Oral literature

U Man Long Reading Response 4 1. In “The Dangerous Spread of Commercialize Culture,” the author warms reader the dangerousness of the ubiquitous advising. The author offers reader a clear historical background of the raise of commercialism. Then the author gives examples of how advising has a negatively impact on health. Those advising even target on children. Local governments agree on the display of advising because they cannot resist the sizable revenue. Also, the commercialism also make…

Juan Rulfo gained worldwide popularity and recognition with his style of writing and with the unusual yet masterful use of time in his unique novel “Pedro Paramo”. The past as a means of telling a story plays a crucial role, such that it takes the form of a place in the novel. The way the book is written and the information in it is served may confuse the readers at first, as Rulfo plays with the nonlinearity of the narrative sequences and chaotic arrangement of dialogues. Major themes and…

A Personal Response. Blake’s poetry is considered to be some of the simplest forms of this art, but in pieces of literature such as “Little Boy Found”, “Little Boy Lost”, “The Chimney Sweep”, and “The Lamb”, truly understanding the meaning of each word can change the overall meaning of this piece. Reading between the line is what makes a reader truly comprehend Blake’s viewpoints and ideas that he is trying to say within his poems. Readers thought that Blake was writing about things that did…

Part Ⅰ：My gains in the class I must say Reading and Writing this course brings so many benefits to me. First of all, the direct result is I have finished reading Aesop’s Fables. And I touched a great number of new vocabulary, especially the animals’ name. Although I cannot memorize them all, at least I can recognize these words when I see them. This book consists of many stories, and each story tells us a proverb, which is rich in philosophic. We can learn how to conduct ourselves in the world…

William Shakespeare was a famous writer and poet; known throughout the world. The works of William Shakespeare have been performed in different places all over the world. Furthermore, he also added more than a hundred new words to the dictionary in history. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford, Warwickshire, England. His actual date of birth remains unknown, but is traditionally observed on the 23rd of April, He was…

purpose of my written task is to identify the proletarians as a marginalized, excluded and silenced group in the book 1984. The book was written by George Orwell, and published in 1949. The task refers to part 4, the studied literature part of the English Language and Literature course - Power and Privilege - and comprises of the various cultural, social and historical contexts belonging to the novel. While playing a relatively minor role in the novel, the proletarians (Proles) constitute the…

Metrixing the Matrix: A Linguistic Analysis of Intertextuality on the Basis of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours Gašper Ilc To all those Mmes Richard Dalloway who have not even been Clarissas 1. Introduction Intertextuality has played a central and controversial role in the development of the postmodernist thought ever since the publication of Kristeva’s seminal works on literary theory. Strongly influenced by structuralist semiotics, Kristeva (1980) extends…

Anti-Transcendentalism Transcendentalism is a literary movement that believes that truth exist beyond reason, hard evidence or experience. The followers of this movement, the transcendentalists, believed that it was time for America to have its own form of literature, and these writings were made very different from those found in other parts of the world. There are 5 themes common in works of transcendentalism. They are Nonconformity, Self-Reliance, Freethought, Confidence, and Importance of…

“A writer’s technique is actually the means by which he discovers, objectifies, explores and evaluates his subject, and his technical dexterity determines his success”---Mark Schorer This chapter undertakes to make a detailed examination of all the narrative techniques present in the two novels, Wuthering Heights and The God of Small Things. The novel, as an established cultural institution has over the last two hundred years become the most significant and dominant form of literary writing…

A general misperception is that when movies that are based on a novel, or graphic novel, are made with have the same storyline, characters and archetypes. However, it is my humble opinion that movies made from books are drastically different to the original. The graphic novel Coraline was written by Neil Gaiman. As it was extremely popular, it’s no wonder, Henry Selick later turned it into a movie. There are so many different literary devices in the two versions that it provides an opportunity…