1911 in literature

In the modernism era of literature (1914-1945) William Faulkner wrote several books, short stories, and articles about children, families, sex, race, with fixations and life in the south. I did not feel that “A Rose for Emily” should have been selected to appear in literature books or curriculums for college or high school for that time period. This short story was not a “yardstick” For literature in this era. William Faulkner refuses to discuss his works in interviews. He does not like to…

The Challenges of NW Zadie Smith’s novel NW, like Small Island, seems to be seeking to bring about a greater sense of solidarity among English subjects. Its style of development, fragmented just as is Small Island’s uses varied narration in each chapter and broken pieces of plot which the reader must gather together and it would seem that it would equally invite readers to empathize, sympathize and unite as a nation, yet this does not happen, in spite of talented writing and excellent reviews…

characteristic of the Middle Ages, or, more obliquely, the ‘mediæval’ or ‘romantic,’ both of which are positioned as opposites to the classical” (Reeves 233). However, in today’s modern culture, gothic fiction can be described in simpler terms as a genre in literature which emphasizes and illuminates the darkness “of terror and death and violence” (Fiedler 9). This literary movement allows authors to better portray and relate the more so real aspects of everyday lives to their readers as gothic…

How can someone be so accomplished and yet maintain humility? To look at their hard work and always see room for improvement? Professor Carlos Nicolas Flores has had a prosperous career, and as a result, he has been published numerous times. His most recent work has received excellent literary reviews, and Flores was even asked to undergo interviews to discuss it and what inspired him to complete it. This novel, a product of some of the authors life experiences and imagination, provided me with…

Table Of Contents Psychology: Eye Witness Accounts ---------------------------------------------------Pages 2-4 This is a paper I wrote for Psychology 100. The paper is based off a case study that we participated in as a class. Before being prompted with this paper, I was tasked with watching a video followed by a series of questions about the video. These questions were testing the memory of the study’s participants. The data was then consolidated and I had to analyze it. This piece…

When I started this year off I had no idea how hard the curriculum actually was for an English class at the college level. This made my under-preparedness show in much of my early works and my understanding of upper level novels. Once into the class, I could see myself actually growing as a student in all aspects of school not just this class. Although my journey through this class has not been the easiest I have found the benefits of this higher level of thinking which allows for much brighter…

“Text means tissue” Roland Barthes once stated, emphasizing that a text should not be viewed as a finished product “behind which lies, more or less hidden, meaning (truth)” but rather as a fluid entity which “is worked out in a perpetual interweaving” (64). Thus, a text does not hide one single truth, waiting to be discovered, but – in perpetual interaction with its readers – creates or at least permits a multiplicity of meanings. Symptomatic of the complexity of meanings woven into a single…

The Artist E.E. Cummings is a brilliant poet that creatively uses words and phrases to make his poetry entertaining and lively to read. Cummings’s poetry is very unique to me because his work tends to deviate from the typical poem through the punctualization and grammar. The words of his poems are sometimes spelled incorrectly and organized strangely. Sometimes he has multiple phrases stuck together and other times he separates one word into several lines. This type of writing catches the eye of…

The Five People You Meet in Heaven, which was written by Mitch Albon, is a fiction and I found myself very fond in reading the story. It is a general age type of reading material, but somehow I believe the storyline gave its focus more towards the adult readers. Its elements of humane values and life notifying messages that took over the plot made me wanted to flip through the pages for even more. I was carried away enjoying the uniqueness of how the plot was being organized. This story is set…

At first glance, an examination of the totality of historical fiction seems rather trivial—showing little to no purpose other than displaying a historical concept; but with some deconstruction, the genre reveals itself to be much more complex. Historical fiction adopts the factual material from a moment in history with the intent of using it in the development of a fictional narrative, opening the door for the use of a variety of literary devices that would be inoperative otherwise. The genre of…