In  The Book of the Duchess, the poet is introduced in the first person. ... The narrator then falls asleep on his book and experiences so strange and wonderful a dream that, he says, no one on earth can properly interpret it. Not even the famous Biblical interpreter of dreams, Joseph, who read dreams for Pharaoh (see  Genesis, Book 41), nor Macrobius, the late Roman author who wrote a famous (in Chaucer's day) commentary on  Cicero's  Dream of Scipio, would have the skill to read the fantastic dream the narrator had that night. ... The Book of the Duchess, The Dream (Lines 291-...

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Coleridge thought that gothic novels provide unfathomable characters that the gothic romance authors have come up with very quickly and have not put much thought into. ... Coleridge's opinion of the novel suggests that the elements in the gothic novels were not important to its understanding as a romance novel. ... It is apparent that he has read much more than Catherine, yet he does not make her feel inferior through his attempts to limit the discussion to Gothic romances. Henry reveals that he enjoys Gothic romances as fantastic and imaginative entertainments, but does not consider th...

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He receives a part-time job at the Daily Bugle (a major newspaper that serves the greater Manhattan area in the comic book) that most teenagers would not have access to, but this is accompanied by the irony that Parker is contributing to the primary machine of hatred to his alter-ego. ... Peter Parker is an orphan who lost his father figure during adolescence, and ever since, he has encountered super villains who stand as twisted father figures as best shown by the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) who believes Parker to be his son though not in blood, which further alienates Parker as his best f...

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The story is considered to be verse romance. ... Unfortunately, even then the poem was read incorrectly as a straight-forward and very prototypical medieval romance. ... Since then, critics have steadily been writing about the poem, maintaining and proving the modern understanding that this intriguing poem is one of the best and most difficult of all medieval works (Galenet). ... He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976. ...

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In other words, instead of communicating with each other and reading a book in order to learn about something new, we turn to the television. ... Technology and the media have almost become like best friends. ... One can completely argue that yes, they are able to distinguish this difference and that the reason they buy certain products or believe certain things is because they know that that certain product is the one that is going to satisfy their specific need to the best of its ability. ...

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Another article that deals extensively with Priscilla is Allan and Barbara Lefcowitz's article "Some Rents in the Veil: New Light on Priscilla and Zenobia in The Blithedale Romance."" ... The first line of the book talks about the "Veiled Lady,"" which is, of course, Priscilla. The book begins and ends with Priscilla. Throughout the book, Priscilla rarely stands on her own. ... When Priscilla first appears at Blithedale, she is immediately described in plant imagery, looking "like a flower-shrub that had done its best to blossom in too scanty light- (26). ...

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"Cub fans under age fifty may find it hard to fathom, but there was a time when the Cubs were not thought of as perennial doormats, " David Folk writes in his book, The Cubs Reader (Fulk 1). ... The White Stockings became the first professional baseball club in the city of Chicago when the Chicago club owners assembled a team of some of the best eastern baseball players. ... Spalding, president of the White Stockings, published a book in 1911 called America's National Game. ... His overall goal with the National League though, was to be the organization that had the best baseball talent ...

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His best years in this stage were between 1840 and 1845 when he placed his stories in prestigious magazines like the American Review and Democratic Review. ... In both stories he talks about his school teaching times Also he worked in a newspaper called the New World, where one of his best friends Park Benjamin saw Whitman as an excellent candidate to write a novel, so exalted Whitman to write a novel. ... This poem recounts a romance with a woman. ... The book appeared on the fourth of July, as a kind of literary independence day. Nevertheless, the book had very poor sales. ...

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The show follows beautiful, blonde socialite, Serena Van Der Woodsen and her best friend yet sometimes rival, Blair Waldorf. ... Award-winning academic, novelist, and biographer Christopher Bigsby explores a changing America through modern television in his book "Viewing America: Twenty-First Century Television Drama." A major discussion point of Bigsby's book is the manner in which America could have a dialogue with itself through television drama. ... In her book "Sex, Love, & Romance in the Mass Media" she discusses how media creates myths and stereotypes of sex, lo...

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The quote sets the tone for the whole book. ... "Readers love it, as well they should, for in the best gothic fiction, realism and romance join forces to create a territory somewhere between this world and some other in which almost everything is slightly, deliciously over the top" (Yardley 1). It's no doubt that this book is genius. It not only was a best seller in England but in America as well. I would say this book is worth reading. ...

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Hazel's recommending her favorite book to Augustus shows that she cares about him. Augustus loves the endless book and has the same questions about how the book ends with Hazel. ... Kaitlyn Role - Foil Kaitlyn and Hazel were best friends before Hazel's illness. ... Cancer Role - Antagonist Cancer stays silence but vigilant in the book. ... Symbolism Water Water is one of the symbols in the book. ...

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It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including "The Waste Land" (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930) and "Four Quartets" (1945). ... To earn extra money, he wrote book reviews and lectured at evening extension courses. ...

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We took the name from the French "contes des fee", and the French literary fairy tales of the 17th century do feature far more fairies than the tales which are best-known today. ... Cinderella Cinderella, one of the best-known fairy tales, has over 340 variations and can be traced back as far 850-60 CE (Common Era), where a version was written down in China. ... The version told by the Brothers Grimm, ending with the Princess being awakened by the chaste kiss of the rescuing Prince, is now the best-known, the brothers having shorn the story of its elements of cannibalism, rape and ad...

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Perhaps the best example of a Vietnam War film that utilizes myths to enhance the story is Michael Cimino's 1978 release, The Deer Hunter, starring Robert De Niro. ... Cimino manipulated the stereotypical Vietnam veteran as the returned man who at best was troubled, confused, and disturbed from the war and at worst, unable to cease the killing. ...

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NO LOGO, is the product of consumer awareness, albeit far stretched in our time, Naomi produces a book divided into four major categories. ... Gary Marshall of Spike Magazine examines further, "No Logo is a book about brands, which means it's a book about popular culture - Golden Arches, the Nike "swoosh", Tommy Hilfiger jackets and Starbucks coffee. It's about the television you watch and the newspapers you read, the theme parks you visit and the films you go to see [ ] it's a book about everyday reality - or, rather, what lies behind it." ... , but "How best can I steer you...

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Works Cited "The book is unique. ... Women writers were expected to write the kinds of novel which George Eliot was condemn in an essay as Silly Novels by Lady Novelists -the sub genres of romance, fantasy and sensation. ... Consequently, she became one of the best writers in English literature. ...

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This quote is from the first scene in the book where Peter and Wendy have just met each other. ... The way that Barrie described Wendy in the book suggested that she was not a little girl, throughout the book every description of her makes her seem so mature and nurturing to Peter. ... The very end of the book is where the "love affair" between Peter and Wendy comes to an end. ... To me, this was like their week of romance together. ...

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Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. ... He immigrated to Canada via England in 1962, Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. ... In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp. ... "Only the best art can order the chaotic tumble of events. Only the best can realign chaos t...

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Humour is employed in a variety of ways in Catch-22 and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Heller and De Bernieres uses the same background theme; However, though contrasts are apparent in their portrayal of war, their use of humour is employed differently also. In Catch-22, the humour is interwoven t...

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James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are influenced by her and Virginia Woolf said that  "Richardson has invented, or, if she has not invented, developed and applied to her own uses, a sentence which we might call the psychological sentence of the feminine gender" ("Romance and the Heart"). James Joyce's Ulysses is another well-known example of stream of consciousness technique and the book has eighteen chapter but last chapter has a significant usage of this technique. ... On Victorian Era, there are guides book for women which tells how to act, prepare food, drees up and take...

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First of all, Gatsby patterns his role model provided by the traditional romance. ... His resentment of his humble birth and the poverty-stricken family and his resolution to attain for himself wealth and refined tastes are revealed in the schedule found in the book he read when he was a boy. ... He cannot help fancying about Daisy's "more beautiful and cool bedroom "(155) where Daisy sleeps and the "gay and radiant activities taking place through the corridors and the romances"(155). ...

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Erik Erikson Today, the American psychoanalyst, Erik Erikson is best known as the "Architect of Identity", and the "Father of Psychosocial Development". ... The information that he collected from these studies were what made up his first book, Childhood and Society, published in 1950. ... Those themes, the influence of culture on personality, and the analyses of historical figures, were repeated in other works of his such as Ghandi's Truth, which one him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award (Sharkey, 1999). ... Directly after publishing his first book in 1950, Erikson left h...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman is best known for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, (1892) which is based on her own experience As the story begins, the woman-whose name we never learn tells of her depression and how it is being treated by her husband and brother who are both doctors. ... While Edna seeks romance as a source of happiness, she experiments with art, and as she awakens personally, she develops a deeper commitment to it. ... It is not a coincidence that last pages of the book's final chapter are dominated with the issue of motherhood. ...

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Baldwin, Siegel, and Bowker chose the name Starbucks in honor of Starbuck, the coffee-loving first mate in Herman Melville's Moby Dick and because they thought the name evoked the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders. ... The company had the best real estate team in the coffee-bar industry and a sophisticated system that enabled it to identify not only the most attractive individual city blocks but also the exact store location that was best. ... We buy the best coffee beans in the world and roast them in small batches to capture their full fla...

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He was encouraged by his father to gain strength so he joined Wood's Gym and became a very good boxer, later to become the second best light weight boxer at Harvard remembered for his skill and good sportsmanship. ... He said of the seal, "That seal, filled me with every possible feeling of romance and adventure." ... He said of corrupt republicans in the same speech, " I have small sympathy with those people who are always destroying good man and good causes because they are not the best of all possible men- He said he would recognize no party in trying to attain a better New York City...

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