Essays, Book Reports & Research Reports on World Literature Authors (135) essays
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Philosophical Concepts in the Work of Borges: The books used in this essay are "The Circular Ruins", "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", and "The Library of Babel".
... fictional essays about magic to short stories that wove tales of alternate realities and paradoxical concepts. "The book which is normally considered to mark this transition is his Historia universal de la infamia(1935)" (Dyson 90). In fact, upon analyzing Borges' short stories, many literary ...
J.R.R. Tolkien - On Matters of Style and Audience
... of the most read authors of today. His most famous work, "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is now a major motion picture, reviving the interest of audiences around the world in his imaginary Middle Earth. The question then, is how does Tolkien reach beyond the constraints of a reader's demographics ...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabrial Garcia Marquez
... the crime. I believe that this quote is very important in the context of Garcia's writing style. Due to the fact that Chronicle of a Death Foretold is written using magical realism, the reader can frequently truly believe that the story is true. One of the ...
The character of Philemon in the short story "The Suit" by Can Themba
... The character of Philemon in the short story "The Suit" by Can Themba Philemon is dominated by a need to be in direct command of his own environment; in popular terms, he is a "control freak". He is unable to cope with any threat to his version of "the ...
Testing The Limits of Fiction
... magical realism. The stories that they compose extend the limits of fiction that most people are familiar with. Jorge Luis Borges has written many essays and poems, but he is most noted for writing short stories. One short story written by Borges is "The Gospel According to Mark." In "The ...
Charles Dickens Biography
... The story itself follows Davids life from a young child to an adult, and along the way exposes many of the cruelties and hardships of child labor in England at the time. It was published in 1850, though like many of ...
Rudyard Kipling
... published in 1886. He was a prolific writer and he achieved fame rather quickly with his writing. He was the poet of the British Empire and the common solider, whom he glorified in many of his works and especially in his short stories. In 1894 he wrote "The ...
Debbie Spring, The Kayak. A literary deconstruction of the character of Theresa, Analyzing her characteristics.
... The Kayak .International1 Thomson Publishing, 1999, 36). In various parts of the story, you can observe that no matter how Theresa wanted to rid herself from being dependent on her parents all the time, the ...
ANALYTICAL RESPONSE - The Australian Year 12 Analytical Response: Great Public Speakers.
... the crowd involved in the speech. The most moving use of repetition occurred about two thirds of the way through the speech where he used "I have a dream" to start each sentence. In this section the main message of the speech is reinforced through repetition. That message is that all men ...
Rudyard Kipling
... published in 1886. He was a prolific writer and he achieved fame rather quickly with his writing. He was the poet of the British Empire and the common solider, whom he glorified in many of his works and especially in his short stories. In 1894 he wrote "The ...