Traylor's essay is key to not only understanding Afro-American contributions, but also the origins, evolution, and impact of each. Furthermore, it is crucial to note that such contributions were the basis on which American theatre found some of its roots. While reading other works of dramatic art, especially those from the nineteenth century, one should keep in mind the minstrel show and slave narrative. In doing so, there may be several similarities to identify and analyze to gain further…
His kindergarten chats and Autobiography was presented in the year 1901 to 1902. In his philosophy, there was formal and aesthetic aspects as well as social and extensive elements. This paper will address an extensive symbolic meaning of the work of Sullivan’s and then summarize some of the basics ideas in his system of thought. Early life and career According to Twombly & Menocal (2000), Sullivan grew up with picture memory since his early childhood.…
In this paper I will be discussing two wonderful authors I read about in The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volume A book. I will give a background on both artist Sarah Knight, and Anne Bradstreet. This paper will include how both writers can compare and how both artist contrast. I find both artist to be very well oriented when writing.…
The history of ideas is full of random encounters between highly intelligent individuals that sometimes result in relationships that produce profound intellectual growth. These cognitive results sometimes provide fresh approaches to unfavorable contemporary conditions. Depending on the social and historical context, these chance encounters have the ability to generate intense creative atmospheres that benefit all who are involved with the efforts of the emerging group. This research paper will explore one such chance encounter that occurred in Nashville on the Vanderbilt University campus during the early twentieth-century. During this period in Vanderbilt’s history, a group of highly talented faculty and students came together to produce a magazine that played an integral role in the Southern literary renaissance.…
Flaws are common in the human race. Attempts to fix these flaws by both outside pressures and by internal forces provides the basis of many literary works. One of these stories, occurring when the central character was in the fifth grade, is entitled “Go Carolina” and chronicles David Sedaris’s attempts to thwart his speech therapy teacher as she endeavors to correct his lisp. The first person point of view in David Sedaris’s “Go Carolina” expresses the theme that pointing out a person 's problem may only cause furthered efforts to hide it through the plot, the thoughts of the central character, and the characterization of Miss Samson. Miss Samson is painted as an antagonist due to the first person point of view, which furthers the theme…
Larry Patrick Levis, as a poet of the contemporary Period, exemplified the best of the genre. Through his use of poetic devices, style and thematic, Larry Levis has given us some of the most iconic and universally appealing work. Particularly in his poem titled “___________”, we see examples of his most salient particularities and effective use of English language. Larry Patrick Levis then stands as one of the greats in the pantheon of American and World Literature. Larry Patrick Levis was born in Fresno, California, on September 30, 1964.…
Introduction Norman Rockwell was an American painter and an illustrator who is famously known for his contribution to the reflection of the past American culture. The painter was born on 1894, in New York City and died in the year 1978 ('Norman Rockwell: A Life'). Most of his popular artistic works were published in the Saturday Evening Post magazine for a period of more than fifty years. Norman’s early life indicated a desire in artwork, as he left high school at the age of fourteen to join the chase Art school. Upon completing the art school, he joined the National Academy of Design, to further his art skills.…
In Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Wing Biddlebaum and Doctor Reefy are the main characters of two separate short stories, excluded from each other geographically, but still related through the idea of grotesqueness introduced in the first story of the novel. In following the definition of the old writer in The Book of the Grotesque, grotesqueness is acceptance of truths, created by man, and the consequent modeling of one’s life around said truth(s). In such a sense, I believe that Doctor Reefy elicits more sympathy from readers due to his denial of these truths, whereas Wing Biddlebaum is unfortunately forced into losing his individuality through conforming to the truths set by society. Firstly, it should be established that Wing Biddlebaum…
The following excerpt will be based off the memoir titled “LIT,” by Mary Karr published in 2010 by Harper Perennial Publishers. I will be sharing a brief background on the author’s story and purpose. I will also give criticisms and opinions of the memoir. Excluding the fact that I was demanded to pick a text to read, analysis, and report on, I chose Mary Karr’s memoir “LIT” simply because the titled sparked my attention—and I’m glad it did.…
McNairn analyses representations of Wolfe both popular culture and high art, from mass produced ceramics to Benjamin West’s famous painting of the death of Wolfe. In addition, he also argues that Wolfe became the embodiment of British patriotism and the superiority of the English way of life, which included the primary focus of his…
This paper will talk about three different interpretations of the art piece "Old Kentucky Home, Life in the South" by Eastman Johnson. To prove that, urban and rural scenes will be discussed along with the ethnic community described. This art piece has many themes with the piece, some having to do with people, place, and historical events such as the civil war. According to many authors, Eastman Johnson was one of the most successful painters in the 19th Century.…
What makes a poem a Black poem? The question at first blush seems absurd because of the obviousness of the answer. Understood more fully, however, this question is deeper than it appears. The heart of this query is determining defining characteristics or essential elements of African American poetry. One small sampling of college literature professors found that the most common definition of African American literature was “African American writers who wrote about black characters and the black experience” (Gibson 77).…
While each period of African American literature has its own temperament, the Black Arts Era has an unparalleled mystique. Filled with a copious amount of compelling works, the Black Arts epoch boasts authors that are each more idiosyncratic than the one proceeding them. For instance, one author of the period , Malcolm X, pens an autobiography detailing his traumatic childhood and his incarceration-motivated transformation. Another interesting writer from the age, Ishmael Reed, gained recognition for his unique, and heavily satirical, literary personality. However, few authors from the Black Arts Era exemplify a character as alluring and dynamic as Sonia Sanchez does.…
Mr. Spiegelman loved his wife dearly, but the war had affected her greatly and she could no longer live in this world. For Spiegelman, life with his parents has always been difficult. From deciding to become an artist to his mother’s suicide, each one had a great impact on his relationship with his father. When Art Spiegelman’s father- Vladek Spiegelman- was young, he lived relatively stable life, never working a day in his life and having an unusually high amount of money on him during his time in war; even marrying into a wealthy family.…
The fiction of McCullers focuses on the portrayal of physically distorted bodies. In particular thecharacters from The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad Café represent a variety of physical anomalies. McCullers’ grotesque characters depict the loneliness of man and his incapacity to love each other. She portrays a dark and somber world devoid of sympathy, care, love and closeness in these novels that have no even a single normal character. This paper will also stretch the scope of the grotesque to refer to characters whose body, thinking and behavior depart from culturally sanctioned standards of normality.…