Along with the death of innocence occasioned by what was then heartbreakingly referred to as the War to End All Wars, the gentility of American fiction passed out of fashion by the 1920s. Those elegant writers of elegant stories like Henry James and Edith Wharton were either dead or on their way to being out ...
Within American literature, certain works stand as classics not only for the story contained within their pages, but also for the deeper social and political commentary that they make. Such is the case in Upton Sinclair’s pivotal expose of the American meatpacking industry of the early 1900’s, “The Jungle”. Aside from telling a heart-rendering tale ...
PaperBackSwap provides a convenient and inexpensive way to exchange books, but sometimes I have trouble finding quality books that are available on PaperBackSwap. Many of the brand new bestsellers are not yet available, and I do not want to waste my credits on mediocre mass paperbacks. On of my favorite genres is American historical fiction. ...
“Magical Realism” is a broadly descriptive term for a movement in fiction originally brought to prominence by the surreal works of Czech author Franz Kafka (1883-1924). In novels of this genre, the frame or surface may be conventionally realistic, but contrasting elements — the supernatural, myths, dreams and fantasy — invade the realism and change ...
Cultural criticism is a phrase that is hard to pin down an exact meaning to. There are different psychological, sociological, and literary definitions of the term, as well as the academic definition those two words might garner even without association to another field. Perhaps this is part of what makes the phrase “cultural criticism” hard ...
Kate Chopin bravely exposed an attitude of feminism to an unprepared society in her novel The Awakening. Her brilliant work of fiction was not recognized at the time because feminism had not yet become popular. Eble claimed that Chopin’s book was considered to be “Too strong a drink for moral babes and should labeled ‘poison'” ...
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