Essays on Art Movements

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Modernism and Realism in Dani Cavallaro's "The Aesthetics"

3 pages / 1189 words

Expression and Imitation are one of the three concepts that I have selected to discuss its importance in the text and my justification of why. Expression and Imitation are two concepts that have dictated theories about the Aesthetics in the realm of Western Philosophy (Cavallaro...

Modernism Realism

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The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

3 pages / 1364 words

Designed in 1825 by William Burn, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was originally known as the John Watson School. It was intended to function as an institution for fatherless children. However it was opened as the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in...

Art History Artwork Contemporary Art

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Art from The Middle Ages to The Renaissance

5 pages / 2341 words

The transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance reflects a time of great change in the way of life at the time. During the Middle Ages life was in constant turmoil and bleak. After the Fall of the fall of the Roman Empire Europe...

Art History Italian Renaissance

270

White Flight: The Graying of Suburbia in Delillo’s White Noise

6 pages / 2811 words

In addition to addressing the premonitory electricity of death, the title of Don DeLillo’s White Noise alludes to another, subtler, sort of white noise the muted death of suburban white identity. College-on-the-Hill is not only an elite academic promontory, but also a bastion for white...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Originality and The Literary ‘readymade’ in Don Delillo’s White Noise

5 pages / 2079 words

‘Toyota Celica / A long moment passed before I realized this was the name of an automobile…The utterance was beautiful and mysterious, gold-shot with looming wonder. It was like the name of an ancient power in the sky.’ Made-to-order essay as fast as you need...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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The Postmodern World of White Noise

4 pages / 2003 words

Paula Geyh writes that “the term [postmodernism] is used by so many people in so many disparate ways, that it seems almost to mean or describe everything–and therefore, some of the critics of postmodernism would say, it means nothing” (1-2). Although the postmodern perspective is,...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

273

Reproduction and The Shattered Aura in Don Delillo’s White Noise

9 pages / 4292 words

Walter Benjamin’s work as a philosopher and theorist speaks at length of mechanical reproduction and the impact it has on society. Benjamin’s work can therefore be applied to the society depicted in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, illuminating it as one of reproduction illustrated in...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

274

Doctors as Authority Figures in White Noise

4 pages / 1636 words

In the novel White Noise, written by Don DeLillo, the Gladney family often succumbs to the supposed authority and superior knowledge of doctors. The Gladneys are extremely intimidated by the doctors and they feel as though the physicians are all-knowing and hold some kind of...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

275

Delillo’s White Noise and The Family

2 pages / 1092 words

Don Dellilo’s protagonist in his novel “White Noise,” Jack Gladney, has a “nuclear family” that is, ostensibly, a prime example of the disjointed nature way of the “family” of the 80’s and 90’s — what with Jack’s multiple past marriages and the fact that his...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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The Fragmented American Family in "White Noise"

6 pages / 2800 words

The family is the strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. (82) Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Delillo’s portrayal of the American family...

Novel Postmodernism White Noise

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Poetry Elements Come to Life

2 pages / 1033 words

In Thomas Gray’s poem, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes,” he shares a story about a cat named Selima while also teaching a lesson to readers. Even though the poem is amusing, it is written and...

Poetry Romantic Era

278

The Immortality of a Dead Cat

2 pages / 1102 words

Her beauty defied comparison. Her joy in life’s simplest pleasures endeared her to all who knew her. Her insatiable curiosity drove her to constantly explore, examine, and engage in the world around her. All these qualities make her loss seem all the more tragic. She...

Poetry Romantic Era

279

Immortality in Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

2 pages / 993 words

Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a melancholic poem that considers the possibility of immortality for the people buried in the churchyard the speaker visits. Although previous sections of the poem explore different ideas, such as the speaker’s remorse for those who...

Poetry Romantic Era

280

The Descriptive and Reflective Elements of Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey" and Gray’s "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"

3 pages / 1282 words

In his article On Reading Romantic Poetry, L. J. Swingle identifies the Romantic poet’s tendency to “think into the human heart” by using rustic description to explore “the naked dignity of man”. This analysis certainly holds true for William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey and Thomas Gray’s...

Poetry Romantic Era

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Behaving Reasonably: a Defense of Romance in Howells’s Realistic Fiction

5 pages / 2208 words

Harry T. Moore, in the afterword to William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham, says, “Much of the criticism of Silas Lapham has been directed at the love-story subplot” (345). Critics of Howells are quick to point out the Romantic elements in this otherwise...

Novel Realism

282

Analysis of a Passage in The Prelude

5 pages / 2152 words

In the stichic passage from William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem The Prelude, the speaker, who represents Wordsworth himself, encounters unfamiliar aspects of the natural world. The passage is a bildungsroman in verse, a coming-of-age poem that chronicles the psychological growth of the speaker. In the passage,...

Romantic Era Romanticism

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Romantic Poets & The Poetic Problem of Representing London

5 pages / 2195 words

Writing on nineteenth-century London poetry, William Sharpe comments that ‘Regardless of shared reference to sublimity, fog, of Babylonian blindness, each poet’s London is different. Each time we read ‘London’ we have to begin again.’ For poets in the late eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, London...

Poetry Romantic Era Romanticism

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Madness in The New York Trilogy

3 pages / 1169 words

Author Philip K. Dick once said, “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” The theme of the source of madness is explored in all three stories that form Paul Auster’s novel The New York Trilogy. The three relatively short detective stories...

Novel Postmodernism

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Gender, Identity, and Expression in 19th Century British Society

5 pages / 1596 words

Dorothy Wordsworth, poetess, diarist, and sister of William Wordsworth, a well-known Romantic author, was not recognized as a notable literary figure until well after her death in 1855. Despite her close connection with her brother, her strong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and her general...

Poetry Romantic Era