Hemingway, Papa Hemingway, later in his carreer decided he needed to interupt his novel to describe a grand way of writing, a tutorial for how a short story should be written. Ernest Hemingway began his carreer with a novel called The sun Also Rises. Fitzgerald always talked about the rights and wrongs of writing and ...
The feminist movement in the world of literature has had a past made up of struggles to be heard by the male-dominated mainstream and attempts to retrace the past to find over-looked texts that had been previously ignored. Women writers from all over the world have taken part in this struggle. It was not until ...
For decades women have used literature as a way of expressing their feelings on the inequality and unfair expectations imposed on them by society. Through novels, essays, poems and other literary works, female writers were able to convey the sentiments of countless other women at a time when they were unable to voice their opinions. ...
The term Cultural Materialism in literary theory and cultural studies was made current in 1985 when it was used by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield who developed a methodology which included an analysis of any historical material (including literature) within a politicized framework. The four characteristics of their method concerning Cultural Materialism are: Historical context ...
Industry and the urbanization of the American landscape had taken a stronghold by the early twentieth century. By the 1950s and 1960s, technology formed the American way of life. The union of man’s technological inventions with an American wilderness is metaphorically represented in Wallace Stevens’s poem, “Anecdote of the Jar.” The poem contains a modern ...
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 ...
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” This quote by Umberto Eco could be a concise introduction to his highly influential work in semiotics, aesthetics, linguistics, and his ...
DON’T: Don’t write the same things everyone else writes. I recently had a conversation with a professor on the admissions committee at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I had applied to the School’s Master of Fine Arts Writing Program, and she called me on a Sunday night to give me a surprise ...
Say the name Sigmund Freud and the first thing that should come to mind is a patient lying on a couch in a psychiatrist’s office. Interestingly, Sigmund Freud’s seminal works and theories are almost rarely used in the world of psychiatry today, as least not in any pure, undiluted sense. Freud’s theories remain at the ...
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