1911 in literature

Kay Ryan’s “Chemise” and W.B. Yeats “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” demonstrate various technical aspects of poetry of which are fundamental in professing significance of what the poet or speakers subject matter. Diction, is a key component that depicts both the environment and conflicts that are expressed both internally or externally via metaphors and other literary elements. “Chemise” is a poem that utilizes diction in order to convey a conflict, depicted through language via man versus himself…

Stephanie Nolan Professor Freeman Comp. 111 Dorothy Parker Though her name is not known by all, her words are spoken by many. Dorothy Parker was a woman of strength and attitude whose prose, poetry, and short stories have lived on in literary relevance through almost a century. Her modernist views were criticized, her status as a female author scorned, and her brilliance was envied. If it were not for being Black Listed in the 50’s Parker would have been a name of legends. She is an example…

Kenneth Goldsmith, a popular American conceptual writer and poet has come to embrace Douglas Huebler’s quote “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add anymore”, except in regards to forms of literature. He discusses Majorie Perloff’s term “unoriginal genius”, as the romantic notion of the genius has become outdated. She believes that the writer today resembles that of a programmer. In conjunction with this, Goldsmith states in his article “It’s Not Plagiarism.…

"Cold War, Religious Revival and Family Alienation: William Styron, J. D. Salinger and Edward Albee." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 378, Gale, 2015. Literature Resource Center,. Accessed 16 May 2017. Originally published in Existentialism and Alienation in American Literature, International, 1965, pp. 211-242. As Sidney Finkelstein is a professor at Dartmouth University, has published twenty books and eighty articles, and has papers featured in: the…

While focusing on how to develop my voice for my character, I’ve decide to compare two novels, Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. While I read these two novels I decided to use Philip Lopate’s book To Show and To Tell as a reference for the way to tell a story with double perspective. In Junot Diaz novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar we are introduced a third person point of view narrator who later appears in the work himself telling a…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter is, in effect, just as much as a thematic parable as a novel telling a story. Many themes are entrenched throughout the novel, each surely holding the potential, and significance, to merit discussion. However, the one at focus in this composition is suffering; in particular, it is attempting to answer the question of whether we can say if one single character suffered more than others, and who this individual might be. While the four main characters…

The book I chose to read was Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes. Nikki Grimes is an American author of books written for young adults and children, as well as a journalist and a poet. She earned the honor of the Coretta Scott Notable Award. Nikki was born and raised in New York City. The book Bronx Masquerade is fiction. The setting is at a high school in the Bronx. The students did their everyday activities in their classes until they got to Mr. Ward's. In Mr. Ward's class, they studied the…

Regardless of complexities of plot and setting, the essence of a work can typically be distilled from a key moment in the novel – one that illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. In Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, the titular character travels throughout his life seeking enlightenment from a multitude of sources. Despite his efforts, Siddhartha struggles to fulfill his lofty goals and winds up constantly changing his life’s trajectory. As the story progresses, Siddhartha finally experiences…

The complicated essence of the concept of discovering means to find a sense of discovery through wonder, need and curiosity in an individual perspective. John Keat’s poem “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” and Anton Chekhov ‘The Bet’ displays the understanding of discovery through the text and how an individual is viewed by one another. The depth of discovery is to overcome the challenges and understand through the shift of time and seeing the individual changes that influences the readers…

Translating a contemporary love poem by Fawaz Allaboun turned out to be a challenging task. Allaboun is a Saudi poet and a Professor of Classical Arabic. He earned his PhD degree in Arabic language and literature at Al-Imam University. He published a collection of poems in a book called “Allabouniat.” Another collection of poems is forthcoming. The first problem that I encountered was in the different words that express the various degrees and state of romantic love in Arabic and the…