know it. * Sentimentalism is another word for Romanticism‚ which translates to writing through emotional. * Implausible Plots * Subjective literature=romanticism: from the mind of the writer. * A construction of Good vs. Evil * Herman Millville: Moby Dick: was not written for your head; it was written for your heart. * Monsters=evil‚ ex. Frankenstein’s Monster * Strange and faraway places * No complex characters=flat characteristics * Scarlet letter: woman marries
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*****Books and Authors***** Books by Award Winning Authors Books by Nobel Laureates Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali Gora Gardner The Post Office Hungry Stones The King of Dark Chamber The Home and the World Chandalika VS Naipaul In a Free State A Bend in the River An Area of Darkness The Mystic Masseur India: A Million Mutinies Now Amartya Sen The Argumentative Indian Growth Economics The Idea of Justice On Economic Inequality Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
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1. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 2. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 3. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 4. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 5. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 6. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 7. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 8. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 9. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 10. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 11. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 12. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 13. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
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The European Background to American Literary Realism Three of the great literary movements of nineteenth-century America were romanticism (approximately 1820-1865)‚ realism (1865-1890)‚ and naturalism (1890 into the twentieth century). All three of these movements (also known as historical genres) originated in Europe roughly thirty years before they came to America. Realism began in France‚ in the works of Balzac and‚ later‚ Flaubert‚ as a reaction against the libertarian excesses of romanticism
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based off of the American dream is “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener”‚ where it explains the importance of achieving the American dream in America. The author Herman Melville even uses this work to motivate Americans to work harder to achieve their dreams by offering them a sense of what will happen if they don’t work hard towards the American dream. Melville emphasizes that not achieving the American dream will only lead to failure in America and would be a disgrace for them. From all of these instances of
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Postcolonial Nations‚ Islands‚ and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist questionnaires it exposes the ways in which nationalism relies on fictions of insularity and intactness‚ which the island and island tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the ideal replica of the nation‚ and tourist practices promise
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Charles Dickens‚ but there were many other significant writers‚ including the Brontë sisters‚ and then Thomas Hardy‚ in the final decades of the 19th century.The Americans began to produce major writers in the 19th century‚ including novelist Herman Melville‚ author of Moby Dick (1851) and the poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Another American‚ Henry James‚ was a major
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The life of an artist stems from the originality of their art; however‚ sometimes the public does not understand or appreciate the art the artist dedicated wholeheartedly to. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka explored the ambition of an artist to achieve a feat no one had ever accomplished before‚ but instead of receiving admiration from the spectators the artist is faced with a cold response. The hunger artist used fasting as a form of artistic endeavor for his own liking‚ but the art is soon turned
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darkness and insanity. As the son of traveling performers‚ Poe was abandoned to the horrors of the world at a young age. Poe is generally regarded as the father of American Gothic Literature‚ an example to such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. The stories that Poe inscribed are prevalent in modern times‚ creating genres such as horror films and science fiction movies. "The Cask of Amontillado" is one of Poe ’s most memorable short stories‚ that epitomizes the American Gothic Literature
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Declaration of Independence On June 28‚ 1776 a draft of the Declaration of Independence(1) was presented to the Continental Congress by a committee led by Thomas Jefferson‚ who had worked on the document over the preceding fifteen days. In a little over two weeks Jefferson had created the most important political text in the modern history of the Western world. Not only did it bring into existence the most powerful political and economic force of the last century‚ but it defined a nation and
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