Essays Tagged: "american writer"
A biography or the author Arthur Miller
Arthur MillerArthur Miller, an American writer of the twentieth century, he was famous for his screen writings and early year plays ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Washington Irving
Washington IrvingWashington Irving was an American writer, the first American author to achieve international fame, who created the fictional ... ularity of Irving's tales involving these characters proved the effectiveness of the short story in American literary form.Irving was born in New York City, Irving studied law at private schools. Afte ... ork, 'A History of New York' (1809), evidently written by Irving's famous comic creation, the Dutch-American scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker. The work is a account of New York State during the period o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"The Cay -Book Review by Theodore Taylor"
AuthorTheodore Taylor is an American writer who also makes documentary films. His inspiration to write "The Cay" came from his r ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
An in-depth review of Sylvia Plath and her poem, "Point Shirley".
Sylvia Plath is an American writer whose well-known poems are carefully written pieces distinguished for their personal ... tails are more important than the actual time and place that the events occurred.Sylvia Plath is an American writer whose best-known poems are carefully crafted pieces noted for their personal imagery ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Hester, What a Change! Refers to character in Hawthorne's "Scarlet letter".
y God.Many years later Nathaniel Hawthorn was greatly interested by the Puritans. This 19th-century American novelist, was born on July 4, in Salem, Massachusetts, and died May 11, 1864. He was the fi ... f human motivations and actions. In The Scarlet Letter, he expressed one of the central legacies of American Puritanism, using the plight of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to illustrate the confl ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Deerslayer" by James Fenimore Cooper
e) Cooper, the twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great American novelists, in many ways because he was the first American writer to gain international foll ... (p. 13). In addition his writing, specifically The Deerslayer, present a unique view of the Native American's experiences and situation. Many critics, for example, argue that The Deerslayer presents ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Edgar Allen Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, known as a poet and critic but mostfamous as the "master of the short-story form" ( ... Poe's writings have been debated since his death, but his works have remainedpopular and many major American and European writers have "professed theirartistic debt to him" ( Edgar Allan Poe).Edgar Al ... ter a lifelong friend. In the New York Mirror of Jan. 29,1845, appeared, from advance sheets of the American Review, his most famouspoem, "The Raven," which gave him national fame at once" (Woodberry ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
The life of Ernest Hemingway.
ent to the lives of the heroes he created, and his peerless Romanticism forever changed the way the American protagonist would be viewed. "Ernest Hemingway grew up to become one of America's most resp ... way was the most colorful and most publicized man of his time while also being the most influential American writer of prose in the first half of the century."The baby weighed nine and a half pounds a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
The Scarlet Letter.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, a critically acclaimed American writer of the 19th century, was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. The novelist's book, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Growing up, an analysis of isolation in winesburg, ohio.
, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson, edited by John H. Ferres, Viking Press, 1996). The novel by the North-American writer is a collection of short stories, about the life, emotions and feelings of the towns ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men".
Stupid White Men by Michael MooreI read the book 'Stupid White Men' by the American writer and filmmaker Michael Moore right after I had seen his documentary film 'Bowling for ... telligent mixture of facts and the writer's unique humour turns this book into a stinging satire on American politics. Its dense sequence of information and its balance between in-depth explanations a ... deal with the government of the United States and its President George W. Bush. Chapter one 'A Very American Coup', for example, presents all of the members of Bush's administration, as well as their ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A Brief History of the Blues.
Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. ( ... blue' has been associated with the idea of melancholia or depression since the Elizabethan era. The American writer, Washington Irving is credited with coining the term 'the blues,' as it is now defin ... ssible the absorption of blues into both jazz as well as the mainstream of pop music." (Priestly 10)American troops brought the blues home with them following the First World War. They did not, of cou ...
Subjects: Art Essays
A Summary of the Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter
[Abstract]: The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorneknown all around the world. Hawthorne uses the symbolism so skill ... [Keywords]: The Scarlet Letter, symbolismNathaniel Hawthorne is considered to be the first greatest Americanfiction writer in the moralistic tradition. His work The Scarlet Letterthat is notable for i ... rlet Letterthat is notable for its allegory and symbolism is regarded as the firstsymbolic novel in American literature. The novel revolves around one majorsymbol: the scarlet letter. Besides, some ot ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pearl
iel Hawthorne, is a novel that shows the Puritanical way of life. Hawthorne, a critically acclaimed American writer of the 19th century, was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. The novelist's book, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Essay On William Wordsworth's Poem London, 1807
m Douglass is about how America had fallen on evildays, days worse than when Frederick Douglass, an American writer and former slave,was still alive. The writer states that the whole country listened ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Jack London, Darwinism in Jack London, A Zoom On "Law of Life"
Jack London,the famous american writer insisted on writing political essays in his times. He was among the most influential ... epted as a classic of world literature ,one of the most widely translated and published books by an american writer.The stduy of Jack London's work became a mirror of the turbulent Mc Carthy era and t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A Summary of the Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter
A Summary of the Symbolism in The Scarlet LetterDon Grant[Abstract]: The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorneknown all around the world. Hawthorne uses the symbolism so skill ... [Keywords]: The ScarletLetter, symbolism[Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered to be the first greatest Americanfiction writer in the moralistic tradition. His work The Scarlet Letterthat is notable for i ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The American "Dream"
The popular belief in the American Dream is more than a red herring fallacy used to win political debates. It is a clever tool ... niless, foreign, and otherwise subordinate peoples into having faith in a life of wage slavery. The American Dream is a strange concept, bringing to mind visions of painted goddesses with large books ... painted goddesses with large books holding telegraph wires. It is felt in the stirrings of gullible American's hearts during the National Anthem. It is the idea that anyone- regardless of race, class, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
A Summary of the Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter
[Abstract]: The Scarlet Letter makes the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne known all around the world. Hawthorne uses the symbolism so skil ... [Keywords]: The Scarlet Letter, symbolismNathaniel Hawthorne is considered to be the first greatest American fiction writer in the moralistic tradition. His work The Scarlet Letter that is notable for ... et Letter that is notable for its allegory and symbolism is regarded as the first symbolic novel in American literature. The novel revolves around one major symbol: the scarlet letter. Besides, some o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Literary anaysis of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
During the 1800's Washington Irving was critical in American Literature's separation from Britain. He wrote the "Sketch Book" which included stories suc ... uded stories such as "Rip Van Winkle" and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". It was the first book by an American writer to become popular outside of the United States and helped establish American writing ... imagery in his tales, and the reader gets to analyze the meaning behind his words. He was the first American author to produce a popular book in the United States with his collection of stories in "Th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers