writings of all ages and times. It is not a method of analysis or interpretation but a redefined area of research and rediscovery. Most of the work in the theory’s jurisdiction has been pursued in the USA, where a special emphasis has been given to Native American folklore and literature; but much eco-critical work has also been devoted to the English Romantic tradition notably by the British literary historian Jonathan Bate in his books Romantic Ecology and The Song of the Earth. Nature may appear
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
Review of Literature Queer Culture studies are fairly new to the field of academic studies especially in the discipline of communication. The growing interest on it has just begun a few decades ago when the social sciences conducted numerous researches about it, in line with their psychological, personality, and identity researches. Before this, all researches mainly focused on traditional gender types present in society, the heterosexual individuals. This is reflected on how little the research
Chetan Bhagat has become India’s darling writer by embracing the present. He manages to keep his sense of humor despite writing on topics that are actually the pitiless realities of beings. His writing has updated the postmodern literature. He believes that the aim of literature is mirror to society. Many writers are flourishing at expressing what is in their
7.2 Literature review 7.2.1 The way young adults practice emotional intelligence Young adults practice emotional intelligence through a few ways. Empirical literature supports both strong temporal stability of individual differences in basic emotions and close longitudinal links between discrete emotional experiences and personality traits (Benjamin P. Chapman, Bert Hayslip Jr, 2006). In another analysis of differentiation of affect, Terracciano, McCrae, Hagemann, and Costa (2003) found that young
The first historians of the Great Depression treated the period as if the experiences of white men were the whole story, but in recent years, scholars of social and women's history have begun to explore the experiences of African Americans, Hispanics, women, and even children during this economic cataclysm. Now literary scholar Laura Hapke has enriched our understanding of women's experiences during the Great Depression with Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American
after the Father of His Country, George Washington. He is known as the father of American Literature. He “legitimated the writer as writer, someone distinct from other occupations, and he vindicated the artwork as just that, a work of art and not a vehicle for moral or civic instruction” (Gilmore 661-662). He was the American writer who made authorship profitable. "If the American public wish to have literature of their own," he declared, "they must consent to pay for the support of authors" (669)
Themes and lessons that are present in greek mythology has influenced literature and the way people perceive life. Stories in greek mythology tend to be very lengthy and distributed into different sections, but within those different sections there are different themes and points to be reached. In the Iliad there are many different trials that Odysseus has to face but he strives to return home no matter what. After returning home for sometime, he finally meets with Penelope and are reunited. Johann
Street. The gothic genre is a genre of fiction characterized by mystery and supernatural horror, often set in a dark castle or other medieval setting. Gothic fiction, which is largely dominated by the subgenre of gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror and Romanticism. Tim Burton defined a whole other genre of films by creating gothic, dark films with sinister atmosphere. Many artists and other factors have influenced his style. Impressionists’ andexpressionists’
1. Introduction Detective fiction is a relatively young genre of literature: “The idea that crime, particularly murder, provided entertainment was only born in the first decades of the nineteenth century, but it would bloom into one of the greatest mass-media interests of all time” (Worsley 17, italics in the original). In spite of its youthfulness, this genre has already developed its own rules and regulations/conventions, as well as established its own canon. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective