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alyssa domdoma

PAL: Kate Chopin (1851-1904) - 0 views

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  • This heightened her awareness of female roles in society and allowed her to be spared of the general submission of women to men (Skaggs 2). She used these influences to shape her views on woman's role in society and infused those ideals in her writing.
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  • ne that was fairly unconventional. Oscar respected Kate as a unique and curious woman and allowed her enormous freedom in her endeavors (39). Yet, Kate ha
  • being the wife of a Creole cotton broker and take care for their six children (Skaggs 3). Like Kate's father, Oscar also died a sudden death in 1883. The tremendous grief she felt for his loss seemed to stay with her through most of her life and was a great influence on her writing (Seyersted 46).
  • insatiable reader, she needed to provide for her large family, and she was encouraged by her family doctor to pursue her passion of writing as a relief from her loss
  • Her writing resembled the local color movement's characteristics in that she focused on characters from her part of the country and portrayed them through the social and physical settings in which they lived
  • It ended her career as a writer permanently
  • That voice gave an important view of the female role in society and contributed to the beginning of the later feminist movements.
  • "unless one’s inner person is integral with one’s outer roles and relationships, a fully satisfying life cannot be achieved
  • Maggie Hannon on 09 Feb 10
     
    Biography of Kate Chopin; includes reaction of The Awakening in actual society.
  • alyssa domdoma on 17 Feb 10
     
    bio; *repost.
Yoni Carnice

THE PHILOSOPHY OF JACK LONDON - 1 views

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Jack London influences philosophy Maud

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  • Yoni Carnice on 09 Feb 10
     
    Brief summaries of the men that influenced Jack London
Jessica Kesler

Literature Resource Center - Document - 0 views

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Meowingway

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      Jessica Kesler on 09 Feb 10
       
      The start of the lit crticism
  • one of the finest prose stylists in English,"
  • The presenter of the 1954 Nobel Prize in literature said: "With masterly skill [Hemingway] reproduces all the nuances of the spoken word, as well as those pauses in which thought stands still and the nervous mechanism is thrown out of gear. It may sometimes sound like small talk, but it is not trivial when one gets to know his method. He prefers to leave the work of psychological reflection to his readers and this freedom is of great benefit to him in spontaneous observation."
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  • Hemingway has been a powerful mentor, in terms of what it means to create a landscape impressionistically on the page, to make it come alive, pulse, breathe, to 'make the country so that you could walk into it.'
  • Although recognized primarily as a stylist and innovator of form, Hemingway also embraced a distinctly modern, existentialist worldview that influenced twentieth-century literature.
  • Hemingway code"
  • involves qualities of stoicism, courage, honor, endurance, and self-control.
  • romantic alienation that [Hemingway himself] seemed to be emblematic of and that he manifested in his style as well."
  • Critics have also remarked upon the psychological effects of violence depicted in Hemingway's novels and short fiction
  • Jessica Kesler on 09 Feb 10
     
    2nd lit criticism. Precis #2.
Anthony Tabinas

The Influence of Ernest Hemingway - 0 views

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meowingway

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