Essays Tagged: "novelists"

James Joyce

Joyce, an Irish novelist and poet, grew up near Dublin. James Joyce is one of the most influential novelists of the 20th century. In each of his prose works he used symbols to experience what he call ...

(7 pages) 206 0 4.5 Aug/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Victorian Literature

belief that literature should provide both an understanding of and fresh values for a new society. Novelists of the period explored the difficulty of forming a personal identity in a world in which t ...

(2 pages) 166 0 3.1 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Levinsons Seasons of Man

men. These 40 men were between 35 to 45 years in age and they worked as either biology professors, novelists, business executives or industrial laborers. The biographical interviews lasted one or two ...

(17 pages) 203 1 3.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Films By: Kevin burdick : How novels are turned into films and the difficulties of making a film from a novel.

luded information because the author over emphasized or under emphasized a point. Contrary to that, novelists do not have to stress about those issues. They have no limitations on page amount and they ...

(8 pages) 49 1 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Realism and how authors like Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald give a "tell it like it is" writing in the stories. An author can only write realistically about what he/she knows.

leads a woman to accept or reject a particular man? In trying to answer these questions, realistic novelists often relied on the emerging sciences of human and animal behavior--biology, psychology, a ...

(7 pages) 122 0 3.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Jane Austen's Use of style in Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Pride and Prejudice

Arguably one of the greatest novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Jane Austen has proven herself through her defi ...

(4 pages) 107 1 4.2 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone".

Wilkie Collins(1824 - 1889)Although Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists of his day, his reputation now rests on the novels "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone ...

(28 pages) 73 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Title: The "Normal" Family.

other kind of commitment) who help each other with subsistence and emotional needs. Two present day novelists, Carol Shields and Jane Smiley describe their personal family arrangements in two very dif ...

(3 pages) 91 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

This was an essay for a Work and Society class. Basically, it analyzes literature and work. Specifically poetry and how it can expess core issues surrounding work in North American society.

eratureOf all the forms of literature that exist, poetry is possibly the most difficult to compose. Novelists, playwrights, and essayists have the luxury of space in which to develop their plots, them ...

(5 pages) 58 0 3.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

The development of the novel in the 20th century

des, there appeared a stratification of fiction due to primary education for all. Parallel to this, novelists saw themselves apart from the public, as dedicated men. This new modern conception involve ... rally, socially and economically different reality. This also had its impact on literature. The new novelists of the fifties include Samuel Beckett's experimental narrative, D.H. Lawrence, Lawrence Du ...

(6 pages) 255 0 3.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

This is a short biographical essay about Charles Dickens and gives a short overview about his life/work and books

Charles DickensBiographyCharles Dickens was one of the greatest novelists in the 19th century. He was knownfor excellent "sensible" writing and his ability to descr ...

(3 pages) 36 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

The English Novel

its peak during three distinct periods: 1740-1770, 1840-1890, and 1905-1930. The 1740-1770 group of novelists is comprised of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and Tobias Smollett. E ...

(1 pages) 21 0 2.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

This is an IB essay, i received a 6 on it (4.0 GPA), the conclusion is superficial and needs work... hope this helps.

'"'Novelists have a less or more sympathetic interest in the contradictions of human behavior.'"' In wh ... r.'"' In what ways, and by what means, are such contradictions presented in the works you have read?Novelists Achebe and Goethe realize that people are not constants, reasoning that although people ce ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.3 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Harlem Renaissance

enied to them all across the south. From this group of blacks, a generation of well-educated poets, novelists, playwrights, painters, essayists, and musicians emerged. They focused on African-American ...

(6 pages) 170 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Meaning of a word

his, I consider the written word inferior to the spoken, and much of the frustration experienced by novelists is the awareness that whatever we manage to capture in even the most transcendent passages ... lly verbalized. For her, written words do not hold as much power as those that are spoken; she, and novelists like her, are aware that even the most descriptive and moving of passages do not fully cap ...

(5 pages) 78 0 4.2 Dec/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

War

sthand experiences, so some comes out of peoples? imaginations. One of America?s most prominent war novelists, Stephen Crane, wrote about war before he ever saw battle. Crane?s short novel The Red Bad ...

(1 pages) 25 0 2.3 Apr/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

A research paper based on how The life of Mary Shelley affected her work. Send me a message for works cited

Mary Shelley's Life Shined Through her WorkBorn to two radical novelists in 1797, Mary Shelley had the gift and passion of writing in her blood. Going through many ...

(3 pages) 19 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Ethan Frome: Edith Wharton's Use Of Figurative Language

oreign to her as a hamburger to a Japanese sailor. This is what sets Edith Wharton apart from other novelists. Edith Wharton used many of her writing styles in this book, and when applied properly, ma ...

(7 pages) 30 0 5.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Social Relationships in "The Great Gatsby"

Novelists are often concerned with exploring the confusions and complexities of social relationships ... onfusion, as she is unable to state her true feeling towards either men. Thereby demonstrating, how novelists can explore confusions of a social relationship.In addition, the social relationship betwe ... o move on. Their relationship has ended and he is walking away from Jordan. Thereby indicating, how novelists can explore the confusions of social relationships such as lovers.In comparison, the socia ...

(4 pages) 27 0 4.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Discuss the following statement: "Quiroga does not glorify Nature; he simply shows how it works"

pital of the Republic of Uruguay, Montevideo, there was a rise of intellectuals and writers, poets, novelists, dramatists and short story writers, including Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937). His first lite ...

(6 pages) 28 0 4.2 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors