English literature

AP Literature is a tough, exhausting, and mentally draining class. College level 1010/1020 English is also a rigorous, strenuous, and stressful class. When one combines these two classes together, the result it a sleepy overwhelmed senior. This combination of English classes is what I drag myself to in the early morning for first period to begin my academic career. This class has been a life changing classes and far more challenging than any other class I have ever participated in. This class is…

Oh the Humanities! In the text, "Why Teach English?", Gopnik attempts to assert this main argument, that teaching English is a worthwhile venture. Gopnik begins by essentially discounting previous arguments that had been made in the defense of the English department. He provides several of his own arguments that he believe are more adequate. In these arguments, Gopnik discusses concepts like making literature available to all, pursuing a major out of joy for the subject, and needing the…

Marcy, an English teacher, gave her own story. Throughout Marcy’s life she learned many life lessons concerning literacy. From early on in life Marcy’s reading abilities would go through many changes. She would gain encouragement from her mother and her tenth grade English teacher. However, Marcy would have struggles, and she experienced the effects of having to learn in a remedial learning lab. Her life eventually revolved around books both in her career choices and her…

has given us some of the most iconic and universally appealing work. Particularly in his poem titled “___________”, we see examples of his most salient particularities and effective use of English language. Larry Patrick Levis then stands as one of the greats in the pantheon of American and World Literature. Larry Patrick Levis was born in Fresno, California, on September 30, 1964. He died on May 8, 1996 in Richmond, Virginia because of a heart attack. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from…

My passion for English began when I first started reading and found myself asking "What makes a great book?" or "What makes an author remarkable?”. It wasn't until I read Ian McEwan's 'Atonement' that I finally found answers. I loved the idea that a story was being told by an undisclosed narrator who was only revealed at the end of the book. It made me question whether everything I had just read was what actually happened or whether it was made up by the narrator. I loved the idea that a novel…

perception of it will. The old English poem, “The Wanderer”, and the Early Modern English poem, “Love (3)” by George Herbert, both share the theme of love and Christianity. However, since they are from two different literary periods, the way they are written and their opinion over the topic are going to differ. After the Romans failed to conquer England, the Germanic tribes took over in 450 AD and changed the culture of England. This was the beginning of the Old English literary period. Two of…

Literature throughout the world differs from culture to culture. Literature is designed to reflect one’s own experience and characteristics of their culture, often giving the audience an insight on how it was for them during a certain time. Mexican American literature is no different. Mexican American literature is very well known for its topics of hardships, migration life, assimilation into American society and the struggle of identity for Mexican Americans. In Infinite Divisions: An Anthology…

also in humanities. Some writers gave a birth to new ideas while the others reproduced the old ideas or themes and decorated them in a new mold. The significant theme in the twentieth century, particularly after colonization, which is widespread in literature, history, and politics, is the theme of exile. Nevertheless, the theme of exile is never born in the twentieth century or postcolonial writers find out it, but it is a phenomenon with very long history. One of the hypothesis refers to the…

Much Ado About Standardized Literature In the world of modern day education, school boards across the nation often refer to lists of “standard literature” when assigning reading materials to students. Among these novels are the classics: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, just to name a few. But what are students truly gaining from reading these well-known works? What are the school boards across America hoping to teach…

of the novel in the eighteenth century has flourished into many sorts; such as: the realistic, the sentimental and the satirical novel. The rise of the English novel in the eighteenth century does not infer that there was nothing of the sort of novel before then. To put things in perspective, the eighteenth century was the age in which the English novel came to presence at the hands of Daniel Defoe (1660-1731); by his rather famous novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Robinson Crusoe is an independent…