greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. He was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. In his lifetime he wrote nine plays‚ one novel‚ and numerous poems‚ short stories‚ and essays. Among his work the most popular and well-known are “The Picture of Dorian Gray”‚ “The Importance of Being Earnest”‚ “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”. Wilde was a proponent of the Aesthetic movement‚ which emphasized aesthetic values more than moral or social themes. This doctrine is most clearly summarized in the phrase ’art for
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Intro. When he walks down the street‚ there are stares. When he walks into his church‚ there are scoffs. When he walks into his job‚ there are questions. The man has several body modifications; a bridge piercing‚ ¾ inch ears‚ and a small star tattoo under his left cheek. Does this deem a man dangerous and loathsome? Or is he the embodiment of personal expression? Body modifications stand as an art form because of its expressive and aesthetic properties and its social statement against mainstream
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Meghan McEwan The film 500 Days of Summer we see a developing relationship between the two main characters Tom and Summer. Some might deny that this is a love story because it doesn’t have your typical happy ending‚ but none the less it is a love story with a lot to say about relationships and the types of love that are evolved during it. This relationship starts out illustrating how both of the characters view life and love. Tom is described as a hopeless romantic in the beginning of the film
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Period 1660-1700 The Restoration 1700-1745 The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) 1745-1785 The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) 1785-1830 The Romantic Period 1832-1901 The Victorian Period 1848-1860 The Pre-Raphaelites 1880-1901 Aestheticism and Decadence 1901-1914 The Edwardian Period 1910-1936 The Georgian Period 1914- The Modern Period 1945- Postmodernism The Old English Period‚ or the Anglo-Saxon Period‚ extended from the invasion of Celtic England by Germanic tribes
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The Woodspurge The wind flapped loose‚ the wind was still‚ Shaken out dead from tree and hill; I had walked on at the wind’s will – I sat now‚ for the wind was still. Between my knees my forehead was – My lips‚ drawn in‚ said not Alas! My hair was over in the grass‚ My naked ears heard the day pass. My eyes‚ wide open‚ had the run Of some ten weeds to fix upon; Among those
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and dates on a timeline. The second part is that the Iliad and the Odyssey were both written three to five hundred years after the Trojan war. Historians believe this because Homer was a Dorian and when they invaded Greece‚ they couldn’t read or write. The Trojan War happened around a hundred years after the Dorians came into town and that is not enough time to learn to be literate. Homer would’ve came into the picture hundreds of years later‚ learned about the Trojan War and created the pieces out
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_ASSIGNMENT_ _QUESTION: DISCUSS THE THREE STAGES AS PROPOUNDED BY SHOWALTERIN ’THE FEMALE TRADITION ’‚ FOCUSING ON THE SHIFTS THAT TAKE PLACE IN EACH PHASE. ALSO DISCUSS ANY TWO CRITIQUES OF HER ESSAY._ ANSWER:In her book ’A Literature of Their Own ’‚ Showalter attempts to rediscover the lost Atlantis of female writingfrom the archives of British literary history‚ for which she tries to assemble women ’s writing of that period into a linear developmental process dividing it into three phases
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STRUCTURALISM-GERARD GENETTE. Centre for Post –Graduate Studies Prof.S.Jayaraman & Research in English‚ email:jayaraman121@gmail.com Muslim Arts College‚ Thiruvithancode-629174. How does Gerard Genette view the nature of literary criticism? (Or) Elucidate the views of Gerard Genette on the nature of literary criticism. Gerard Genette is one of the most important literary theorists of the 20th century. He was very much influenced by the
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emotions within the listener. For instance‚ the sixth mode had characteristics that were thought to induce sloth. [+] Show Editor Comments [-] Hide Editor Comments Write out a number when it begins a sentence‚ regardless of size. Ionian and Dorian Ionian and Dorian modes use the first two degrees in the major scale to
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In the New Merriam-Webster Dictionary a speech community is defined as a socially distinct group that develops a dialect; a variety of language that diverges from the national language in vocabulary‚ pronunciation‚ and grammar. Gumperz‚ Dorian‚ Fishman‚ Labov‚ Hymes‚ and Corder helped define a speech community. This essay will touch on the basis of multiple aspects of a speech community depending on their similarities and differences as well as how the concepts of these speech communities relate
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