Each man lit a cigar. The four men sailed in their boat with the belief of a rescue shining in their eyes. They smoked their big cigars and took a drink of water. (MUSIC) BARBARA KLEIN: You have been listening to the first part of the American short story, “The Open Boat,” by ...
CanLit's Ossiferous Fictions: Animal Bones and Fossils in Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man and Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries This chapter examines "ossiferous" processes in Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man (1979) and Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries (1993). In these two novel... ...
Novels, short stories, poems, African American voices, Civil War diaries, etc Industrial Rev., wealth and poverty Shattered idealism after Civil War, "loss of innocence", portrayed life in a realistic way, naturalism (forces larger than the individual) ...
Citing a local effort to mobilize pastors and churches against Warwick’s curricula, some in Lititz have decried an effort to impose a “Christian worldview” on public school students. Others have pointed out that, though most objections focus on bad language and racy images, All American ...
Rita in a strapless black dress with a lit cigarette between the index and middle fingers of her right hand is reason enough to rue the day the surgeon general condemned smoking in 1963. “Got a light?” Gilda asks, and when Johnny flicks the lighter, it is belt high and she must ...
Backgrounds 1 nationalinfluencesinternationalinfluences 2 nationalinfluences Inpolitics:democracyandpoliticalequalitylaythefoundationofRomanticism;Ineconomics:thespreadofindustrialism;thesuddeninfluxofimmigrationandthepioneerspushingthefrontierfurtherwest;Inculture:thepublicationofWebsterDictionary...
Poetry, short stories, plays, novels, diverse literature, demand for hard, clear, concrete expression, themes implied Time of upheavals, American lit gained more recognition (Nobel winners) Two World Wars, feelings of uncertainty and disillusionment, patriotism ...
They stroll through the streets of Chinatown to 12 Bartlett Alley, which turns out to be a dimly-lit opium den. As they say in the Ballad of Portsmouth Square,”…a Chinaman’s luck is the Devil’s own luck…” Fong, Jason BIO: Jason Fong has written two stage plays, “Fentor” ...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a...
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir by Debra Lee (Legacy Lit, Mar 07, 2023) Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World beyond the Church by Lenny Duncan (Broadleaf Books, Feb 21, 2023) Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel by Walter Mosley (Mulholland Books, Feb 21, 2023) What Makes...