Book review on Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov “Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.” (Nabokov 1.1.1). There are plenty of interesting sentences, lines, words and quotes that were very inspiring and profound. Nevertheless...
Personal Response A.S 2.9 * Lolita First page of chapter one, I was engaged, clouded by confusion, and also struggling to understand Vladimir Nabokov’s literature. “Lo, Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta:” who is this Lolita I question, what makes her so unequalled...
spent much of his adult life in Europe. His work is complex, sometimes obscure, with multiple references to other art forms and to a vast range of literature, both Western and Eastern. He influenced many other poets, notably T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), another expatriate. Eliot wrote spare, cerebral poetry...
James Nery Professor Anderson English 306 30 May 2013 Humbert’s reaction to losing Lolita, as well as his reaction to seeing her again, exemplifies just how complicated his feelings for Lolita are. Throughout the novel, Humbert has always strived to demonstrate that he’s not a common pedophile...
Authors," "Great American Writers," etc. ------------------------------------------------- While the accepted literary canon includes all genres of literature, the focus of this web page is A Canon of Classic Novels. Keep in mind that a canon emerges gradually and is subject to change. Additionally, this...
in which everything is perfect. This is exactly the type of love both of our main charters, Leo and Humbert, felt in the novels the Go-Between and Lolita; two different main characters, in two different novels but the same “Blind Love”. Love manipulated both charters in two separate but parallel ways...
Understanding Historiographic Metafiction Historiographic metafiction is a relatively new term being used within the postmodern realm of writing. This genre has really come from the much older form of historical fiction. The best road to understanding this change is to understand fiction, metafiction...
beds, hoping on day either my brother or I grab a book and read it. We didn’t. The library was filled with books related to historical events and literature, and both my brother and I were and still not interested in these types of books. When I read a book, which I rarely do, I attend to search...
‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, one of the five most famous elegies in English literature, is written by Thomas Gray who was the poet of the transitional period between Neo-classic and Romantic. For this reason, he was influenced by both the literary ideals of these periods. In this poem, we...
Semester – III Paper IX New Literatures in English South Asian Literature Unit-I * Agha Shahid Ali : ‘Postcard from Kashmir’ * KishwarNaheed : ‘I am not that Woman’ Unit - II ShyamSelvadurai : Funny Boy KunzangChoden : The Circle of Karma Unit-III Australian Literature * A.D. Hope : ‘Australia’...
mentioned, many, or most, formal letters are written in English. Literature "Great authors write in only one language: Remarkably few people have ever made contributions to world literature in more than one language. Beckett and Nabokov may be the only two prominent examples. Conrad, who is sometimes...
want to suggest that these assertions have no real substance and should therefore be disregarded.[8] Much of the writing that can be classified as postmodern deliberately cuts across these boundaries, creating a bricolage;[9] such writing is difficult to decipher and refuses to be neatly categorised. Since...
wicked but not very wild, I fear too much ingrained Presbyterian caution".[5] Cole suggests that Hope represented the three attributes that Vladimir Nabokov believed essential in a writer, "storyteller, teacher, enchanter".[5] Influence and impact[edit] Kevin Hart, reviewing Catherine Cole's memoir...
these concepts to explain his ideologies. One of the main characteristics of postmodern thinking is that the world is seen as much more complex and an uncertain place. Reality is not determined and all truth within a postmodern context is related to one's viewpoint or stance. The world is a representation...
Postcolonial Novels and Theories Postcolonial literature often focuses on race relations and the effects of racism and usually indicts white and/or colonial societies. Despite a basic consensus on the general themes of postcolonial writing, however, there is ongoing debate regarding the...
does not only serve as an element of the postmodernist style, but also as a method of clinging to earlier works and styles that belong to English literature, almost as a homage to those writers whom Ackroyd unquestioningly admires. In an interview, when asked to describe what the English tradition...
as well as many of his contemporaries (Gray 321-323). Likewise, the majority of Disney’s classic animated films are based off of famous works of literature (including Shakespeare) and fairy tales. Shakespeare’s influence on modern media is undeniable. From The West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet) to...
values symptomatic of Modernist literature in general, as well as the disillusion felt toward the totalizing assumptions inherent in the traditional or modern hero. The continuing popularity of the antihero in modern literature and popular culture is based on a postmodern recognition that persons are fraught...
completely unfazed by this action, however we know this not to be the case as his longing for her is never complete until he meets someone of her type, Lolita. Humbert debates in his mind whether his ‘miserable memories…of that remote summer…[caused] the rift in [his] life’ to begin. Was this cycle of unfortunate...
conflicting ideologies that ground the film’s rhetoric, those of Disney and Pixar Studios. Although produced and released by Disney, WALL-E reflects the postmodern viewpoint of Pixar Animation studios, the creators of the film, transforming the film and its protagonist, WALL-E into what Paul Wells calls an “American...
Growing up in a city that have maintained an interesting free mix of diverse people from different cultural orientation also contributed to the “PostModern” blend of cultures (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2008) that characterise my unique breed. This blend, sometimes known as the “Lagos Culture” (based on the...
Forest College Follow this and additional works at: http://publications.lakeforest.edu/allcollege_writing_contest Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Tennerstedt, Darlene, "T. S. Eliot: Impersonal Poetry And Tradition" (1994). All-College Writing Contest. http://publications...
find meaning. Using the complex history of both the Thurn and Taxis as well as the Tristero system leaves the reader and Oedipa more than confused. Postmodern fiction reveals the past as always ideologically and discursively constructed. It is a fiction which is directed both inward and outward, concerned...
part of a traveling exhibition in 1948. Literature[edit] Main article: Caribbean literature Caribbean writer Andrew Salkey, author of [[HurricaneChildren's novel]]. Caribbean literature is often divided into Spanish, French and English-language literature, which are rooted in the literary traditions...
A Review of Literature on Distance Education Linda Cannell Trinity Evangelical Divinity School of Trinity International University ABSTRACT: The issues affecting the future of distance education are complex. Questions concerning accreditation and standards, evaluation and assessment, instructional requirements...
novel The Shadow Lines is probably the most important fictional work to have appeared in South Asian literature in the last decade: it sums up and fictionalises all the major issues of Postcolonial literature – the search for identity, the need for independence and the difficult relationship with colonial...
revelation is missing. Because T. Coraghessan Boyle's story "Greasy Lake" has recently been presented in X. J. Kennedy's fifth edition of his literature anthology, Literature (along with stories by John Updike, James Joyce, and Katherine Anne Porter), comparisons are bound to occur. Although this is not the...
book is concerned with the world as it exists during and after the period of European imperial domination and the effects of this on contemporary literatures. (p.2) Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, in Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory suggest a slightly different emphasis: Colonial discourse...
means only in the suburbs—a kind of blind, desperate clinging to safety and security…a great many Americans were deeply disturbed by all that…. Good literature inspires emotion that is transferred beyond simple admiration (“magic seems neat”) into reality (“Having read this novel, I must weep”). This emotion...
the author (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 45ff. Sadie Plant, The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age (London: Routledge, 1992), has written the most eloquent defence of Debord against the critique that sees in him the later Baudrillard. The...
utilise a range of cultural ideas and practices. This form of plurality has can be called ‘modern’ or ‘postmodern plurality’. There is an intertwined relationship between traditional and modern/postmodern plurality which creates changes and developments within an established cultural tradition. For example...
governments, way they looked at the universal and moral orders that supposedly have shaped History. Naturally, the Chinese have some of the oldest literature in world and the Daoists and Buddhists priests used priests used stories and parables in religious instruction just like most of us do today. Scholars...
traditional structure of the family can be seen as being out-dated for today, gay families have become more acceptable within the neo-liberalism and postmodern world, in which the average family have developed into many different forms. In which has emerged with legalisations in which have been introduced...
United States: Civil Rights/anti Vietnam War. Black/Feminist Action. Now Left Wing. Increase in pacifism, ‘green’ political options. Field of literature; widespread tendency towards metafiction, the assumption of a tone of ironic and periodic playfulness, a flouting of the traditional realism – enhancing...
high-blown experimentalism. Linda Hutcheon shows that postmodernism does not oust modernism completely, that “the modern is ineluctably embedded in the postmodern, but the relation is a complex one, of consequence, difference and dependence.” Postmodernism has been tolerant, democratic and ironic and, rather...
geographical/cultural properties of a place, unlike contemporary superficial forms of cultural banality. Such evidences accurately correlate to the literatures of place/culture homogenization which critically argue the onset of globalization “engulfs and overtake traditional cultures” (Terkenli 2002), rendering...
contradict itself; 3. secondary literature has been correctly understood and is correctly reproduced or summarized. All sources, primary and secondary, must be properly identified. In general students are further expected to 4. give a critical assessment of the literature in question; 5. give, or at...
result of hip hop (Miller, 2004, p. 225). Lolita is both a fashion and a subculture in Japan. This particular fashion category includes several subcategories, Gothic, Classic, Punk, Sweet Lolita, Wa-Lolita and Qi-Lolita. First you have the Gothic Lolita, which is a youth fashion among Japanese teenagers...
history of Western philosophy. However, the phrase is often confused with modern philosophy (which refers to an earlier period in Western philosophy), postmodern philosophy (which refers to continental philosophers' criticisms of modern philosophy), and with a non-technical use of the phrase referring to any...
variety of contexts” (‘Never Tell Too Plainly’). In addition, language is said to be the house of Being. Carl Olson says in his book Zen and the art of postmodern philosophy that “all human beings dwell within this house, and they can never step out of language in order to perceive it from an objective perspective”...
the narrative sinks under the weight of excessive allusion. At the same time Beckett uses intertextuality to remind the reader of the intrusion of literature into life, of the command language has over human destiny. Unfortunately language in More Pricks also appears to have the upper hand in Beckett's...
public relations departments that are empowered as a strategic management function rather than only as an interpretive function represent more of a postmodern approach to management than a modern approach.. Public relations has value in this perspective because it brings a different set of problems and...
contribution of this research lies in developing the multi-sensory brand-experience hypothesis within a SM model. It fills a major gap in the marketing literature and research in stressing the need to rethink conventional marketing models. Keywords Sensory perception, Brands, Marketing models Paper type...
The focus of this article is on literature in the English language from anywhere, not just the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, the whole of Ireland, Wales, as well as literature in English from former British colonies, including the US. However, up until the early 19th...
senses following along with the description of the text it should expand the understanding of the text. On the essay “Good Readers and Good Writers” Nabokov states “We must see things and hear things, we must visualize the rooms, the clothes, the manners of an author’s people. The color of Fanny Price’s...
Literature Surrounding Us All “What is literature?” Literature is defined as the written works, especially those considered of superior or enduring merit. Although literature can be defined, it has no single implication. Literature is a written language with its own set of rules and regulations...
What is literature? Why do we read it? Why is literature important? Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, "literature" is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer...
LITERATURE REVIEW PROCESS The literature review should • Take the form of a critical discussion, showing insight and an awareness of differing arguments, theories and approaches. • Synthesise and analyse the relevant published work, linked at all times to your own purpose and rationale. The literature...
Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated "Comp. lit.") is critical scholarship dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups. While most frequently practiced with works of different languages, it may also be performed on works of the same language if...
In English literature, the definition of literature has changed many times, usually in response to historical and cultural realities. It is not surprising that at a time in which the digital has started to eclipse print—the main medium for literature for 400 years—we find the former definitions lacking...
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Ms. Thomas English 12 Honors Periods 4A and 4B Sample Response Paper True literature captures the human experience, through the intentional and artistic employment of literary techniques such as rhetoric, characterization, and plot. Literary works are primarily distinguishable from other pieces...
Literature of the Holocaust Literature of the Holocaust It is amazing how the influence of one man, Adolf Hitler, could control the minds and ethics of a complete nation. The prejudice and hate that dwelled inside of him, killed an entire group of individuals. The Holocaust is the most...
Literature reflects all communities along with the individuals in the societies. Settings, culture, beliefs and the context makes up the attributes among some of the things that play an integral part on the illustration on how literature reflects and demonstrates communities. The language from the...
FUNCTIONS OF LITERATURE: Critics have been discussing from very early times about the function or functions of literature. Though they differ among themselves regarding the other functions of literature, they are all agreed on one point—that the main function of literature is to entertain...
Literature can be any form of written material. Literature in the community brings different forms of communication to a variety a people. It is an entertainment that can take you through an author’s view on the world. An author can bring out different feelings in people while reading literature....
Loss and Rediscovery of Greek Literature Throughout Greek's history they experienced many woes, the loss and rediscovery of their literature being the greatest. In 146 BC, when the Romans annexed an already week Greece, their culture flourished, the Romans adopted many of their ways of life. Including...
Miller vs. Perloff: The Decline of Literature J. Hillis Miller discusses the decline of literature in his book, On Literature, and his sentiments echo those of Marjorie Perloff in her essay, Crisis in the Humanities. While both authors construct thesis that assert that there is a modern movement...
possible for a few people who know that particular language to control the critical scene – that language surfaced, interestingly enough, just when the literature of the people of color, of black women, of Latin Americans, of Africans began to move to the ‘centre’. Words such as centre and periphery are themselves...
American Literature can be classified in many forms from oral presentations to well known historical writings. History has taught us that literature can come in different forms and languages. When speaking of American literature one must always remember to consider the tales, legends and songs of the...