Children's literature

1. Where, when, and what was your last English course? How do you feel about your writing? The last English course I took was during my years as an undergraduate; that was over fifteen-years ago. In regards to my feels about writing, I have always had a love for writing- at least until recently. In my line of work I do a lot of mundane writing. It is quite repetitive and can be brain draining. As a result, I seldom feel creative enough to want to write outside of work anymore. 2. Have you…

From the centre of modernity, dismayed by the world wars, with a sense of dislocation, and in a search for tradition, T.S Elliot, has remained a crucial figure in Literature and criticism. This essay aims to explore Elliot’s pursuit for tradition and order in response to the chaos of his society. The critical essay ‘tradition and the individual talent’ will be focalised on, to analyse Elliot’s scrutiny of tradition, and critics will be engaged to receive distinctive facets of the argument.…

The author of the article “Fitzgerald Studies in the 1970s” is Sergio Perosa. Perosa was born in 1889 in Latin America. He has written several books, articles, and journals in Spanish as well as in English. His work includes “The art of F. Scott Fitzgerald” and “American theories of the novel”. In this article, Perosa emphasizes on how in the early 1970’s, numerous authors commenced evaluating Fitzgerald’s methodology of writing. In this article, Perosa examines how different writers critiqued…

The Writing Life Annie Dillard’s, The Writing Life, gives the aspiring writer bits and pieces of her own experience to help fuel the creative process an eager learner needs to get their own desires from literature onto paper. With frankness, Dillard gives advice on how one should begin to write, revealing an insight into the reality of the beautiful yet difficult process of the written word. One piece of advice is simply just to write down anything and everything. Without putting yourself out…

Women in Saudi Arabia became one of the major and essential aspects of the building and the progress in advancing the society and the country in every field. Women are now able to contribute to the public opinion and be part of all the things that exist in Saudi Arabia. Quite recently, women have been permitted to participate in the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia (Majlis Alshura) where the country’s issues are discussed and solved between a number of members (Alarabiya). In fact, the more…

teacher, not that I would know which one to choose either way, and only one option for the time. Going in, I expected a lot of essays about random topics and quizzes on pieces of literature, something quite like my high school experience. At this point, that’s what English Studies meant to me, five paragraph essays and literature were all I…

A woman by the name of Anne Tyler once said "If I waited until I felt like writing I 'd never write" I never realized how true this was until my teacher made me write a short story. I hated writing. Research papers, speeches, stories, I didn 't like them. I didn’t they were necessary. I had a creative writing class in the 11th grade. The class was just put on my schedule. I didn’t want the class so, just like the other students in that class, I tried to get out it. Nobody could leave.…

‘Thoughtful insights through history ’A great poetic montage written by a man with a unique view on the killing of humans throughout many centuries. Edwin Brocks, “Five Ways to Kill a Man”, will have you viewing history in an unfamiliar way. Each paragraph referring to how people have been killed throughout each century, with the end inflicting a dark humorous response. The unique view and invited reading is that, each century has a ironic and certainly cumbersome way to kill a man. It takes us…

“I am an invisible man” is narrated by Ellison’s character in Invisible Man at the very beginning of Prologue. The start of this literary work proposes many questions as to how the story will unfold. How can one become invisible? How does it interact with its surroundings and other people? Is it able to switch between visibility and invisibility? The narrator of Invisible Man is introduced with a feature that he may or may not have control over. However, it isn’t revealed as to how he obtained…

Until 1982, this stereotyped role of woman was the echoes of the many worldwide crime fictions. Nowadays, however, the role of woman in crime fictions had changed. Men aren’t the only detectives in the novels, but women can also become the “gumshoe” in many of the crime fiction novel, such as in “Murder in the Collective” by Barbara Wilson. Although the character in the novel was a woman, Wilson visualized the main character to play the role by becoming a lesbian (Duran). The role of the woman…