The major theme of the genre was like to explain and understand the movement toward a new national identity. ... The main theme in the play is love between Mary and Efrain. The literary work focuses on death, pain and great gods. ... This is very common in literary works of Romanticism. ... In summary, these reasons Maria de Jorge Isaacs is considered a great literary work valued by this literary movement in the nineteenth century....

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The universal themes of individualism, self-reliance, and slavery became the building blocks responsible for the creation of a uniquely American literary voice. ... Philip Freneau genuinely portrayed the American individual in his poetry and helped to develop themes that were uniquely American. ... James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Leather-Stocking Tales, embraced this new literary convention and created his own American voice through the character of Natty Bumpo. ... Emerson took up the cause with the theme of self-reliance, also a uniquely American voice. ... The universal themes of indi...

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However, during this decade, a literary explosion of Latin American literature took place named "The Boom." El Boom "was simply the discovery of a new literary language in which to express Latin American reality with, for the first time, complete authenticity1." ... Some read them for a different settings but the self-promotion between the writers themselves and the influence of the Biblioteca Breve Prize, which was awarded to five Latin American writers throughout the 1960s, encouraged the development of an eager reading public.6 These factors provided for a situation favorable to a widespr...

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The literary world of the early 1950s was energized by a confident and diverse new generation. ... African Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jews from Eastern Europe, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans gained large audiences and won prestigious literary prizes. ... This rapid growth meant tens of millions more readers "and colleges and universities began to encourage the reading of writers and literary movements outside of "the canon- that had been established decades before. ... The interstate highways that spread across the continent in the late 1960s,...

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Themes The first theme in "The Sandbox" is society starts losing its values. ... There are also literary elements in "The Sandbox.... The next theme is the Games and Wars. ... The fourth theme is about the American Dream. ... " The last theme is love and hate in a marriage. ...

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Realism is a literary form of writing. ... The literary form of Modernism, developing in the late 19th century, was greatly influenced by realism. ... Henry James was the first writer to introduce the theme of an American in Europe. ...

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The two main themes in this highly symbolic novel reflect on the disintegration of the traditional "American Dream" through the shallowness and corruption of the upper class. ... Fitzgerald uses these symbols to represent his true, literary voice. ...

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Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. ... As exemplified in this poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (recited by an actor), Dickinson focused on themes relating to death, eternity, and love, usually in short four-line stanzas. ... There, in 1925, ...

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Puritan Literature The Puritan literary legacy is not one renowned for its aesthetic virtue. ... By educate of course I mean covert to Christianity which is an ongoing theme in Native American relations. ... Also it is worthy to mention that a less recognized literary tradition was finding its roots at this time. ...

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This tradition is absorbed in the literary movement of transcendentalism that is expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. ... His mayor themes would be racism, liberty of rights and expression and also of individualism, emphasizing in his writings the word "I". ... The book appeared on the fourth of July, as a kind of literary independence day. ... The themes of the poems were education, temperance, slavery, prostitution, immigration and democratic representation. ... This become the most famous frontispiece in literary history. ...

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The literary history of American Indian writers started in the 1850s with John Rollin Ridge's publications. ... Even though there are differences among native literatures there are also similar themes throughout all of them. Four major themes are the sense of the beautiful, sense of the sacred, sense of place, and sense of community (Ruoff 6). ...

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This idea of "language and knowledge is power" is one of the reoccurring themes in George Orwell's famous allegory, Animal Farm. ... This can be seen in his creative adoption of various literary devices. ...

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The structure of creative writing underwent a change, as the importance of form equaled that of theme. ... The playing pattern usually initiates with the theme, then follows with a reed solo, trumpet solo, piano solo, bass or drum solo every second, third, or fourth number. ... The Beat Generation was a movement that rebelled against the social and literary conformity and conservatism of white, middle class, suburban, post-war America. ...

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Literary analysis "THE LOONS- The story "The Loons- is set in Canada in 1930, and the action takes place in Manawaka and by the Diamond Lake. ... The themes in "The Loons- are many, as the conflicts are as well. ...

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Justice Brennan declared something obscene if "the dominant theme, as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest." ... In Miller, the Court affirmed Justice Brennan's beliefs by stating that obscenities must lack "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." ...

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Having been portrayed in literary criticism as a giant fish, a grotesque monster, an American Indian, an African slave, his incarnation changes from "a savage and a deformed slave" to the "quintessential colonial victim". ...

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