Nobel Prize in Literature

Naguib Mahfouz’s, Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, short story, “The Answer Is No”, published in 1991 addresses the topic of consent and asserts that traumatic experiences in the past can affect future relationships. Mahfouz supports his claim with foreshadowing about the outcome of the story with the title, similes to compare the rapists overbearing character to a violent current in the ocean, and concrete language to express the emotions the woman is experiencing…

legacy of literature that has influenced how American authors write today. The unique writing style and display of American culture emerged after political, social, and economic issues occurred causing many authors to turn to writing in response to these hardships. Novelists and poets such as Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck all have added to what we know today as the American voice. John Steinbeck contributes to the American voice and legacy of American…

Resistance literature is a very common type of literary works , this term was firstly used by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani when he applied it to the under-occupation and exile Palestinian literature. Another critics such as Franz Fanon and Epifanio Juan consider Third World literature as a literature of Resistance as it paint a n image of the miserable life in these countries and what they suffer from . this kind of literature represents a revolution against any oppression or…

Books and other literature considered to be “Un-German” were thrown into the fire and burned to ashes. The purpose of books is to share knowledge, and book burning is the ultimate opposition, destroying…

William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize Laureate who lived and died in Mississippi. Faulkner is one of Americas most highly respected writers and particularly praised for his Southern literature. He is known for his authenticity when it comes to the Southern way of life. He often used his real life experiences and included the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha which was based on the real-life county he grew up in many of his stories "A Rose for Emily" included. His…

In John Steinbeck's nobel prize acceptance speech Steinbeck claims that writers who do not believe in the capability of man’s perfectibility aren’t dedicated to literature. Although Steinbeck made this claim, after reading his fictional novel, Of Mice and Men, he doesn’t convey his same belief with the characters in the book. The book is filled with characters that are flawed in some way or another. Some may have that capability but there are some that don’t in this book by Steinbeck. With that…

Grapes of Wrath is his most famous novel and told a story of a family who is migrating to California from Oklahoma. This book tells another story in the setting of the Dust Bowl. In 1940, Steinbeck’s book The Grapes of Wrath was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. John Ford directed the film of his novel and it made the book even more popular.…

Louis Pojman. "Why Do We Need Morality?" How Should We Live? N.p.: Thomson/Wadsworth, ___2004. N. pag. Print. This book was written specifically for those trying to learn philosophical ideas such as mankind’s state of nature and connect these ideas to modern works such as Lord of The Flies. Louis P. Pojman, the author, was a Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy, has won numerous research and teaching awards such as the Burlington Northern Award, and has authored or…

Ernest M. Hemingway An extraordinary author was once quoted saying, “There is nothing to writing, all you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” This author is none other than Ernest Miller Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway was an American writer that began his career at the age of seventeen. He was in World War I, and after he came back, he became a reporter for both American and Canadian newspapers. His writing was mostly during the post-war Depression Era. Hemingway was born July 21,…

The canon should not be viewed purely on European immigration because after all it 's the American Canon it should fill Americans with pride so it should have the work of all who contributed to the American literature. By adding the work of minorities to the Canon that would end the viewing of it as European and would add a sense of American nationalism to it as the canon should have a feeling of pride and nationalism to the American audience and the American…