History of literature

American history, artists of every medium have attempted to capture controversial or impending issues within the country. Music, movies, and art have all reflected these problems within society, but none of these have accomplished the plight of American literature. From fiction to memoirs, millions of lives have been affected by these books, and have learned valuable lessons in some of the most unconventional ways. Two examples of historical fiction books that have helped shaped modern…

A Mesmerizing Perspective of American Literature: Throughout history literature has shaped the substructure of America. From earliest contact of explorers like Christopher Columbus to writers of today’s works in the 21st century. American literature starting with Puritan culture, holds an array of different writers, styles, viewpoints, and inspiration. American literature has set past and present standards, broken barriers, and peregrinate from most prospects by transcending veracity and…

The late arrival of African American women literature has become the focus of the study that reflects how African American women sought out freedom and equality. At first, this form of literature was unknown and not voiced because throughout history African American literature was through the perspective of African American males. Authors and poets like Phillis Wheatley, Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou and many others have paved the way for many aspiring African American women. Often these women…

I have a deep rooted love for classic literature and a passion for acting and performance, especially Shakespearian theatre. I believe both literature and theatre are essential for humanity’s growth and evolution, as they provide an inspiration to others and allow us to think and express our feelings about current situations. Studying specific texts in Literature such as ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’ has developed my skills in analysing and interpreting texts including character, a skill…

Marc Brosseau, a cultural geographer, proposes a critical and comprehensive contour of what he calls “Geography’s Literature” through which literature intersects with “the broader intellectual agenda” of geography (Brosseau 1994: 335). In this article, Brosseau not only documents the intersection between geography and literature since the 1970s but also argues that literature can be a new object for geography. He scathingly criticises the geographers who are looking for real facts and simple…

There are multiple works of literature that discuss the Spice Trade and it’s influence on the world and culture. Even though the Oil Encounter has few pieces of work written about the topic, it can be held in comparison due to it’s economic and strategic value along with the encounters it has cultivated with politics, culture, and military. There is almost nothing of intellectual merit written about the Oil Encounter in English, nothing of the sort that has been written in Portuguese. Oil holds…

There are many reasons why reading literature is important to society and important to being human. Reading literature allows us to step into someone else’s shoes and understand their differences and culture. Allowing us to step in someone else’s shoes, we can feel sympathy, rage, happiness, or love; giving us these emotions means that we can experience empathy, which is the one aspect that makes us human. Authors have the ability to reach these emotions within people by using diction, imagery,…

Mythology in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’ “The Phases of Anat” and how myth is employed to serve cultural and resistance purposes by means of creating and ascertaining identity through proposing and documenting a new version of the subaltern history that have been marginalized for decades in view of the capabilities of their powerful occupiers at all levels. to serve supporting his people’s predicament by means of elevating the Palestinian issue to an international, rather a…

get an idea of what literature was like back then. Without a doubt, William Shakespeare he was one of the greatest dramatists, and the greatest propose write in the history of human language art. The reason students should learn about William Shakespeare because his theme is meaningful, his language are great and meaningful, many words that our English used today are based on Shakespeare language, and the last reason is that Shakespeare works are part of the language art history. So today I will…

The Epitomization of American Identity Through American Literature The present is shaped by those who took action in the past. There exists in early American literature and history, a struggle for the realization of equality. Which opposed the accepted immoral standpoint of discrimination and exclusion. Held by the majority of public during most of the literatures publication. Authors such as William Apess, Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln depict the battle between a…