Being physically weak Brown was very strong in his studies. ... By the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to Alexander Wilcox to study law. ... At age 22 he had decided to completely give law up and devote his time to literature. ... He was not only the first person in America who ventured to pursue literature as a profession, but almost the first to make an attempt in the field of imaginative writing, disconnected with the advocacy of any question of national or local interest." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She is a graduate of Barnard College where she received a Bachelor's Degree in English literature. ... She also attended Boston University, where she received a Master's Degree in English, Creative Writing and Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts. She also received a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Boston University. ... Also, in the story Shoba is a proofreader and even though proofreading is different from actually writing, it a job related to literature none the less. ...

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Literature was in her family since she was a little girl with her father being a librarian at the university of Rhode Island. ... Followed up her education at Boston University where she received an M.A. in English, M.F.A. in Creative Writing, M.A. in Comparative Literature, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. ... This shows another way how Jhumpa uses her Indian in her literature. ... This is one way Jhumpa puts her background into her literature with Bengail being the place she was born, in India. ... It's great how Jhumpa Lahiri shows this in her literature. ...

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Katherine O"Flaherty Chopin The Life and Literary Works Literature is often used as a devise to express opinions and ideas that are socially unacceptable. ... At this point, Chopin was taken out of the Sacred Heart School to study under her great-grandmother out of their home. ... Chopin loved to read and had an interest in literature since childhood. ... She was buried in Calvary Cemetery two days later (Toth, 243) Kate Chopin wrote some of the most powerful pieces of literature of the nineteenth century. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The use of this character device is widespread in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and indicates a growing awareness among authors that the "self " is really a composite of many "selves ". ... The phrase has a long history in literature, and was popularized (and perhaps coined) by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story, "The Imp of the Perverse." 2. ... Many critics consider Poe the founder of the so called doppelganger technique, in literature. ... More than a regular story, the latter one, is a study of the unconscious mind, and in some critic's opinion is an early version of...

• Word Count: 1909
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Through Historical, Biographical, and New Historical critical analysis of the author, and the time period, we will see that the effects of the war and how it greatly influenced this piece of literature. ... Before this, he studied law in Paris, but the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, which destroyed his family's fortune and forced Maupassant to find work as a government office clerk, interrupted his studies. ... In 1869 Maupassant started to study law in Paris, but soon, at age 20, he volunteered to serve in the army during Franco-Prussian War. ... (http://www.online-literature.com/...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are many prominent cross-cultural writers in the history of American literature. ... This change of direction brought him to Washington State University where he quit drinking and earned a B.A. in American Studies. ... I have wracked my brain to come up with an overall theme for this piece of literature. ...

• Word Count: 1573
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the years many dystopian novels have changed the way we look at our future. From Orwell's depiction of a society that is ruled by an all seeing eye looking over their shoulders in "1984" to a society where the government has all but collapsed to every man is for himself in Butler's "Parab...

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• Grade Level: High School

The civilization may be gone with the wind, but the discussion and study of that time will never end. ... He won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award and a Nobel Prize for Literature. ... Littler wrote that "A Rose for Emily- has been read variously as " a Gothic horror tale, a study in abnormal psychology, an allegory of the relations between North and South, a meditation on the nature of time, and a tragedy with Emily as a sort of tragic heroine- (Akers 2). ...

• Word Count: 1893
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• Grade Level: High School

Shinn, a Professor of English and Women's Studies at Purdue University, wrote " And her criminals, her misfits and prophets, are closer to salvation because they are in the spiritual realm: they are Evil and are fighting a religious battle within themselves- their belief or disbelief in Christ is a matter of life and death- (375). ... Though her career, along with her life was cut short, she already carved her place in the history of American literature. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

No matter her form of writing though she is still essential to American literature even today. ... It is decided from this research of Oates biography and study of her story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" that Oates is a deeply religious person who relies heavily on God's word. ...

• Word Count: 1228
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• Grade Level: High School

The first publication of the short story "Cathedral" was in the March, 1981, issue of Atlantic Monthly. It was selected to appear in "The Best American Short Stories, 1982," and became the title story in the 1983 collection, Cathedral. This volume was very well-received by critics and readers alike, receiving nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Many critics note a shift in Carver's work between the publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral, and many believe that Carver reached the zenith of his career with this co...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School