Chinese literature

There is another ego, according to whose action the individual is unrecognizable.” (D. H. Lawrence) How did modernism re‐conceive character? With the rise of modernism there came a huge change in the way characters were presented in works of literature. Up to this point the realist writers painted their characters in broad strokes, often using clichés and making people act in a different way to how a real person would behave in their situation. Modernists, on the other hand, stuck to…

When our thoughts and actions are controlled by someone or something else, we don’t have the power to think for ourselves or use that power to do anything worth of meaning. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, this way of manipulation is the way of life. The things to gain knowledge and thoughtfulness is in books. They are burned by firemen who are controlled by the government and the students have useless facts and information and the answers given to them so they don’t have the energy…

Robert Herrick and Andrew Marvell are two famous poets who have several things in common regarding their way of writing; Andrew Marvell is an English poet, a clergyman and a parliamentarian, he was concerned with politics for a very long time, also, Marvell was called a nature poet and he was one of the best metaphysical poets. Even though Marvell wrote less than some other famous poets like Donne and Jonson, his range was greater, “as he claimed, both the private worlds of love and religion and…

of distinctly shaped speech and thought bubbles. David Carrier, in his book The Aesthetics of Comics, says that the sequence of images in a comic strip or graphic novel constitutes a narrative which brings this medium closer to that of mainstream literature. The author asserts that, to analyze the narrative, the reader’s awareness about the ‘speech balloons’ is important. In Bhimayana, we find two types of speech balloons: a bird-shaped one which is used in case of the benign man, or the victim…

PROSE STYLE OF Dr.S.RADHAKRISHNAN Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan A good prose-style is both a matter of choice of the words and their arrangement to form a complete meaningful sentence. Dr. Radhakrishnan is one the eminent philosopher of India who was a literate with special knowledge in handling prose style. Dr.S.Radhakrishnan was one of the most influential and recognized Indian thinkers in twentieth century. I wish to explain some important features about prose style just to explain how…

Ezra Pound gathered the scattered experimenters of imagism in a group and published Des Imagistes in America in 1914. It was quickly followed by three annual Imagist Anthologies- Some Imagist Poets in 1915, 1916 and 1917 respectively. The Imagists announced some “six principles for themselves to practice- (1) to use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word, not the nearly exact, not merely the decorative word; (2) to create new rhythms- as the expressions of new moods…

In the literary analysis over "Araby", "The Structure of 'Araby'", author Jerome Mandel uses a multitude of outside sources to support his main idea: "Araby", similar to others in this genre, are structured to be like a medieval romance through the usage of a certain pattern. This pattern consists of enfance, an introduction of the damsel who clouds the main character's vision, commitment to the quest, obstacles that need to be conquered to succeed, and completion of the quest, in that order.…

And yet she managed to rivet the attention of the broader audience, as well as of other writers and various critics. Even though she was a lesbian and described herself as a “strong feminist,” Bishop opposed the idea of feminist principles in literature, refused being included in women’s anthologies and objected to being…

According to Edgar Allan Poe, in his essay titled “The Philosophy of Composition,” a short story should be read in one sitting, anywhere from a half hour to two hours. A short story is a brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and it only usually deals with only a few characters, according to Brittannica. With it becoming shorter, it only usually focuses on one plot, with usually only one main character and with one theme. Basically, most short stories share basic elements…

Literature challenges our minds to go above and beyond from what is in front of us. Literature tells a story of human experiences. Reading about these experiences we learn history, and about human nature. Literature holds a purpose in American schools because it exposes students to new things, teaches them about the past, and shows them another way to communicate and understand human experiences. We learn how to dream, and are exposed to situations through novels we might have never had to…