Southern Literary Messenger

"The Most Dangerous Game," by Richard Connel demonstrates "the world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the hunted." The story ,"The Most Dangerous Game," focuses on Sanger Rainsford, a skilled hunter, who ends up on an island after falling off a ship. On the island he meets Ivan and General Zaroff. The lesson the story shows significance of two types of classes, hunters and the hunted. Even though it conveys a sense of more than two classes, but the truth is that there are only two…

paper entitled “Odysseus’ Scar and the Question of Literary Form,” I concluded that wartime autobiographical writings—including letters, diaries, testimonies, oral histories, etc.—is a literary genre that successfully mediates the personal and the documentary, the contemporary immediacy and the broader history. This second position paper is an extension of the first one, looking into the tricky nature of autobiographical texts as a fragmentary literary genre. It argues that while fragmentary…

OUTLINE The 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)…

human society would not exist without language; he extended the idea by implying that without language there would be no religion, and that the utilization of language successfully is comparable to a “lightning rod” of criticism towards prominent literary writers. In Salter’s article he used techniques such as tones, fallacies, and evidence in attempt to support his claims. The use of tones,…

(114). However, it will expand her argument by claiming that the poem not only portrays the difficulties of decoding but also of producing texts and that it rejects the idea of a final reading. The beginning of the poem depicts the creation of a literary work, which starts as an assemblage of vague ideas and then gradually morphs into a concrete text. According to Gohrbandt and Von Lutz, self-reflexive poems – that is poems “about poetry and poets” (8) – mark themselves “as such on the level of…

The British South Asian theatre and Indian theatre in English: Natyashastra and Theatre Production Analysis constitutes a major study of the diasporic and contemporary Indian theatre in English and investigates the Natyashastra text, a treatise on Indian performing arts, to create a model of theatre production analysis. It is also an important contribution to the Natyashastra studies in general. Examining this treatise and some recent debates in theatre studies, the proposed book argues that a…

done by emphasizing the survival of humanity through the needs of the object, the importance of literary devices, and by revolving around the life and past experiences of the author to the connection of the figure. Throughout the two poems, the author displays his argument by displaying the spacing in each stanza, emphasizing the value and need of a figurative object, and parading the usage of literary devices. In both…

Lens Analysis: Literature Interpretation Literature can be viewed through various lenses as a way to see writing through a different viewpoint. The new historical lens is used to view writing through another time period while comparing it to the period the book was written. This lens can be interpreted as a way to “think about the retelling of history itself” (Brizee). It focuses on aspects like what language or events in the writing reflect the time period of the author (Brizee). The new…

women had very little say in society and were stereotyped to stay home, make babies, be a good home maker and wife. The 1940s were different, life for women was expanding, the men were at war and someone had to step up and take the men's place. In literary works, such as, “The Story of an Hour”, “The Storm”, “A…

Aristotle’s theory of poetics is a very important element that dramas can incorporate. It allows plays to have depth and similarities to historical literature. One drama that has these qualities is the play “Trifles”. “Trifles” includes a complex plot, a constant protagonist, thought, diction, and spectacle which therefore, allows it to fall under Aristotle’s theory of poetics. By incorporating elements of this theory, including both Mythos and ethos, the play forms an experience of catharsis…