History of literature

Introduction: Arundhati Roy, the first Indian woman writer to have won the Man Booker Prize in 1997 for her debut novel The God of Small Things, has chosen to employ language psychologically, typographically, structurally, and culturally in order to create characters and represent the Indian sensibility in all its cultural dimensions. Language is not only employed to mean the spoken or written words but also the way cultural groups understand and communicate to one another through customs and…

exist in a modern pop culture. The Odyssey by Homer translated by Robert Fagles and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett manage to pull this off with incredible storytelling and revolutionary works of writing in history. Both of these stories follow a same broad idea, the story of a person and their journey to home. These stories both have striking similarities despite their extreme differences, such as the protagonists’ respective roles in society, the…

While Foucault identifies history with the past and the documents containing such information, Taylor (n.d) identifies history as a field correlated to the trauma that forms part of human existence. According to Taylor (n.d) history is part of human existence and it should be referenced according to the events that took part in the past years. This means that it should never be separated in terms of durations of discontinuities, but it should rather form part of the existence. Unlike Foucault…

possessing three Master’s degrees in English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Studies between Literature and the Arts ( Britannica 2017). She has a deep personal connection with the recurring themes and topics of migration, identity, and immigration that permeate her books. While being interviewed for the April 2008, issue of The Atlantic by Isaac Chotiner, she was questioned as to why her literature continuously focuses on the immigration experience. She replied by saying “It interests me to…

what society now refers to as ‘history’; an essential tool critical for humanity’s self-knowledge. The traces of Herodotus that he has left behind retain a meaningful place in both the context of Classical Greece as well as the context of the modern world. Through the use of primary and secondary sources in this essay,…

Also, the book introduces the seven characters that live through a period of economic hardship, no love, death and complete lack of hope. I found that the voice in the novel is rather disturbing. Despite this, it is an essential read for lovers of literature who seek to discover life in a virtuously complicated manner. As the story adds, “All nights I have bad dreams about severed hands. In one I’m eating chili and a hand comes out of my bowl and gives me a thumbs-down.” (1161). The vision of…

Established contemporary American writer, Sarah Dessen, perhaps one of the most well branded young adult literature authors, has written over 10 successful best-selling novels. Novels such as What Happened to Goodbye, Along for the Ride, and Lock and Key have sparked the lives of many individuals all over the world. The world introduced the future adored author on June 6, 1970 in Evanston, Illinois. She grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she eventually attended UNC – Chapel Hill where…

Science fiction for children is a form of fantasy literature that takes real science and extrapolates the science to form fantasy stories. Science fiction teaches students how real science ideas work but tweaks it so that it does not become real. Back when society carried boom boxes and radios to listen to music around the house on the way to the beach, when nobody could peacefully listen to music because they had headphones that weighed a lot. A writer by the name of Ray Bradbury introduced a…

In the text Young Adult Literature Exploration, Evaluation, and Appreciation Third Edition Chapter 8 is about exploring historical fiction. Chapter 8 has many focusing points such as, historical predecessors of historical fiction, types, themes, and values of historical fiction, reasons for using and teaching historical fiction, criteria for evaluating and selecting well-written historical fiction, changing perspectives toward the genre and the issues surrounding historical fiction today, and…

Mapping Project: Fadlan and Battutah In Franco Moretti’s, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History, in a chapter titled, “Maps,” Moretti notes that “there is a very simple question about literary maps: what exactly do they do? What do they do that cannot be done with words?” and “Do maps add anything, to our knowledge of literature?” (Moretti, Maps, 35). In this essay, I hope to explain the significance of maps in both Ibn Battutah’s, The Travels of Ibn Battutah and Ibn…