All three authors have published their works and have made great contributions to the study of this topic. ... When writing about naturalism, it is often said that the authors are too frank with their explanations of this theory. The authors write about the cruelties of life including sex, racism, and disease. ... A great foreign influence of naturalistic writing was Emile Zola from France. ... " By the authors publishing their works, the rest of the United States was exposed to the naturalistic movement. ...

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As the new world struggled to gain independence from it's mother country, Britain, native authors also struggled to develop their own styles of writing. ... Many people saw the triumph of American independence as a divine sign that America and her people were destined for greatness. Greatness came with a strong nation and thousands of poems and stories that shaped our nation. ... These writings were very dry and lacked insight into the everyday lives of the authors. ... He was the first author in American literature to make the neurotic, the heroic figure, the protagonist, in his stories....

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This new writing influence can be found in the works of William Bradford, who wrote OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION, and Anne Bradstreet, author of HERE FOLLOW SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE, JULY 10, 1666. ... This piece of history was written at the time of a religious revival, the "Great Awakening", which was marked by waves of conversions that spread from congregation to congregation- conversions so intensely emotional as to amount at times to mass hysteria. ... From this mixtures of outlooks came a very triumphant time in American life, encouraging writers such as Benjamin Frankli...

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One could argue that it can be somewhat illogical for a writer's work to hold great weight in society if the said individual has not had any exposure to the thousands of years of literature before them. ... "I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language-the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth" (Tan). ... Inversely to reading rhetorically, the author of a text must consider their purpose for the piece and generate a plan of executing the composition at hand. ... Depending on the purpose of a piece and the necessary...

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This childlike writing style does make the book feel more realistic, but it is not what makes it so great in the eyes of scholars. ... Stephen's references to famous scholars and authors from the real world shows his knowledge of literature and makes him more realistic by connecting him with the real world, rather than being trapped inside the book. These numerous allusions also indirectly show Joyce's knowledge of literature, because this book really is a reflection of the authors own life, and that, as well, aids the believability of Stephen's character by anchoring him to a...

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I will draw information from the large body of Hemingway literary criticism, his fiction, and the authors own comments on the craft of writing. ... It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... Hemingway knows how not only to make words be specific but how to arrange a collection of words which shall betray a great deal more than is to be found in the individual parts"." ... As we will discuss at length further down, Hemingway drew a great deal of his style and influence from his time at the Kan...

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This article is known as a great example of fine writing that was published on August 27, 1997 in The New Yorker by Terrence Rafferty, a notorious American writer and journalist. ... By using fresh words and alternating the writing's tone, the author finds a perfect balance between formality and informality; allowing the reader to feel comfortable like he was speaking with a friend. ... You can clearly see that the author is good at depicting the characters of the article (Cobb in particular) to the point that by the end of the reading you feel like you actually know the ball player. ... ...

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An example of an idea of the dangers of intellect would be through Frankenstein, to whom "life and death appeared ideal bounds" to be broken through, whom succeeds in his intellectual pursuit but at great cost, because in the end he not only loses his brother, wife, and best friend, he also ends up being the most alienated. ... In a nutshell, Griffith focuses on the ideas of the Romantic Era and describes how they are all in Frankenstein and gives input on other ideas such as how the life of the author is basically being told in some sections of the novel. ...

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The famous Renaissance author, courtier, and father of deductive reasoning, Sir Francis Bacon, once said, "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." ... Even in today's society filled with computers and a wide range of other technology, the written word is still held with great importance, primarily in the business world. ... This requires a great amount of skill on the part of the CRM, therefore displaying the wide variety of writing skills they must possess. ... The adaptation of CRMs to be able to correspond in both complex and simple writin...

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The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of life and the patterns that society are prone to following. This brought about curiosity and the religious affiliated explanations were no longer sufficient. The dissatisfaction for many, and believing mindlessly in something with no real evidence was intolerable. Society's ...

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