golden age in less complex, more harmonious times.” (Kammen, 294) This yearning was also reflected in literature and the rise in popularity of the Western literary genre was according to William Bloodworth a “response by both authors and readers to the closing of the frontier and opening of a new urban environment.” (45) Despite changing social and cultural conditions, the Western literary genre allowed readers and writers to “turn, in imagination, to the American West” (Bloodworth, 48) and the values
heavily affected the American Western movies in 20th century. Rashomon (1950) and Yojimbo (1961) are also good examples of his works that had influences on the Western movie production. After his debut as the Japanese Western-movie director, many Western movie directors, even famous ones, started utilizing some of Kurosawa’s techniques and or styles in their movies, and one of his films even lead to the development of a new sort of Western movie called Spaghetti Western. In this research paper, the
Literature – in a restricted sense – is a body of w ritten work possessing artistic merits; but beyond this rudimentary definition, lit erature is also a significant marker of the cultural health of a society. Different peri ods and movements of a society get represented through its literature in various modes from realistic to fantastic; and, conversely, literature too holds the potential to b ring about remarkable changes and developments in the society by influencing the clim ate of thought of
David Russell in Literature for Children: A Short Introduction (1946) makes an interesting point when he traces the origin of children’s literature to that of literature itself. He assumes that since all literature began orally, children’s literature too began its journey in the rudimentary beginnings of literature itself. His assumption is that all Greek and Roman children would have known Homer, Virgil or Ovid and this proves children’s enjoyment of adventures and fantasies. The middle Ages saw
Many scholars like Paranjape, David McCutchion, and Herbert McArthur have always depreciated the canonical status of the Indian English fiction on the basis of its reliance on the western form, its inability to speak to the large Indian masses, and its failure to be desi in its outlook. Paranjape’s arguments have often proved the Indian English fiction a mediocre to English fiction. In his work Towards a Poetics of the Indian English Novel (2000) Makarand Paranjape asserts (anti-)colonial ancestry
including those gathered from literary works. Every literary piece is a tale in i tself and any good tale creates universal appeal to the readers even if it is out o f an individual experience and evokes 171 a local essence. Travel writing is one such genre which portrays experiences of an individual but when they are put on paper they blen d into observations and perceptions of lived lives in one culture or the ot her. A study involving more than one work for comparison indeed calls for two different
Ali further argues that at the head of the charge of men from the North on the field of Nigerian literature is the figure of Abubakar Imam Kagara who is a paterfamilias (The male head of a family). His works primarily Ruwan Bagaja and Magana Jari Ce, published in 1934 and 1939 respectively, were a link that binded the old tradition of Northern Nigerian literature and the modern tradition. Seeing that the time was changing swiftly, he had the vision not to write in Arabic or the popular ‘ajami’ (Hausa
China through powerfully telling the stories of the lives of Chinese-American minorities. As the daughter of two Chinese immigrants, Tan “spent her childhood years attempting to understand… the contradictions between her ethnicity and the dominant Western culture” (Huntley 2) present in Oakland, California, where she grew up (“Amy”). Like other Asian-Americans, Tan was an Americanized teenager who tried to fulfill the expectations of her traditional Chinese parents (Huntley 2). Reflecting this theme
and meaning of genre. Literary generic categories, as we understand them in the United States, have existed since the nineteen thirties, although dedicated scholarly attention began only in the nineteen seventies. Frederic Jameson’s article Magical Narratives: Romance as Genre argued that ‘genres are essentially contracts between a writer and his readers; or rather … they are literary institutions … like other agreements or contacts’. This declaration of the nature of literary genre was an addition
journey of Indian English literature in the form of novel “The rise of the novel in India was not purely a literary phenomenon.It was a social phenomenon as much, rather the fulfillment of a social need’’.1 Writes K.S.Ramamurti in his book Rise of the Indian Novel In English . Of Course, fiction can be called a new branch, a new attempt in comparison with poetry, prose and other treatises but today we can claim that it is the most popular genre of Indo-Anglian literature. Although in the beginning