A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. ... This is not meant to devalue what effect taste has to do with literature and understanding literary movements. ... Quality from my perspective has to to with how the literary piece catches my attention. George Orwell's 1984 is a dystopian fiction revealing a society illustrative of certain well-known social terms such as the following: government, society, political party, totalitarianism, deviance, punishment, mob, social control, power, language, propaganda, status symbols beliefs, crime. and self-con...

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Thus, rather than examine the dramatic elements of the play I will focus on the literary components that it has in terms of characterization, plot, the author's style, Shabaka's tone, and narration from the first person point-of-view. ... Another key literary component is the author's style or the way in which the piece is conveyed or portrayed to the audience. ... Ultimately Mingus Remixed has many literary elements of fiction such as characterization, point of view, plot, style, tone, and storytelling within its unorthodox structure; that it is narrated like a novel while al...

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The essay explores the shift in literary work during the restoration period. ... In this poem he demonstrates aspects of the restoration period literary work. ... In the poem, he describes ordinary human beings in heroic terms. ... Clearly, the restoration period had great contribution in the development and presentation of literary work. ... During this period literary work was used to fight vices and instill morals....

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These theories, along with the literary theorists behind them, are imperative to understand and recognize for their role as the foundation of this modern literary study. ... Iser uses the terms determinate and indeterminate, other wise known as indeterminacy, as a way to explain Rosenblatt's "blueprint " concept in his terms. ... In other words, when critics assess the text, they are not actually looking at the literary work. ... Holland terms this, a reader's "identity theme, " which gets projected onto the text by the reader (Tyson 183). ... Reader-Response Criticism is without a...

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These characteristics that make you stop re-read or re-think about what has just happened is what makes "The Cask of Amontillado" a very strong literary piece. One of the key literary characteristics is Poe's use of language. ... As if the sophisticated phrases weren't enough Poe went and used some Latin terms in the story. ... The picture that Poe paints in the reader's mind about each scene really proves the story is a true literary piece. ... These sometimes in depth and hard to follow characteristics are what would drive a mainly commercial literary reader away from "The C...

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But can we say then that a romance novel is a non-literary work? ... Until then, romance novels are non-literary. ... Most literary histories do include treatment of philosophers, historians, theologians, moralists, politicians, and even some scientists. ... In practice, we get automatic and unprofessional accounts of these authors in terms of their specialty. ... The literary historian is not automatically transformed into a proper historian of these disciplines. ...

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For some time now, feminists have examined literary works in terms of the absent/objectified presence of the Other, in whatever form Other might be recognized (for example, anyone not white, male, or educationally and economically privileged). We have also critiqued culture and history in these terms, articulating at least some of the consequences of such constructed oppositions and exclusions. ...

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As Patterson said, "While literature necessarily arises from a historical matrix, it can never be adequately understood in terms of that origin, no matter how carefully the scholar seeks to reconstruct it"(Patterson, p 9). When it comes to interpreting the history of South Asia, one must look into literary as well as historical texts in order to see the big picture. ... Even in the Dharmashastras (Law Books), a literary source, there are biased views due to the Brahman authors. ... Literary texts give information regarding to history, such as geographical clues and cultural traditions. The R...

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In "The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, the personality of Montresor is explicitly demonstarted to the audience through numerous literary techniques employed by Poe throughout the story. ... But he wants it on his own terms, and to reach those he must commit the actions that transpire in the story before he might possibly be satisfied with Fortunado's doom. ... The entire story acts in many ways, as an in depth look into the mental state of a man and as such, Poe's literary methods effectively reveal Montresor's character in great detail....

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The African perception of life, religious believes, political ideologies, literary insights and thought patterns were best represented in these African languages as initiated by the African ancestors. ... In precise terms, African languages have been significantly lost to English and French languages among others. ... In other words, these foreign languages have bestridden the African literary world like a colossus, forcing the African writers to compress their thought patterns and ideologies within the available expressive modes of these foreign languages. ... More so, there is the challenge ...

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In the actual medieval period the terms 'Amour Honestus' (Honest Love) and 'Fin Amor' (Refined Love) appeared. This concept was new in the Middle Age, because there was no literary or no social framework of romantic passion in the Christian world before the end of the 11th century. In earlier literature, the term 'love' related exclusively to platonic and Christian love however this new concept of love was just a literary concept that cannot be applied to real life due to what it entails. ... David Lyle Jeffrey in fact goes beyond this and declares that court...

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In the actual medieval period the terms 'Amour Honestus' (Honest Love) and 'Fin Amor' (Refined Love) appeared. This concept was new in the Middle Age, because there was no literary or no social framework of romantic passion in the Christian world before the end of the 11th century. In earlier literature, the term 'love' related exclusively to platonic and Christian love however this new concept of love was just a literary concept that cannot be applied to real life due to what it entails. ... David Lyle Jeffrey in fact goes beyond this and declares that court...

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In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... This topic is a sensitive one, but it becomes a lot more understandable when one can really hear what Donnell is trying to say using the literary devices that he does. ... Sure, Alexander does a wonderful job expressing cool as it applies to him and his ancestors, but in terms of defining it for all humanity, he is incomplete. If one was to use his terms of defining cool for all peoples everywhere (not just on a pur...

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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. ... They are also profoundly effective marketing tools, enabling audiences to know in broad but accurate terms what films are about, long before they actually see them. ...

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He does not act upon it because it would mean that he needs to be exiled and come to terms with himself. ... Dramatic and verbal irony is overwhelming in this tragedy and those two literary devices gives the story passion and makes the atmosphere that much more emotional and deep. ... In Greek tragedies, the tragic truth is known by the audience, so irony must be apparent in every scene, as to heighten the downfall to get the audience to come to terms with their own personal feelings about the tragedy. ...

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This marked a growing liberality in religious thought and practice, and this period was significant in terms of religious searching and the development of new forms of religious thought. ... Form, particularly traditional literary forms, mattered much less than inspiration, enthusiasm, and emotion. ... " The poem is innovative both in terms of style and content, forever altering the course of American poetry. ...

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They saw: "The post war mood of disillusionment and skepticism (which) was expressed in bizarre terms by a number of foreign playwrights." ... In response, Stoppard was able to open his audience's eyes, as "The element of "pure", abstract theatre in the theatre of the absurd is an aspect of its anti-literary attitude, its turning away from language as an instrument for the expression of the deepest levels of meaning." ...

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Satire is a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked. ... By replacing the humanness of the terms "mothers and fathers" with the raw term "breeders," Swift takes emotion out of the subject so that it may be talked about in a serious and completely economic and political context. ...

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If one was to look up the definition of the word "essay" then what one would find is: a: an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view b: something resembling such a composition. In layman's terms: someone's written point of view on a given subject. ...

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But since the poem claims the primary literary voice in the invocation of the "Muse", coming from a literary authority is an automatic inferior authority. ... Cromwell's death and the reinstating of the monarchy put Milton in a wary place not only physically, but in terms of his politics and religion. ...

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Adaptation: the phenomenon Literary texts provide a vein of raw material which is already tested: stories which work and are popular, as well as offering the 'respectability' conferred by the notion of 'literature' in itself, as well as the cache of certain writers. ... Film makers are not known for offering such blunty commerical reasons for making particular adaptations, and, while the writing of the adaptation is itself is a creative undertaking, writers of adaptations rarely announce innovative or bold approaches to their subject matter, tending instead toward cau...

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The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians The popularity of Geoffrey's Historia and its other derivative works (such as Wace's Roman de Brut) is generally agreed to be an important factor in explaining the appearance of significant numbers of new Arthurian works in continental Europe during the 12th and 13th centuries, particularly in France.[71] It was not, however, the only Arthurian influence on the developing "Matter of Britain". ... However, the mos...

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The issue of this article is that if Iraq and Saddam's regime is not disarmed of their weapons of mass destruction, Saddam will use his cover of his nuclear weapons to try to forcibly unite the Middle East to confront the Western alliance. I chose article number three, which is "The war against Ira...

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. --- Although some scholars have speculated that Shakespeare wrote portions of The Tempest at an earlier stage in his career, most literary historians assign the entire play a composition date of 1610 or 1611. ... (or, in Elizabethan terms: What is man?) ...

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The creation of the terms offered society a means to distinguish people: in relation to the way in which they had sex. ... The identifiable "perversion" terms that had been created, Foucault insisted society followed as standards and models. ... Arthur Schnitzel is often known as Freud's "literary disciple" passionate investigations into the human soul. ...

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