Claudia Rankine's book Citizen: An American Lyric was released in 2014. It is one of his many works that are difficult to categorize. Many people, though, have characterized the book as both a literary work and a criticism. It is mixed with photographs, criticism, and sculpture, and hence can be...
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Poetry is and has always been a broad topic in the history of the arts. Various authors have made several attempts to describe poetry. Also with the advancement of literature, there is no universally accepted concept of poetry. Thus, poetry is the general art of using human language aesthetically to express...
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Tennessee Williams uses symbolism successfully in The Glass Menagerie. This research takes a stand on the meaning and symbolism of the glass menagerie, with an emphasis on the unicorn. Laura's favorite of the glass menagerie is the unicorn, and as a metaphor, it represents Laura's mental and physical fragility. The...
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‘The Obligation to Be Happy' discusses success and how difficult it is to attain. The poet observes that meeting other desires, such as attractiveness and housework, is easy, but achieving the expected satisfaction is difficult. This is similar to the poem 'Why are your poems so dark?' The individual interviewing...
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Hamlet's View on Fate versus Free WillHamlet explains how tragedians viewed the current struggle between free will and destiny. Shakespeare's fiction describes the universal conflict between people's innate ability to influence their future and their proclivity to embrace fate. As Shakespeare depicts it, fate has always played a critical role...
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This was a comforting read for someone who loves writing (as I do), as Tim O'Brien details his thoughts about why storytelling is important. He writes, “Stories will save us” (213), explaining how using the imagination can offer warmth that does not always happen in reality. One of the novel's...
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Isabel's novel 'House of Spirits' tells the story of the Trueba family, who are surrounded by passion, hate, a desire for riches and strength, a desire for vengeance, and poverty all at the same time. Clara, her husband, Esteban Trueba, their children Blanca and the twin sons, Jaime and Nicolas,...
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Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian author born in Ukraine in 1920. She is a well-known author around the world for her innovative novels and short stories. She was born in Podolia to a Jewish family before being moved to Brazil. Her adoption to Brazil was due to the issues confronting...
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Emile Zola's novel Germinal Germinal is notable in the French tradition. It depicts a coal miner's strike in Northern France in the 1860s. The title "Germinal" is the name of a French calendar month that means "seed." The novel's central focus is the plight of miners and their search for life....
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Tarfia Faizullah's Seam is an enthralling series of poems that blends charm with aggression, personal memories with historical events. The poems recount the harrowing memories of two thousand female rape and torture victims during the Pakistani army's Liberation War in 1971. Tarfia Faizullah, the daughter of a Bangladeshi refugee, discusses...
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Virginia, a British novelist, editor, and critic Stephen Woolf is regarded as one of England's most dependable authors between the First and Second World Wars. Woolf went down her experimental path after becoming dissatisfied with the novels of the well-known, real, and obvious. Along the way, the author discovered a...
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James Doty s JourneyJames Doty is a well-known neurosurgeon, and in his book Into the Magic Shop, he demonstrates how we can turn our lives by first changing our hearts and minds. He recounts his childhood, which was originally fraught with family difficulties as a result of his father s...
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