Essays on Art Movements

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A Reader's Pursuit for The Perfect Book in if on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

1 page / 1257 words

The traditional structure and approach to literature is challenged in If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. For this idiosyncratic narrative, the main character is referred to as the reader, and the novel is told in the second person. Every other chapter...

Novel Postmodernism

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Drawing Important Conclusions by Comparing Reading a Novel to The Pursuit of a Woman

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In Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, we see how Calvino attempts to compare the reading of a novel to a man pursuing a woman. In this text, the reader takes on the role of a male protagonist attempting to read a...

Novel Postmodernism

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Examining Racism in if He Hollers Let Him Go

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World War II had a profound impact on American culture. Essentially every person in the country was affected in some way, but the war’s impact of African Americans was unique. Although African Americans were indeed Americans they were often treated like the enemy on the...

Novel Postmodernism

270

The Role of Style in Creating a Link Between Reader, Author, and Narrator

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So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone of the author. No. You don’t recognize it at all. But now that you think about it, who ever said this author had...

Novel Postmodernism

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Buechner’s Feeling of Innovation and Godric’s Flawed Sainthood

4 pages / 1955 words

In Godric, Frederick Buechner uses multiple characters who are at once medieval and modern to not only tell the uncommon tale of a flawed saint, but to depict through medieval text and setting his modern comments, appraisals, and beliefs about what is means to be...

Lives of The Saints Modernism Sense

272

The Issue of Class and Its Representations in Literature

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The issue of class and its representations is consistently present in society, and pervades everyday life to a significant degree, especially when considering the social dynamics of the past century; as such, it is also very prominent in literature, where it can be portrayed in...

Modernism The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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Influence of "Journey of The Magi" by T. S. Eliot

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Compared to the poetry prior to the 20th century, the poetry of T.S. Eliot rings vibrant, unconventional and inventive. Eliot’s poem “Journey of the Magi” is typical of his style and illustrates how Eliot’s poetry changed the genre forever. In its compression of image and...

Modernism Poetry T.S. Eliot

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"Dubliners" and "Kew Gardens": Modernism in Woolf's and Joyce's Works

4 pages / 1960 words

‘[T]he modern period […] begins really with the late nineteenth [century], when the sense of the passing of a major phase of English history was already in the air.’ Indeed, when we discuss ‘modern’ in terms of literature this tends to be a reference to...

Dubliners Modernism Short Story

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Evaluating Modernist and Educational Art in Greenberg's Writing

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In his essay ‘Avant-garde and Kitsch’, Clement Greenberg claims that avant-garde or modernist art is a tool to prevent the ordinary culture caused by consumerism. Also with in his essay Kitsch gained popularity. The reason of he avant-garde’s arising is to defend aesthetic standards from...

Modernism

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Family and Modernity in "The Accidental Tourist" and "Dinner at The Homesick Restaurant"

3 pages / 1532 words

Although she had a “fairly isolated childhood” (Salwak, 3), Anne Tyler’s insights about family are remarkably accurate. In two of Tyler’s books, The Accidental Tourist and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, she tells the tales of two very different families. However, the believable emotional state...

Book Review Family Relationships Modernism

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The Successes and Failures of "Couple in a Cage"

4 pages / 1753 words

Coco Fusco and Guillermo G?mez-Pe?a’s Two Undiscovered Amerindians is a bold experiment of a performance whose successes and failures stem from the same aspect of the show: its tendency to blur the lines between the audience and the performers. When Two Undiscovered Amerindians succeeds, its...

Contemporary Art Literature Review

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The Romantic Other; Edward Said’s ‘orientalism’ Applied to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘kubla Khan’

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In both his poem ‘Kubla Khan’ and its accompanying prologue Samuel Taylor Coleridge presents two ideas: the variable nature of the imagination and the beauty of the foreign and exotic. Many scholars view the story behind the poem’s composition as not only one of the...

Orientalism Poetry

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Ideological Implications of Language in Modernist Literature

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William Blake’s “Little Black Boy,” Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” James Joyce’s “The Dead” and Sarah Kane’s Blasted each demonstrate how a writer’s use of language can give us intimate access to the time period that in turn informs the writer’s choices. Made-to-order essay as fast...

Modernism

280

An Analytic Report on Bell Hooks’ "Postmodern Blackness"

4 pages / 1622 words

“Postmodern Blackness” is one of several essays that bell hooks has written. It is, by its nature, a philosophical essay in which the Afro-American writer mixes what is literary with what is racial. Hence, in it she attempts at evoking the exclusionary role that the...

Literary Criticism Postmodernism

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Postmodern View of Socioeconomy and Politics in "Absurdistan"

7 pages / 3219 words

America: a land of freedom, opportunity, and prosperity; a country that highly advocates the amalgamation of conglomerating cultures. Ironically, however, in Gary Shteyngart’s novel Absurdistan, the Russians transcend Americans in their pursuit for wealth, status, and size. The protagonist, Misha Vainberg, is a 30-year-old Russian...

American Government Literature Review Postmodernism

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Coping with The Uncontrollable in a Tale for The Time Being

2 pages / 754 words

Japanese culture differs significantly from culture in the Western world. In Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being, these differences are prevalent as Nao visits bathhouses, discovers manga, and witnesses the significance of suicide in her country. But perhaps most importantly, Nao learns...

Realism

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The Origin and Development of Modernism in Art and Literature

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Introduction The advent of Modernism in the early twentieth century marked a significant departure from established norms in art, literature, and culture. Shaped by a tumultuous period defined by cultural shocks like World War I and World War II, Modernism emerged as a response to...

Modernism Ulysses

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Romantic Exaggeration: Symbolism of Nature in German Realism

2 pages / 1002 words

Nature is an important feature of poetic realism, an offshoot of German realism in the late 19th century. Gottfried Keller, the author of the novel Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (Romeo and Juliet in the Village), is a Swiss writer who belongs to this...

Literary Criticism Realism Symbolism

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Toni Morrison's Jazz in The Postmodern Context

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Ross Murfin defines postmodernism as, “A term referring to certain radically experimental works of literature and art after World War II” (Murfin 397). According to Murfin, postmodernism, like modernism that preceded it, involves separation from dominant literary convention via the “experimentation with new literary devices,...

Jazz Postmodernism