Poe has played a major impact in literature and television as we know it today by being the founder of the detective fiction genre, his unique use of irony and symbolism, implementing satire and bestowing hoaxes, which led to literature and the lifestyle we know today. ... One of the most well-known fictional characters in literature is the famous Sherlock Holmes. ... Throughout the novels Sherlock is faced with crimes that he must solve along with the help of his dear friend Watson, he usually does so by using logical reasoning and various disguises. ... Although a fail even the hoax has pr...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bryant is one of the first and most significant poets in America literature. He helps get the ball rolling for the Romantic period while acting as a standard for many aspiring poets for years to come. ...

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In addition, the Gothic tradition in literature, Dark Romanticism and the challenging effects this genre of writing has on human mind, whether for the writer or the reader of horror stories will be debated. ... Moreover, Poe is particularly important to the ongoing influence of the Gothic on contemporary literature, moving the genre from an external to an internal psychological focus. ... Gothic Literature The Gothic, a literary movement that focused on ruin, decay, death, terror, and chaos, and privileged irrationality and passion over rationality and reason, grew in response to the hist...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These two movements helped to define American life after the Revolutionary War in different ways, saw the rise of new ideas and literature, and gave Americans a sense of national identity that was previously unknown to them. ...

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Literature has a strange ability to force an individual to look introspectively at their own existence and to question their own qualities - to self-evaluate. ... Similarly, the odd behaviors of the unnamed main character in Mark Strand's "The Tunnel"" also lead one to conjecture the respectable and upright virtues of a character that we cannot help but to feel empathy and compassion for. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate