Most of the time this incompetence stems from the same mistake; the authors are unable to passably use a stylistic device to entice their readers. [In Boy's Life, Robert McCammon beautifully conveys not one, but three superb stylistic devices that immediately captivate his audience.] When reading Boy's Life, one of the most eye-catching elements is the setting. ... In Boy's Life, Robert McCammon fabulously uses his storytelling power along with three stylistic devices to present his story in such a way that it will be well remembered for years to come....

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Focusing principally, though not exclusively, on the film, television and music industries, in this course we will study literary and cinematic narratives dealing with fame and notoriety alongside academic and popular studies of celebrity in America in order to relate these many functions to each other in terms of both historical continuity and historical change over the course of the last century. ... King offers a remarkably lucid examination of both the larger trends in the business-end of movie-making production and presents original takes on the thematic and stylistic elements of spec...

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It achieves an atmosphere of monumental dignity through the balanced arrangement of its" elements and the contours of its" figures. ... Picassos" art changed radically around 1907, when he decided to incorporate some stylistic elements of African sculpture into his painting. ... In Expressionism artists tried to present an emotional experience in its most compelling forms, through visual, literary, and performing arts. ... The merging of these conflicting elements suggests an alternative, or sur-reality, as the movements name implies. ...

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Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and philosophical movement in Western civilization from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. ... Cropsey employs a variety of artistic techniques to create realistic and stylistic elements. ... One of the most important elements of The Old Homestead, Wyoming Valley is its lighting and how it affects the other objects in the painting. ...

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At this point in time, there were a lot of elements that allowed American cinema to draw from, and in turn, steer American film in the direction that it has been going in for the past fifty years. ... His belief as a conventional filmmaker was that, "it's not so much what the characters do, it is where they're placed, and how the react. " "In Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, there wasn't any other figure that incarnated the literary tendency of French cinema. ...

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After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... It is not the history or the actuality that attracts in Mistry's fiction, but the way he uses these elements. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India literally these days, he does persist in taking literary journeys. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... It is not the history or the actuality that attracts in Mistry's fiction, but the way he uses these elements. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India literally these days, he does persist in taking literary journeys. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ...

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