I will draw information from the large body of Hemingway literary criticism, his fiction, and the authors own comments on the craft of writing. ... It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that, in a way, puts other great works of literature to shame". ... Hemingway knows how not only to make words be specific but how to arrange a collection of words which shall betray a great deal more than is to be found in the individual parts"." ... As we will discuss at length further down, Hemingway drew a great deal of his style and influence from his time at the Kan...

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Yes, letting the audience know that I the author am human, and not some robotic regurgitation of nonsensically complicated vocabulary and syntax, is very important as well. ... I hoped to be an author, but I had quit writing for fun, resorting instead to TAAS practice and assigned writing with great fervor, hoping that in formal writing I would find inspiration enough to write another book. ...

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The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of life and the patterns that society are prone to following. This brought about curiosity and the religious affiliated explanations were no longer sufficient. The dissatisfaction for many, and believing mindlessly in something with no real evidence was intolerable. Society's ...

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Pulitzer Prize winning contemporary author Rick Bragg builds upon the powerful legacy of other southern writers, such as Eudora Welty and William Faulkner, but with a style all his own, making his real-life stories of growing up poor in Alabama poignant and often humorous. ... I will begin with a section about the author himself and later include a section about his methods of writing and teaching creative writing to college students. ... About the Author Born on July 26, 1959 in Piedmont, Alabama, Rick was raised, along with his two brothers, in a life of poverty. ... He adds that the histor...

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• Grade Level: High School