Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts, but his legacy was cut short, passing at age 40. He was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, best known for his tales of mystery. “He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing
From the Massachusetts Book Awards – A Program of the Massachusetts Center for the Book A Reading and Discussion Guide Massachusetts Award Winner The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Riverhead Books Prepared by Deborah O. Doulette Neilson Library, Smith College 2008 PRELIMINARIES Oye! Listen up! And hold on to the edges of your book because Junot Diaz has written this buenmoso historia that is muy, muy importante. And if you don’t speak Spanish/Spanglish, it doesn’t matter; this historia moves so fast, you might not want to take the time for translation. You’ll just be a little bit disoriented, a little bit of an immigrant in a new novel world.
Nathanael’s literary style and theme of his stories were passionate romanticism and mainly dark romanticism. The spectacular author had many amazing works and so many popular books. One of his greatest works was The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Twice-Told Tales (1837). Edgar Allan Poe once said, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth".
“Civil Disobedience” – refused to pay state tax b/c opposed Mexican war III. The flowering of American literature A. Nathaniel Hawthorne – New England Writer, haunted by Puritan ancestors (Salem Witch trial judge); impossible to remove all sin from human soul B. Emily Dickinson – original & powerful Poet; themes: life, death, fear, loneliness, nature, god C. Washington Irving – proof American could make career of literature, adept imitator D. James Fenimore Cooper – conflict: Man vs. backwoods nature; romances of frontier life; model for cowboy movie, novels E. Edgar Allan Poe – Gothic horror short stories; inventor of detective story; fear most powerful emotion F. William Gilmore Simms – gentleman of letters G. Herman Melville – realistic fiction (based on his adventures at sea), Moby‐Dick H. Walt Whitman – explicit sexual references; homoerotic elements; rejects women’s domestic sphere I. The popular
Semra Çelik 210120612 Rakesh Joban Putra Question: Analyze Salinger’s exploration of ‘phoniness’ in The Catcher in the Rye. Ignorance of the Phony World: Holden Caulfield The Catcher is the Rye is the only novel of Jerome David Salinger and Holden Caulfield is the narrator and the protagonist of the novel. In the whole novel Holden tells us what he did just before the last Christmas from a restroom. One of the favourite words of Holden Caulfield is phony and he uses this word more than thirty times during his journey in the novel. Holden uses the word phony to describe or point out the things that he doesn't like in the adult world that makes them, adults, superficial and two-faced, and the things that he wants to reject.
1-17) http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/haycox.html 2/18 (Holiday –no class) (in Adaptations pp. 18-33; in Reader: “Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads”) 2/25 “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” 1993 / Smoke Signals 1998 (in Adaptations, pp.34 -49) Paper One and Two Assigned (due 3/11 and 4/22) Suspense/Film Noir: 3/4 “Maltese Falcon” 1930 / Maltese Falcon 1941 (in Adaptations. pp. 50 – 82; st FYI: novel’s 1 chapter and portion of script is included in this reading) 3/11 ”The Killers” 1927/ The Killers 1946 (in Adaptations, pp. 127 - 132; 151-153) Paper One due 3/18 ”Memento Mori” 2001 / Memento 2000 (in Adaptations, pp.
In the book, these are described as the respective (but functionally identical to each other) ideologies of the two rival totalitarian superstates, Eurasia and Eastasia. In this film version (and in the 1954 television play), Goldstein's illegal book is given to Winston disguised as a Newspeak dictionary by O'Brien during their meeting in O'Brien's apartment; in the novel it is handed to him in a briefcase resembling his own amid the hubbub of Hate Week, after the alignments of the war had changed (or not changed, according to doublethink). The Newspeak dictionary was used by O'Brien, in the novel, as a pretext for giving Winston his
The first book he wrote was called “The Innocents Abroad”, which was published in 1869. Another famous book he wrote was called “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considerably his most famous book of all time. He
Abstract This essay seeks to overturn Kyle Baker’s claim that he represented the “true” character and “true” story of Nat Turner in his graphic novel Nat Baker. This essay first briefly examines the famous novel The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, that is based on the same source as Baker’s graphic novel. This essay explores the techniques that made this novel controversial, and questions why this novel was more highly criticized than Baker’s graphic novel. Through a general explanation of the difficulties of interpreting history, one learns that it is truly impossible to depict history in a full, unbiased, honest form. Daniel S. Fabricant explains in “Thomas R. Gray and William Styron: Finally, A Critical look at the 1831 Confessions of Nat Turner” the various reasons as to why many, such as Baker, have trusted Gray’s document as well as why Gray’s document needs to be questioned.
Memories Of My Melancholy Whores is one of Gabriel Gracia Marquez’s ( The Author Of One Hundred Years Of Solitude ) great piece of work. This novel was originally published in 2004 with a Spanish title and published again in oktober 2005 with and English translation by Edith Grossmen. However, Memories Of My Melancholy Whores was not the best of Gracia Marquez novels, and in comparion to the Love In The Time of Cholera, this novel is lighter and more casual. But it has its own unique wisdom throughout style. This novel is about a man who has reached the age of ninety and wished to have a wild love with a fourteen years of virgin as gift for his birthday.