1915 in literature

From the beginning to the end of a novel, a character can go through countless changes; both physical and emotional. However, these transformations are what contribute to improvements in society, growth as an individual, and often times, the strengthening of relationships with others. Through experiencing the good and bad of life, one’s true self and beliefs are revealed. This emergence of inner values and understandings can lead to having a better outlook on life and finding oneself. In her…

Leonardo DiCaprio speaking Shakespearean dialogue, love or lust, and illegal drugs, become a strange product when put together, but are the base of Luhrmann’s film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. The adaptation Romeo + Juliet is a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s original, but set in a modern day Miami like city. The characters use guns instead of swords, but still speak in Shakespearean English. This film’s modernization of everything except the dialogue caused it to be misunderstood. However,…

readers instead of the book itself. The way of approach to the literature classifies the different types of readers. It, then, embedded a vigorous declaration on how evaluative criticism can overpower and overwhelm the reader which results in the slaughter of an individual’s opinion on a literature. It is a wonderful book as it takes u the road of discovery of types of readers (includes self-discovering), the true meaning of a literature, and eventually the function of a criticism. The major…

differences between the book and novel. The characters of both the novel and the movie are also different. The way the characters think, act, feel, and do can express the compare and contrast between the two literary works. This is what makes each work of literature unique. It is this uniqueness that makes both fun to read and…

Emily Dickinson, an American poet, has written hundreds of poems. The total count falls just short of 1,800 (Roberts 735). Obviously, she wrote on many topics. Two of her most frequent topics are love and death. While love and death may be very common themes in many people 's writing, they are ironic themes for Dickinson for several reasons. Dickinson was never married and never had an open relationship in her life, but she did go through many deaths. This makes it ironic that she still wrote…

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…