Literature
Long before Sputnik 1 became humankind's first orbiting spacecraft in 1957 and before the first astronauts landed on the Moon in 1969, science fiction and science fact writers provid...
Read more
Literature
The Civil War, and the ideological passions that led to armed hostility, dominate American war literature of the nineteenth century. Yet for all the drama of this great national conflict, t...
Read more
Literature, World War II
Writers have long drawn on the experiences of war to examine themes such as race, power, democracy, and human behavior under conditions of stress. Partly through addressing th...
Read more
Computers and Literature
Computers have affected human society as few other inventions in the past century have. As literature generally tends to reflect the nature and self-image of the society that ...
Read more
Science, Technology, and Literature
The ethical implications of science and technology found in literaturre are varied and often implicit as well as explicit. A beginning survey may reasonably inclu...
Read more
War and Peace in American Literature
American Literature Introduction
War and peace have been fundamental characteristics of the American nation since the first explorers and settlers arrived on its s...
Read more
In The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Indian and Chinese ancient histories are shown to share several distinct similarities. "As in China... civilization in India appears to have begun in a ...
Read more
My Philosophy of Teaching Literature
Studying literature is important it has the potential to open a window to wisdom, and give insight into the basic aspects of the human condition. Initially...
Read more
Style in Literature
To English teachers style is one of the most important elements of a novel, but the word style is very vague and has no definite meaning. Sometimes I wonder if they just made up t...
Read more
Deadly viruses surround the human population all over the globe waiting for the right condition to destroy the human race. The average human being may only know about three or four of these major vir...
Read more
They feasted upon it. They thirsted for it. Society looked down on them for it, but these women remained honey mad, remained desperate for salvation in flavor, and craved salvation in indulgence. C...
Read more
1. Why is it significant that the Pueblo tradition of story telling makes no distinction between types of stories, such as historical, sacred, or just plain gossip"
2. Discuss the distinctive qualiti...
Read more
I imagine being taken away from daily life and being thrown into a fantasy world. I picture myself being thrown into a story with a fictional character that has a similar background. I fantasize abou...
Read more
When in the course of reading a book, it is inevitable that one may come across an outstanding connection between the book and themselves. In one of Charles Dickens's icon novels, Great Expectations, ...
Read more
Franz Kafka once said, "If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us." Kafka emphasizes how literat...
Read more
A lot of people embark on a journey to gain the reward at the destination of their journey whether its money, fame or something that is very desirable to obtain. However, the reward for a lot of peopl...
Read more
Webster defines a quest as "the act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search." Victorians seemed to like the idea of a quest and often based their works on a quest. Lord Tennyson, R...
Read more
Over the last four weeks we have been studying the Area of Study, `Journeys'. During that time we have looked at many different sources which contain the theme of journey. Although many of the sources...
Read more
A journey can be defined as a course of travel from one place to another. However, during a journey, some sort of transformation is always obtained. This alteration can be spiritual, corporal and even...
Read more
Literature is creative writing of recognized artistic value. Literature represents the very best of human expression. We read and celebrate Literature for many reasons. A few of these reasons are,- to...
Read more
A classic is usually described by people as a well known and original form of art (i.e.; novel or film) that moved or progressed society in it's time or perhaps another. Other times a classic is perc...
Read more
The role of the writer is to expand the thoughts of individuals, to have them look at something familiar and walk a way with a different opinion, to write a dream or to believe in something so much th...
Read more
The postwar era (1945-1960) was one of the most thriving years of the world especially in America and Britain. Wartime savings were fueled, constructive business conditions at all levels advanced beca...
Read more
The definition of literature has been discussed and argued over time and there is no precise answer to be given. Any reader or author can define literature as whatever they wish it to be defined as....
Read more
"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the finding into a unity" argues a British writer and critic, Rebecca West. Using this definition of the expression "literature" it c...
Read more
Literature
Literature
Computers and Literature
Science, Technology, and Literature
War and Peace in American Literature
