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paul collopy

Jack London Sea Wolf Explanation - 4 views

Jack London

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paul collopy

Jack London's Inspiration/ Philosophy - 3 views

Philosopgy Jack London

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Maggie Hannon

PowerSearch  Document - 0 views

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    "t; "when she was there beside the sea, absolutely alone, she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her, and for the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun" (175)."
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    Discusses the symbolism of clothing pertaining to self discovery.
Maggie Hannon

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    Discusses how Mademoiselle Reisz lives vicariously through Edna's drama, and how the "lady in black" is similar to Reisz.
rafael Gomez

Literature Resource Center - Document - 0 views

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    cannery row Steinbeck, John
Yoni Carnice

Jack London "To Build a Fire" Criticism - 2 views

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    The article is a criticism of the short story, "To Build a Fire".
Jessica Kesler

Literature Resource Center - Document - 0 views

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      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
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    2nd lit criticism. Precis #2.
Yoni Carnice

THE PHILOSOPHY OF JACK LONDON - 1 views

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    Brief summaries of the men that influenced Jack London
Jessica Kesler

Literature Resource Center - Document - 0 views

  • Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1994 St. James Press, COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale When Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1954, the jury testified to his stature as one of the most i
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  • a natural admiration of every individual who fights the good fight in a world of reality overshadowed by violence and death."
  • the crisp reporting of action observed in sharp focus, dialogue that is colloquial in register and laconic in tone
  • supported by deeper narrative structures
  • The emotional responses between speakers are implied, not described, as speech follows speech.
  • It is about the relationship of the man and the woman as revealed through the action and dialogue.
  • rficially, this is the story of an aborted fishing trip; quintessentially it is the story of a collapsing relationship whose outcome is unresolved
  • Hemingway wrote of his narrative strategy that "if a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as if the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."
  • the reader more easily perceives the submerged structures that support the visible parts of his later fiction,
  • Hemingway's narrative technique was taking. The story is presented obliquely, its effect created as much by what is omitted as by what is overtly stated.
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    Lit. Criticism
Kimberly Aralar

Willa Cather - 4 views

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    My gale links won't work.
rafael Gomez

Literature Resource Center - Document - 1 views

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    John STeinbeck overview
rafael Gomez

steinbeck biography - 1 views

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    the biography
rafael Gomez

steinbeck article - 1 views

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    steinbeck #1
rafael Gomez

SULAIR: AmLitStudies: John Steinbeck Collections - 0 views

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    about Steinbeck
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