List of literary movements From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This is a list of modern literary movements: that is‚ movements after the Renaissance. These terms‚ helpful for curricula or anthologies‚ evolved over time to group certain writers who are often loosely related. Some of these movements (such as Dada and Beat) were defined by the members themselves‚ while other terms (the metaphysical poets‚ for example) emerged decades or centuries after the periods in
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Michael Pozzuoli English AP Mrs. Birr March 14‚ 2011 Flannery O’Connor and Jonathan Swift: Masters of Irony The adage says that “history repeats itself.” Criticisms of today’s society apply to societies that came centuries before. Satires from the 18th century criticize political events happening in the 20th Century. Many techniques of satire also transcend time. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales‚” which many accept as the first modern satire‚ is laden with irony. Irony is “the expression
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Miguel De Cervantes The son of a deaf surgeon‚ Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in 1547. He became a soldier in 1570 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto. Captured by the Turks in 1575‚ de Cervantes spent five years in prison. He was freed in 1580 and returned home. De Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years‚ publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605. He died in 1616. For nearly his entire life‚ Miguel de Cervantes struggled financially. His father
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against‚ 4 her directly in the head causing instant death‚ insisting that the murder was totally planned. Six years after the incident‚ has not found the culprit. Stanley Albaitero Francisco murdered in El Charco de las Ranas Restaurant in Mexico City. Jorge Gil‚ Pablo Hernandez and Lourdes Hernández was also injured. Among the suspects stated Mario Bezares from a crime of passion with his wife‚ the revenge of drug trafficking‚ a problem of passionate and professional conflict as causes of homicide. Paco
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Magic realism Magic realism (or magical realism) is a literary genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting. As used today the term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous. The term was initially used by German art critic Franz Roh to describe painting which demonstrated an altered reality‚ but was later used by Venezuelan Arturo Uslar-Pietri to describe the work of certain Latin American writers. The Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (a friend of Uslar-Pietri)
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Hum 241: Major Works of Short Fiction Instructor: Kelly Brewer Spring 2013 Course Description: This course examines some major works of short fiction. While the course is intended to be a close reading of a number of short stories‚ we will also analyze and discuss the social and cultural commentaries which these literary pieces make. To this end we will pay close attention to the pieces as literary texts and get into sustained interpretations‚ nuances and subtleties. Course Requirements:
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August Wilson: Poet‚ Playwright‚ and So Much More August Wilson is a man who‚ outside of the theatrical world‚ is not very well known. Yet there are those‚ like Paul Carter Harrison‚ who would rank him in "the same ’artistic continuum’ as Langston Hughes‚ Toni Morrison‚ and Thelonius Monk."1 When I began research on August Wilson I asked myself‚ so what? So what if he’s won awards and recognition? What has he done to merit them? What makes this man important enough to do a research paper
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The Detective Novel English 857-005‚ Spring 2013 Tue‚ Thu 2:00 pm - 3:20 pm The Course The detective novel is probably the most popular of all literary forms‚ and it has spread to virtually every part of the world. This course analyzes the global travels of this genre‚ considering the different permutations of the form in the different societies where it has prospered. Over the course of the semester‚ students will
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Cited: Borges‚ Jorge Luis. "The Garden of Forking Paths." The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. J. Paul Hunter‚ Alison Booth‚and Kelly J. Mays. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2002.
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Samuel Lopes | Março 2011 Caso – Shoot the dog: bye-bye AIBO Q: A que segmentos se dirigem o AIBO‚ o Pleo e outros robots animais? Quem lhe parece que serão os compradores? R: Na minha perspectiva‚ no caso do Aibo os segmentos são: famílias (com médio-‐alto poder financeiro) com filhos
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