Apocalyptic literature

the benefits of socialism. A common argument that is based off The Jungle is whether the book is literary fiction or propaganda. Some people argue that because the book is realistic fiction and the author depicts an accurate example of what good literature is with the quality of his writing, The Jungle must be literary fiction. Others argue that because the book promotes socialism and degrades capitalism, The Jungle must be propaganda. Since both arguments have reason to be made, it is clear…

throughout his childhood. History is the study of change overtime and historical fiction brings the history alive through characterization, themes and an accurate setting. The historical experience is entertaining and instructive – a prominent pattern in literature that creates an in-depth story as well as lasting…

During this past semester in English 112, I have worked toward improving my writing skills through practice. Throughout this course I wrote four essays: a summary and response, an argumentative, a literary analysis, and a multigenre. Each of these papers were a different type and had its own specific goal to work on. These goals varied greatly and were achieved to a different degree of success. Each paper is presented in the order in which they were written, with the drafts on the left and the…

Rosmarie Waldrop is a contemporary poet who seeks to understand the source of art as well as to reform it. She appreciates the paradoxical desires of the writer to break free of long-practiced and redundant structure, yet she understands the human need for order and arrangement. She acknowledges the fact that there is no such thing as an uninfluenced line of poetry; whether the influence is a grammatically and culturally correct form, or an emotional or ideological belief that is shared by poets…

In the beginning, there was an overused prepositional phrase whose only purpose was to satisfy my writer’s block. How did it all come down to this, ripping off the Bible’s introduction for a college paper? Did I learn nothing from my literary mentors? Do I not have any sense of creative dignity? Throughout my whole life, I have worked hard to make my passion for the art of the English language known, and all I have to show for it is a terrible case of writer’s block. “In the beginning”, I was…

Ongoing debates regarding the quality of a movie compared to the narrative it is based upon are present in everyday life. Some people believe that the narrative always has a greater appeal than the movie as a result of the significant amount of detail available that may be insufficient in the movie. Others argue that movies are more intriguing than the narrative due to the visual effects that they may not be able to conceptualize while reading. Such discussion pertains to the movie Stand by Me…

Throughout reading The Things They Carried, my understanding of particular literary theories has vastly increased. The main lenses in which my group used to interpret the novel was feminist, psychoanalytical, and postmodernism. During the first block, it was more difficult to determine which lens to look through, and a lot of thought had to be put in when reading the block as a whole. But, as the book progressed, I began to pick up on particular instances and immediately recognized which…

and Colonialism,” and Richard T. Gray’s “Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Failed Mediation in ‘In der Strafkolonie’.” Compared to other canonical authors, evaluating Kafka’s literature in the context of his life proves to be a more illuminating pursuit because of the tremendous amount of literature Kafka left behind in the form of letters, diary entries, editorial notes, etc. To understand Kafka’s peculiarities then is to understand the environment he was born into. The first child…

Edward Estlin Cummings who is also known as E.E Cummings was an American poet. He also was many other things such as a painter, essayist, an author and a wrote many plays. E.E Cummings poem “Since feeling is first” published in 1926, is a short lyric that includes punctuation that is unpredictable, unconventional syntax which was a style that, Cummings used as his trademark for most of his writing. The short lyric is very seductive, and implies that passion that is felt so strongly overrides the…

Lauren Boyd Mrs. Mary Smith AP Literature 20 September 2017 How to Read Literature Like a Professor Essay Thomas Foster’s novel How to Read Literature Like a Professor is an analysis of how most literature is written now and in the past. He hits hard on how symbolism, foreshadowing, and patterns which he mentions both of the topics multiple times in each of the chapters with symbolism being mentioned all the time. Throughout the book, he gives multiple examples for each chapter and he…