The 19th century in Western literature is one of the most significant and interesting periods of all. Many of the modern literary tendencies have derived from this formative era.Nineteenth-century literature is characterized by the Romantic movement and by the strong nationalism which was formed by French Revolution and American revolution in 18th century.Romantic movement developed as a rection to scientific and rational attitude of 18C..It was a shift from age of decorum,reason and order to Romantic
the most influential modernist writers of the 20th century. In order to demonstrate the modernist elements of Woolf’s works, two of her essays will be compared and contrasted. “Modern Fiction” and “A Room for One’s Own” are regarded as modernists texts and share feminist themes but differ in terms of focus. Despite feminism already being present in English literature at the time these works were published, Woolf displays her modernist qualities by discussing feminism in an original manner. Her approach
This essay will provide a critical analysis of an extract from George Eliot’s essay ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’. The passage under consideration is the passage in which Eliot discusses the epithet ‘Silly’ and the women novelists have not used their positions in society to the best of their abilities. Eliot believed that in the 19th century there was an enormous difference in the writing of men and women and so she wrote this essay in order to highlight the reasons for this and in order to show
Thoreau. Thoreau was not famously recognized while he was living; however, as his work matured, he was noticed more and more as a prominent writer and is now cherished by millions of readers. Thoreau's work reflected his rugged individualism and a life lived close to nature; Thoreau protested America's move from an agrarian society to the Industrial Revolution. He deeply influenced the transcendental movement and was the forefather of the subsequent style of the next generation of writers. People
THE ENDGAME OR A WAKE FOR ELECTRONIC LITERATURE? Diogo Marques (CLP-FLUC-UC) "A way a lone a last a love a long the” Finnegans Wake “The end is in the beginning and yet you go on” Endgame Discussions around electronic literature as being the end of literature or even the idea that electronic literature can be the beginning of something new seem to be a good starting point. A debate that, according to Sandy Baldwin and Rui Torres are the reflex of eschatological views that “imply too much teleology
Introduction As Second Life is a virtual world game where the borders of the real world and fiction are blurred, between art and culture, economy and high culture. Thus making Second Life a valid and clear characteristic of Postmodernism. A descriptive essay is drawn on the point that second life is a clear distinction in Postmodernism. The essay discusses modernization, post modernization, and the core characteristics of Post modernization such as Reflexive Post modernization, Implosion, Aestheticism
development and significant social change, but literature and literary criticism were stagnant. Victorian prudery and the old-fashioned concerns with moral and social values came to be regarded as obstacles in the way of literary and critical development. Writers desired earnestly a positive approach to literary problems. Allied to this desire was the revolt, in nearly all critical camps, against academic over-emphasis upon the background and environment of literature and concentration upon the author instead
re and ideology Literature, broadly speaking is a body of written works. The name is used traditionally to refer those artistic works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors. Literature can be categorized further according to a variety of forms, contents, structures, systems, language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter. It is therefore important to see what literature is. literature in its definition tend to be circular. The 11th edition of
why one reads, reading literature always affects readers in terms of opinions, knowledge, imagination, interests and much more. Therefore, reading may be regarded as an action that helps readers improve themselves. Still, the question remains, whether reading only causes self-improvement, or if the opposite is also the case. A summary and discussion of Harold Bloom’s and Rita Felski’s arguments will follow, in order to be able to answer this question at the end of this essay. In the prologue of
in his book Leavis exalts Leavi’s poetry-criticism above his fiction-criticism. But, as we have seen, Leavis’s inclination lies in fiction-criticism. He judges the poets especially by the principle of life, and, as a consequence, fiction above poetry. As he is a moral critic, he mostly exalts life above language. Moreover, he annihilates the distinction of genre when he praises the novelists as poets and their novels as dramatic poems. He regards the novels like The Europeans, Silas Marner and Hard