Lawrence in this essay is to deconstruct the metaphorical hierarchies that he establishes to define the novel and that should be done strictly in terms of the specific context of the specific places in which they appear. ... Immediately upon making this metaphor, however, he adds a supplementary metaphor that would seem to contradict it, pointing out the irreconcilability of his original metaphorical terms. ... Austin's terms, self-consciously performative (those that are not subject to classifications of "true" or "false" because they act out entirely personal propositions) rather than c...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Faulkner initially started out in literature with poetry. ... Hamblin, "Not only did Phil Stone attempt to purchase many of the little magazines and obscure volumes of "modern" poetry" that were appearing in the teens and early twenties, but he was also able to readily make available to Faulkner the resources of the Stone family library. " Faulkner gained his humorous writings from popular authors such as Mark Twain. ... According to Warren, "It is important, I think, that Faulkner's work be regarded not in terms of the South against the North, but in terms of issues which are common to o...

• Word Count: 1548
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... Meaning of Title: The title of the novel Another Country stipulates two explicit terms: love and racism. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Within lyric poetry, drama, and fiction, the greatest works are selected on aesthetic aesthetic grounds; other books are picked for their reputation or intellectual eminence together with aesthetic value of a rather narrow kind: styles, composition, general force of presentation are the usual characteristics singled out. ... In practice, we get automatic and unprofessional accounts of these authors in terms of their specialty. ...

• Word Count: 660
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

James Baldwin is considered one of the most important African American writer of novels, poetry, short stories and essays, as well as a civil right activist. ... According to Brooke Horvath, Baldwin "desires to succeed on the basis of literary style and the humanity of his characters rather than in terms of successful polemic" (207). ... He explores Baldwin's call to the pulpit, his religious crisis, his coming to terms with his homosexuality, and his responses to the Civil Rights Movement, black nationalism, and the conflicts between Jews and blacks in Harlem (239). ... We ca...

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• Has Bibliography

One must not think that Golding did not go unchanged from the war, because analysis of his pre-war poetry shows a much softer, more forgiving Golding. ... "Golding's hallmark: a polarity expressed in terms of a moral tension (Dick 121)." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Lawrence is a writer who excites great passions - which is entirely appropriate, since that is how he wrote. He is the first really great writer to come from the (more or less) working class, and much of his work deals with issues of class, as well as other fundamentals such as the relationships bet...

• Word Count: 1985
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate