To get a general overview of the chosen topic and its available literature preliminary reading is essential. ... If the writer is confronted with a wide range of books, it is advisable to choose the most recent literature to find the most up-to-date writings on the chosen topic. ... The most common way is a brainstorming, but the author can also write "a paragraph or two broadly describing what you want to say, how you are going to organize it, what you want readers to understand, feel, believe. ... To sum up, developing a structure for the writing will ensure that the most important aspe...

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The author of the poem is unknown, as is the exact date of its origin. ... One of the main themes of the poem is that of the cross feeling at the same time both shame and glory "shame that men could murder Christ as they were and that it was the instrument of that murder, and glory that it had been chosen to bear Christ in his journey toward bestowing absolution upon all mankind. ... The author did not even attempt to hide his regard for the Anglo-Saxon culture and mind, in fact, he does and excellent job of convincing almost anyone of the philosophical and intellectual superiority of t...

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It possesses its own form of life, which breathes through meticulously chosen words and sentence arrangements. Madame Bovary "defies judgment " in that it is viewed objectively, by a distant author, who presents events realistically and does not interfere with the reader's thoughts or interpretation of the work. ...

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What is literature? We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. What is literature? What is literary study? Are they both different? What is the distinction? These questions are followed by the questions about the nature of literature, its functions, etc. Theory of lit...

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