Artistic merit

Debating if a piece of text is literature or not is still a tricky topic in this day and age. The Oxford English Dictionary defines literature as “Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit” but to really define and classify a text as literature you need to delve deeper, ask more questions and do this with a completely unbiased and open mind. Perhaps no other authors work has been debated in this manner quite as much as Edgar Allan Poe. His short stories,…

concept is being fiercely debated. Copyright does not need to be registered and belong to the author when a work is recorded retain at least once on a storage medium. Copyright usually only be recognized when the new creative, with a portion of the merits of the author and may indicate that there are unique…

are “left-brained” is in my opinion, a myth. I think this because people do not utilize one side of their brain more frequently than the other. It is commonly believed by many people that those who are “right-brained” tend to be more creative, artistic, and emotional, while people who are “left-brained” tend to be more logical, analytical, and excel in mathematics. I have heard this idea throughout my education many times and my reaction to this idea is that it seems to be a very simplistic…

central in comprehending what is happening, so knowing how the artwork fully contributes to the book can change the perspective of the audience. While someone may not find interest within the actual writing of the novel, some people may instead find merit within the artwork displayed. Within Alice in Murderland there are several allusions to many books, both English and foreign. Alice in Murderland is a play off of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but there are further allusions to a folktale…

for the muffled voices of the oppressed African-American people during the early to mid-twentieth century. While she did not lead over 20,000 people in marches through Selma or Washington, Hurston was an influential civil rights activist by her own merit. Laurie Champion states, “although critics initially objected to Hurston 's works because she failed to take a political stance that focused on the plight of blacks in a racist society, during the 1970s, her works were rediscovered and fresh…

In ancient Israel, protocol at animal sacrifices permitted the high priest’s servants to plunge a three-pronged fork into the cauldron of boiling water and return to the high priest whatever amount of meat they were able to draw up. In defiance of this rule of law, the sons of Eli (the high priest and predecessor of Samuel as judge of Israel) instructed their servants to take as much meat as they wanted, forcefully if necessary, even before the meat was fully cooked. "This sin of the young men…

Literature by definition is superior written works having artistic merits, and on the other hand Philosophy by definition is a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for any behavior or work. In simple words we can define it as mood of writer. Mood is state of mind or feeling. I don’t think any writing is without mood or feelings. I went through so many hypotheses which reflect the same theory to prove this fact. “Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking” edited by…

The Harlem Renaissance was a movement of social and artistic advancement that defined an era for African-Americans, not only in the United States, but around the world. The movement also laid the foundations for an entirely different future for African-Americans living in the United States. However, this racial progress would not have been possible without the imaginative genius that grew from writers, poets, and playwrights within the African-American communities. Among these historic figures…

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION One of the studies most pertinent to Vanessa Bell’s domestic work is Griselda Pollock’s “Modernity and the spaces of femininity.” In the article, Pollock maps the cultural hierarchy of modernity which developed in Paris at the end of the nineteenth-century. Pollock articulates the social and economic advantages of the public sphere of the male versus the private sphere of the female and how the former has been privileged in histories of modernism. The notions of…

The Heian period, which lasted from 794 to 1185 CE, was undoubtedly the basis of modern Japanese culture. The period began when the Emperor, Emperor Kammu, moved the capital of Japan from Nara to Heian-Kyō (now known as Kyoto) after Buddhist monasteries became oppressive. The Heian period is also known for the Fujiwara Clan. During the Heian period, the emperor lost most of his power and became more of a representative to Japan letting aforementioned Fujiwara Clan gain said power. They were a…