature dominated the curriculum at this educational institution. The following years for Jane Addams became the most difficult in her life. In 1881, John Addams the man she so very much ...
- 548: Elie Wiesel
- ... there, his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald In 1945, at the end of the war, Elie moved to Paris, where he studied literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne. With a strong desire to write, Elie worked as a journalist in Paris before coming to the United States in 1956. He became an ... books into English. His books have won numerous awards, including the Prix Medicis for A Beggar in Jerusalem, the Prix Livre Inter for The Testament and the Grand Prize for Literature from the City of Paris for The Fifth Son. Wiesel's most recent books published in the United States are A Passover Haggadah, Sages and Dreamers. The first volume of ...
- 549: Emily Dickinson
- Emily Dickinson America’s best-known female poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature died at the age of 56 in her hometown on April 6, 1886 due to an illness. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily was the middle child of a prominent lawyer ... role of Dickinson’s sister-in-law Susan Dickinson in her writing. For more than 35 years the two women lives next door to each other, sharing mutual passions for literature, music, cooking, and gardening. Emily sent Susan more than 400 poems and letter-poems, twice as many as she sent to any correspondent. Susan also is the only person at ...
- 550: A Critique of C. S. Lewis
- ... to Oxford where his studies were interrupted by World War I (1917). Two years later he was back in Oxford resuming his studies. In 1924, Lewis was "elected" to teach Literature and Language at Magdalen College, Oxford and remained there till 1954. During this time period in his life, Lewis wrote the majority of his work. Lewis moved to Cambridge for the remainder of his life teaching Medieval and Renaissance Literature.1 C. S. Lewis was a man dedicated to the pursuit of truth who" believed in argument, in disputation, and in the dialectic of Reason. . ."2 He began his pursuit ...
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