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...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
." - 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...
