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    There are many ways of expressing the subject of a text, and people use these forms of text to learn new information based off of these types of literature. The Code Book and The Dark Game are two examples of this and have many similarities and differences. With these differences, a reader can decide how they can be able to learn the information given, either through stories or through pure information. Even though The Code Book and The Dark Game have a similar purpose, discussing the use of…

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    any one subject. Rather, even the inspired or passionate men of science require the rationality and the imaginative powers of those men of letters. Furthermore, in the year 1885, Matthew Arnold produced an essay called “Literature and Science” that shows the necessity of literature in education and society. During his time period, the majority of the population was in pursuit of studying what life is made of, how the elements of nature interact, and how these elements move through space and…

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    of Comparative literature Second semester: Research plan Spring 2017: (1st report) Supervisors: Prof. Kürtösi Katalin & Prof. Fogarasi György Title: A critical study: How Edward Said explicated the predicament of Exile through the works of 20th century novelists. The Twentieth century can be considered as a highway in which several ideas, attitudes, and opinions in arts, history, politics, and literature exchanging…

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    Usefulness Of Literature Literature does have a practical purpose and that purpose is to captivate other important abilities that make it an essential part of education. In addition to that, it provides knowledge of our literary culture, that increase the awareness of cultural values, history, sociology, and psychology. Literary expand our accommodation to empathize with people. Increase the ability to see and imagine human involvement, and broadens our intellectual perspective to increase our…

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    time due to its brilliant plot and peculiar characters, it also has an abundance of historical importance as well. Firstly, Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre was one of the first modernist literature to be published. “‘Modernist Literature’ is [just] a hefty phrase that basically refers to literature written between 1899 and 1945, and involving experimentation with the traditional novel format” (Shmoop Editorial Team). The peculiar originality of this inspiring novel is that is…

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    No Sugar Coating Needed Popular themes of literature come and go with the seasons of life that the world faces throughout the years. Different times and events in history have produced very distinct and unique writing styles to parallel what is happening in the culture at that point in time. Examples of this can be modernism, romanticism, naturalism and so on as they reflect the shape of society. These movements all have very specific times in history where hordes of authors were all writing…

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    Emerson Transcendentalism

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    probably wondered: If they both started as one, then how has the vocabulary, particularly literature, in Great Britain and America come to differ such a great deal? Well, a transitioning point happened in the past that people commonly correlate the beginning of American Literature. Ralph Waldo Emerson-a poet, essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and minister- represented the beginning of this milestone in history, in addition to another movement known as transcendentalism. Through analyzing…

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    Thomas C. Foster’s How To Read Literature Like A Professor is, as it says in the title, a guide on how to read literary works more professionally in order to better understand the concepts, themes, symbolism, and other aspects, like intertextuality better. Mr. Foster includes examples from many well known and praised works in order to give the reader a sense of what they should be looking for in order to contextualize a literary work. For example, Foster uses each chapter as sort of a guide.…

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    and d’Urberville made her feel that fabricating systems was in vain. “Where was truth found? On earth or in eternity? As SDB states in Literature and Metaphysics on page 269 “there is only one reality” it is in the midst of the world that we think through the world”. While some writers write on either earth or eternity effectively keeping philosophy and literature separate, others try to “express this condition in its totality.” (Quote) “that is what gives a good novel its value. It allows one…

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    Raymonde Guillet Professor Nelson ENG 203-I01 25 July 2016 Unit 2 Annotated Bibliography Bruzelius, Margaret. "H.D. and Eurydice." Twentieth Century Literature 44.4 (1998): 447. Biography in Context. Web. 21 July 2016. In this article, the author states how most poets convey Eurydice in their accounts of Orpheus. The author also describes how most accounts of the Greek legend are put together. Then the author describes the context of H.D’s account of the legend and how Eurydice is portrayed. The…

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