Category: Literature

  • The Different Literary Periods

    Table of Contents Romanticism Realism Symbolism Modernism Works Cited Romanticism Romanticism was a great source of inspiration for French literature. It brought to birth the use of strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience staging its focus on these emotions as horror fright and trepidation. Romanticism to a great respect pays tribute to…

  • “Twenty-five Years in the Black Belt” by William James Edwards

    William J. Edwards lived in Snow Hill, Wilcox County in Alabama. Williams’ mother married his father in 1864 and bore three children, two boys and a girl. William was born on 12 September 1869 and was the youngest. Poor education, injustice, and ignorance towards the laws of land were the causes of problems to the…

  • Following the Steps of Christabel: Do You Believe in Vampires?

    Table of Contents The Story Untold: Coleridge and his Creation Feeding Vampires: Mother and Her Daughter Drawing the Line between a Victim and a Seducer A Witch or a Child? Conclusion Works Cited The Story Untold: Coleridge and his Creation The story of pride and pain, the story told with the stifled sobbing and interrupted…

  • Can Literature “Tell the Truth” Better than other Arts or Areas of Knowledge?

    Table of Contents Thesis statement Analytical part Conclusion References Footnotes Thesis statement One of the most striking characteristics of post-industrial living is the fact that currently dominant socio-political and cultural discourses grow increasingly marginalized, in intellectual sense of this word. In its turn, this explains why, as time goes on, more and more people are…

  • Henry David Thoreau: Modern Literary Canon

    Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Henry David Thoreau was born in the year 1817 in Concord Massachusetts where he grew up. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837. Between 1835 and 1836, he was a teacher in Canton a school in Massachusetts. He contracted tuberculosis in 1835 and which finally caused…

  • Wyeth’s Contribution to Rawlings’s winning novel The Yearling

    Rawlings’s The Yearling is A Pulitzer’s price winning novel, one of the most popular works disclosing a challenging and difficult life of the boy called Jody coming of age. At the end of the nineteenth century, the story describes one year from life of a twelve-years-boy and his experience of living in the backwoods with…

  • Toeing the Line between Norm and Abnormality: Who’s Fat?!

    Table of Contents Introduction Paving the Road with Good Intentions Down with the Norm! Conclusion Works Cited Introduction As the plot of the story unwinds in front of the reader, there is only a single thought throbbing in the reader’s head, the pity for the leading character. However, there is mote than merely the conflict…

  • Langston Hughes’ I, Too, Sing America and Nikki Giovanni’s Ego Tripping: Analysis of Two Poems

    Table of Contents Introduction Background Thesis Summary of the Two Poems Versification of the Two Poems: A Comparison Literary Elements in the Two Poems: A Comparison Conclusion Works Cited Introduction James Langston Hughes is regarded as one of the most prominent black writers of the early 20th century. He was born in Joplin, Missouri, on…

  • Children literature timeline paper

    Table of Contents Introduction Age The evolution of Children literature The roles of children literature in society References Introduction Many cultures have over time experienced real and dramatic changes in almost every sphere. As time elapses, people evolve. Consequently, there is a paradigm shift in the way people do things and handle various situations that…

  • Green Grass, Running Water

    Gender identity in Robert King’s Green Grass, Running Water is constantly overlapping and is developed from a native point of view. This deals majorly with the context of the invasion of the native values of communalism by the western ideologies of Christian patriarchy. The role of both men and women in the text is shown…