Many students going to college feel they "already know enough English to get on in the world without studying more - especially literature" (Watson). ... The study of literature allows people to extract important ideas from stories, and acquire insights into human nature more quickly than they could through first hand experience. ... If the study of literature is abandoned, it is likely that students will lose the skills that support critical thought, the precise use of language and the skills required to create sound arguments. ... If it were not for the study of literature, many of tod...

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Literature Literature is everything that has ever been written. Literature is more than just printed words. ... There are two types of literature, fiction and non-fiction. By examining the literature itself, the readers, and the writers, one can note the differences and similarities in the two types of literature In the poem, "A Study of Reading Habits," Philip Larkin talks of being unhappy both in his home and at school. ...

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Mario Vargas Llosa's essay "Why Literature?" ... He also states that literature must be radical, rebellious, and extreme to be considered great, and that only those who share in this spirit can truly enjoy literature. ... In fact, there are no exact criteria on which literature can be judged, and for that matter, no exact mold that a reader of great literature would fit. ... It includes amazing uses of rhetorical devices and is a complex study of family dynamics, yet it has no message of a rebellious or adverse nature. ... Literature was not written for one type of person. ...

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The Study of English in Schools The study of English should be considered less a scientific study of language and more like an art form to be appreciated. ... Unfortunately, the books that were reading assignments last year were required to be dissected chapter by chapter, ruining the flow and magic of what I considered to be good literature. ... For instance, in Novel Study we would read a chapter, then stop and thoroughly analyze that section of the book. ... Thus, I ended up putting less effort into the "study" of the book. ... Literature is all about relationships in our world - ima...

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Being physically weak Brown was very strong in his studies. ... By the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to Alexander Wilcox to study law. ... At age 22 he had decided to completely give law up and devote his time to literature. ... He was not only the first person in America who ventured to pursue literature as a profession, but almost the first to make an attempt in the field of imaginative writing, disconnected with the advocacy of any question of national or local interest." ...

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Most students think, study, and write in the way they have been trained at school and university. ... When a student trained in one cultural tradition moves, as u are planning to move, to study in another country, a different style of learning is often necessary. A way of understanding the problems a student from another culture can face in moving to a Western tertiary system is to consider the case of an Indonesian postgraduate student who was writing her thesis on Indonesian literature. ... In the first chapter the student had recounted the personal life of the author she was studying. ...

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Burgess attended Xaverian College and Manchester University, where he studied literature and the English language before graduating in 1940. ... Although he spent most of his time studying music, all of his studies in the English language and also literature helped to influence him to become a writer. ...

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Before 6 months of finishing her studies, she decided to pursue a literary career so she then went to New York. ... "Harper Lee did not live to see her 50th birthday, but her remarkable novel which continued the best traditions of the American authors who wrote about America's South - Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell and many others - will forever belong in the treasure of progressive American literature." ...

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There are many creative authors for children and adult books today. Some authors are known quite well, as to others who don't get as much recognition. Many writers don't start writing until they are older, as opposed to others who pick up a pen at a very young age.There are so many things to discus...

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One could argue that it can be somewhat illogical for a writer's work to hold great weight in society if the said individual has not had any exposure to the thousands of years of literature before them. ... By no means is it unlikely for equally great scholars of our time to emerge, but it is much more improbable for these people to have innovative ideas isolated from studying the knowledge and texts of our predecessors. Although my process of learning reading comprehension was completed years ago, this course taught me how to read literature rhetorically, and why it is so important. ... ...

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Without Conrad's influence, these images would not have been as vivid - a demonstration of the healthy role of the author within literature. ... This, in his opinion was the time whereby the distinction between what he calls an "author" - whose responsibly is to "support literature as a failed commitment" , and a "writer", regarded as the "intellectual", first came about. ...

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FRANCIS BACON "Of Studies" (1625) Francis Bacon was a philosopher and a politician who came from a noble family, and would also become nephew by marriage to William Cecil, 1st Minister of Queen Elizabeth then. ... What would make Bacon so influential in literature would be his essays. ... This essay ("Of Studies", 1625) is the remake of the former version, which had been written by him in 1597. ... It is clear that we are before an empiricist's essay when we notice that everything is related to experience; for instance: line 3 "those that are learned", "expert men" (= men of ex...

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Katherine O"Flaherty Chopin The Life and Literary Works Literature is often used as a devise to express opinions and ideas that are socially unacceptable. ... At this point, Chopin was taken out of the Sacred Heart School to study under her great-grandmother out of their home. ... Chopin loved to read and had an interest in literature since childhood. ... She was buried in Calvary Cemetery two days later (Toth, 243) Kate Chopin wrote some of the most powerful pieces of literature of the nineteenth century. ...

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Cultural Poetics is term Stephen Greenblatt uses in his book Renaissance Self-Fashioning, meaning the interpretation of literature as an essential element in the cultural creation of identity. ... Greenblatt claims that Spenser and Marlowe are "mighty opposites" according to his study. ...

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The biography of Phyllis Wheatley says, "Responding to early indications of intellectual precociousness in Phyllis, the Wheatley family encouraged her to study the Bible and to read English and Latin literature, history, and geography." ...

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Scholars could study and brainstorm the possible meanings and metaphors for years on end; and yet a child can read through it and understand the meaning of almost every word. ... All that is known for a fact is that this is an excellent piece of literature and an introspection into the mind of a would-be addict. ...

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English, well what is English? We all know that it is a language. But, what is the study of English? People attend English classes. This may be to learn the English Language or to learn about English literature or writing. An English lesson would teach us how to write creatively, based on fact and i...

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What determines our writing level is also attributed to the amount of literature we were exposed to at an early age. ... Deborah Brandt tells the story of two people with different economic backgrounds (one middle class Caucasian male, and one lower class Hispanic woman) that found different academic success based on the amount of technology and literature they had access to. ... In "Learning to Read" he states, "In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college....

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Obviously, you must have a thorough knowledge of the available literature to gauge your results. ... Your Abstract should be short (usually no more than 250 words) and should briefly describe what you're studying, what's been done, what you've found, and why that's interesting. ...

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Heather Zaccone Professor Shultz 12/05/03 Assignments For Writing #2 Richard Rodriguez's' The Achievement of Desire is a story self-identity and culture. Having grown up with parents who remained with the traditions of their Hispanic culture, Richards's ambition to learn, and to be li...

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James Arthur Baldwin was an American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and social critic. He was born August 2, 1924 to Emma Berdis Jones. Baldwin's mother never told him the name of his biological father. Emma Jones left Baldwin's father when Baldwin was a young child because of his father's us...

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That interest in literature and writing lead him to successful and fruitful teachings for society in the present years. ... Once, they shared arguments about educating the female sex in learning, and about their abilities to study. ...

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No matter her form of writing though she is still essential to American literature even today. ... It is decided from this research of Oates biography and study of her story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" that Oates is a deeply religious person who relies heavily on God's word. ...

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