History of literature

History is compilation of data and materials gathered throughout time and analyzed to form some consensus of what happened in the past. A common way people learn about history is through reading and memorizing textbooks and historical literature. This can be an effective way of understanding the past but it is important to not overlook other ways of understanding the past such as artwork. Although artwork may not always tell the person about specific knowledge, it may sometimes give more…

ask the students to look through the book and get a feel for the poet and what types of poetry he/she writes. Each group had to pick out two poems to analyze. One student per group recorded the answers from a list of questions found in Perrine's Literature Structure, Sound, and Sense on page 641 in a chapter devoted to the analyzation of poetry. Some of the questions are: “Who is the speaker? What kind of person is the speaker? Is there an identifiable audience for the speaker? What can we…

Dial R for Revenge Revenge is a model embedded in our society since the earliest of times. It is a justice that evades the bounds of formal law and almost always undertaken responding to a grievance. To break revenge and its justice down to its simplest terms would be to illustrate the act as a cycle imposed with the result becoming an alliance with power. One character loses control, eventually taking this affair into their own hands, performing the act of revenge, which causes the one whom…

apart from everyone else. Everyone has a different experience of life, perspective and mind. It is how a mother tells her identical twins apart and what makes an applicant stand out in a job interview. As personality expresses who a person is, in literature an author’s writing style express themselves. An author’s writing style is what makes their work unique. Writer’s use elements such as word choice, sentence structure and rhetorical devices to make their work stand out. Novels such as The…

Fiction reflects the thoughts, aspirations, and struggles of its author. Through literary works, one can come to understand a cultural consciousness previously unbeknownst to them. With this in mind, historians have learned to use rather than ignore literature as an aid in their studies. Vernacular and modern tales of the Congo region capture both the fantastical and factual elements. Epics, like The Mwindo Epic, echo the foundation of Congolese culture form which thereafter conflict has arisen…

What does it mean by Post structuralism: Post structuralism emerged in the 1950s and 1960s as a movement standing against the key assumptions underlying the popular structuralism movement. Structuralism,its predecessiong school of thought,emphasized on the author as the prime subject of inquiry. In literary context,the author was considered all in all and was looked upon as the sole element of the work’s semantic content.But in opposition to this author centric notion rose up post-structuralism…

In the world of Literature and Poetry there is the writer and the poet and then there is the speaker. The speaker is the persona that communicates for the writer or poet. The speaker sets the tone for the poem and helps the reader to better understand the message or theme that the poet wishes to convey through their lines and stanzas. Poets may create and utilize a speaker when they wish to have their poem expressed from a different view point than their own personal perspective. The speaker in…

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most influential American novelists of the twentieth century who has brought about a phenomenal distinction in literature. Most of the writers have written only in a particular concept or genre, but Kurt Vonnegut has imprinted his undeniable mark in science fiction with humor, social commentary with absurdity and so on. Kurt Vonnegut has written fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. His works are occupied with…

all we hear about as we’ve grown up is connected and possibly untrue. The book The Edge of the World, written by Michael Pye allows us to have a different view of our past and things in it that we may never have known.With a conventional view of history has the dark ages beginning with the decline of Rome in the 400s and the lights not coming back on until the Renaissance and a millennium later. But it has become increasingly popular to wonder whether there wasn’t something going on in all that…

In this essay I wish to discuss how Woolf brings history and fiction together in Orlando to reveal the limitations of Victorian historiography and biography. Orlando doesn’t focus on literature’s preoccupation with history but focuses on fiction’s engagement with the discipline of history itself,it illustrates the ways that narrative fiction challenges the authority of information documented by professional historical biography in the twentieth century. The perspective that I have chosen to…