Aspects of Literary History: Spring and Summer Terms 2008 Aspects of Literary History course‚ convenor: Dr Alistair Davies [B331] [H.A.Davies@sussex.ac.uk] Welcome to the Aspects of Literary History course. This is an ambitious course with a number of separate but interwoven strands: 1) The course will introduce you to some of the key concepts of literary history. 2) The course will enact literary history by examining the history of a particular mode of writing from its
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Task 1: Term 1: Visual Imagery: Is the use of vivid or figurative language to represent images‚ objects‚ actions or ideas. In the poem Driving to Town Late Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly‚ the author uses Visual Imagery to describe the view of the day. When Bly uses “It is a cold and snowy night. The main street is deserted” (1)‚ we can picture it as if we were with the speaker driving around on a lonely and cold day. Visual Imagery is important to this piece of literature because it allows us
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A Literary Analysis on Flanner O ’Connor ’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Written by ShaLynn M. Andrews Flannery O ’Connor ’s short story‚ “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is about a Georgia family on their way to Florida for a vacation and the day ending in disaster and murder. The story opens with the grandmother‚ also being the main character‚ trying to convince her son‚ Bailey‚ not to go to Florida; she had just read an article about a recently escaped convict‚ the Misfit‚ who was supposedly heading
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Literary Critic In the story‚ “So I Ain’t No Good Girl” written by Sharon Flake‚ I felt the characters weren’t very developed causing the plot to be thrown off a little. The main character of this story is just a typical young girl with many boy problems. Although the character’s name is never stated‚ you can tell she has many weaknesses‚ she also surprisingly has quite a few strengths as well. There are many things going on with the characters in the story‚ some things I wasn’t so pleased with
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The Crucible is composed of different types of imagery. These can be broken off into color‚ emotion‚ and setting. They all affect one another. Arthur Miller uses imagery to help add to the overall impact of the play. It gives The Crucible a distinctive style. Arthur Miller uses a term known as color to help add a certain mood to the play. The town of Salem‚ to me‚ doesn’t seem too bright. He paints a picture of this really gloomy town. On page 4‚ it mentions " but we today would hardly
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better than if someone else did it. Every image in the book was carefully thought out in order to help the reader get the most out of them. One image in particular that has lots of imagery is the image of 3 men sitting around a campfire on the bottom row of page 19. The image of the men sitting around a fire has lots of imagery. The Image has a background of white rolling hills with black as the sky. Also in the background are 5 tents and half of a horse. In the foreground three men are sitting around
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with major situations in the play. These characteristics combined make an impacting and memorable part of the book. One of these is in Book 11‚ lines 233-256. I noted this part because of its strong use of poetic language‚ and the many literary elements in it that make it a very striking few stanzas. Firstly‚ the part I chose was when Odysseus went to the Kingdom of the Dead and met his mother. There was a quite a lot of repetition when Odysseus described the time when he wanted
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Literary Analysis: Terms Many literature students are expected to be familiar with the basic terms listed below (and discussed in more depth in your text). Keep this study guide with your text. At the beginning of each reading assignment‚ write the elements of literature pertaining to the particular type of literature at the beginning of the short story or poem. After reading‚ define them in your text for class discussion‚ quizzes‚ and test preparation. To understand literature‚ it is necessary
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nobody. Everything dark and doorless. Turning and turning among these corners which lead forever to the street where nobody waits for‚ nobody follows me‚ where I pursue a man who stumbles and rises and says when he sees me: nobody. Poem Analysis 1. The poem “The Street”‚ by Octavio Paz describes an incident in which the narrator is walking down a street and feels as if someone is following only to discover that it is “nobody”. 2. The tone of this poem is‚ lonely. This tone is exemplified
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Rochester’s poems is inevitably a reflection of the historical rake…That he delighted in projecting an image of himself is also clear (Griffin 1973: 21) This study aims to find out how Rochester has been related to his poetry and what consequences these relations have had for how we read his poetry. The most important editors‚ biographers and critical scholars of Rochester through the years will be explored as these scholars have contributed to the reconstruction of Rochester for the modern reader. Nilbett
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