Wendy Beckett

Nauman was influenced by the French novelist and critic Alain Robbe-Grillet, playwright Samuel Beckett, and German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Robbe-Grillet and Beckett are both known for their use of word changes, repetition, paradox, and irony. Wittgenstein’s writings made Nauman aware of the concept of language as “a set of propositions that image the world.” Language is used…

James Joyce During the late 1800s, a scholar was born unto the union of an Irish decedent in Dublin, Ireland. He was born with a minor eye problem and dealt with it all his life and that become chronic throughout his life. Being the first child of his parent and oldest Mr. Joyce was a smart young man growing up as a child, he show the interest of education as a little boy as a result his parent saw how determine he was toward learning. The parent of Joyce saw unusual behavior in him that…

Timebound and City of Bones Timebound and City of Bones are alike in many ways, but also differ in many ways. They are similar in that the main protagonists in both books care so deeply for their friends that they would do anything to get them back. They are similar also because the main protagonists are both related to the evil villains or antagonists in the story. City of Bones differs from Timebound because at the end the protagonist finds out about a sibling they never knew they had.…

Personal Reader’s Profile As a kid, I remember I never enjoyed reading, especially in elementary school when we had to do reading comprehension activities. I dreaded reading out loud because I would mispronounce words and my attention would wander because I found the stories uninteresting and silly. In the end I could barely remember what the story was about, so as a result I could never give a proper summary. However, my attitude on reading first started to change in middle school and once I…

serve the main purpose of the play; the endless wait experience with all its psychological and emotional ups and downs. So, one can trace the events and understand it, yet there is no real connection in the play. 7- Characterization: Beckett always averts to clarify and explain more about his characters beyond what is written by him in Waiting For Godot(1953). The characters in Waiting For Godot(1953) are divided mainly into seen characters like: Estragon, Vladimir, Pozzo, Lucky…

Introduction: Don DeLillo is an American writer born in 1936. Delillo is a postmodernist and written eleven books receiving various awards for his work. The title of DeLillo’s eighth novel, White Noise, brings many assumptions towards the overall meaning of the book. White noise is when there is a combination of sound waves together creating a constant buzz. The buzz can produce a relaxing or overwhelming feeling. Although, it depends if it refers to a repetitive noise one is trying to avoid or…

Arising out of a rebellious mood, the late 19th and early 20th century was a time where many writers broke away from tradition by using modernism to take a radical approach on the way society viewed modern literature (Modernism/literature.com). Experimentation and individualism became virtues, where before they were looked down upon. Modernism was set in motion after a series of cultural shocks. The first of these great shocks was the Great War, known now as World War One. At the time, this “War…

Walden experiment. The death of the family can lead to many paths, Thoreau with the death of his brother and Beckett with the death of his father. When comparing both deaths one can examine how they were affected, while on the woods Thoreau was able to reflect upon the death of his brother, how a person could kill himself by accidentally cutting themselves while shaving. Meanwhile Beckett was Put in treatment after the death of his father. A common tragedy lead to a form art to be…

The Hell of No Exit Existentialism has always been a new way to view life. To live – to exist – without context, without labels, without definitions given by everyone else is a notion that is relieving for some and distressing for others. Written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1944, the French play No Exit, paints a vivid and imaginative picture of an existentialist’s hell. By trapping one’s greatest fears in a room for eternity, Sartre’s intricately woven depiction of modern Hell introduces a new…

2. The Crying of Lot 49: modernism or postmodernism? In my arguing that The Crying of Lot 49 can also be construed as a late-modernist text, I will turn to Harvey’s essay ‘The Cry from Within or Without? Pynchon and the Modern – Postmodern Divide’ where he fervently argues against McHale’s ‘claim’ that The Crying of Lot 49 is fundamentally a modernist text by presenting two core arguments relating to a) intertextuality and b) Oedipa’s search for truth. Before I will dispute any arguments of…