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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There are many different stylistic elements used throughout the novel Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert. ... These books reflected the more exuberant aspects of Romanticism, a literary and artistic movement that focused on the expression of the emotional and imaginative life of the individual. ... Evans provides a detailed overview of the beggar's physical ailments, and then interjects, Medically this is a complex picture, and the blindness appears to be no more than one symptom among many .Generations of literary critics have mocked Homais' attempts to cure the beggar wi...

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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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The Sagas of Icelanders have also been known, rather imprecisely, as Icelandic Family Sagas. They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). There are some forty in total (this being, fo...

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It is an easily accessible work, that the Dadaist Duchamp would label "retinal art", as it is an aesthetically motivated and stylistically anti-modernist piece. ... The painting conforms to stereotypical representations of the male body who is an agent of action, the rowers enforce their will upon the elements of nature (water, wind) and surge forward to the finish line, symbolic of the glorious future. ... These two elements, the reference to the past, and the celebration of the Nordic physicality, work to imbue the Nazi's political program (represented by its leader) as principled, trus...

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Abstract Ernest Hemingway's prose has left a lasting impression on the way American literature is written and taught. His name is legendary. Hemingway's style was influenced by his years as a newspaper reporter, both before and after World War I. Based on his experiences, this paper examines the ro...

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Walt Whitman(1819-1892), broke the literary tradition of his time with regards to content, form and style of his vigorous verse. ... This can be deduced particularly through the analysis of two stylistic elements: the demonstrative pronoun "this", at the end of the second line, and the synesthesia in lines 4 and 5. ...

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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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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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." - 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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