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
of modern novel, Moretti in his polemical essay attempts to outline how the literary world-system works. Here, as he emphasized in another essay in response to the following one, novels, as a literary genre, are representative of the most mobile strata of the system, not of the entire system, as an example to show the mobility of world literature. In his opinion, the study of world literature needs a collective work where the important facts of literary history be shared. In this way, his proposed
widespread dissatisfaction, both in England and America, with the contemporary literary situation. There was rapid scientific 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
The work of the Neapolitan writer Elena Ferrante has received much attention in recent years, becoming the subject of countless articles, not only in the Italian press, but also in many of the world’s most prestigious publications. Paolo di Paolo, writing for La Stampa, provides us with a succinct description of the “caso Ferrante”: “Merita perciò di essere studiato il fenomeno-Ferrante: un’autrice di cui tuttora si ignora l’identità salutata qualche settimana fa dal New Yorker come una grande artista
Allusion. A reference to a familiar literary or historical person or event, used to make an idea more easily understood. Character. The broad definition of “character” is a person in a literary work. The characters make up the plot of a literary piece. Various types of characters include Anthropomorphism and personification where animals, places or things can acquire some aspect of the character. There is direct description or presentation of the character by the story’s narrator, ant the word
Most of these literary works during this time necessitated in shaping the American literature as well as politics. Langston Hughes like the rest of the active figures in Harlem Renaissance happened to have a strong sense towards racial pride where he was focused in addressing the issues that the black community experience through his literary works. Duke Ellington, one of the key Harlem Renaissance figures focused on jazz music
namely Haifaa Al-Sanoussi's Departure of the Sea. It also attempts to show how the relationship between man and nature, which had been previously harmonized, has changed and became a heartless and cruel one due to technological and industrial developments and changes. Departure of the Sea is a short story in which the relationship between man and nature has manifested itself. The method of analysis followed in this research paper depends largely on the analysis of interactions that take place
contributions of his contemporaries including Eliot and C.S Leavis cannot be overlooked. With their arrival on the critical scene, modern criticism took a different turn. M.H Abrams too was a critic and a teacher of the 20th century. He was an American literary critic and is popularly known for his works on Romanticism. One of his ground breaking work is The Mirror and the Lamp: romantic theory and critical traditions where he celebrated the Romantics and draws on the influence of the author’s life and
His works are The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and And The Mountains Echoed. The Kite Runner, is a debut novel of Khaled Hosseini was published in 2003. It was the novel which brought an identity and position for Khaled Hosseini in the literary