1.The definition of Transcendentalism ①It was aphilosophical and literary movement, flourishing in New England from 1830s to the Civil War. ②It exaltedfeelingover reason,individual expressionover the restraints of law and custom.③ Its majorfeaturescan be summarized as the following: firstly, it ...
125. ___ summarized the experiences and attitude of the decade in his short stories and famous novel The Great Gatsby. And this decade refers to ___ (time) in America, which is also called the Jazz Age, the Lost Generation. 126. “the old-fashioned way to be new” is used to descr...
The poem’s opening line establishes rhythmic beat of successive iambs (short-long): “Sweetday, socool, socalm, sobright.” This pattern is more or less followed in the first three lines of the first three quatrains, but each fourth line slams on the brakes with its sober message of m...
. ) 18. The famous poem “A Psalm of Life” was written by Edgar Allen Poe. . ) 19. “The Raven” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. . ) 20. Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel The Bluest Eye. . I. Match the following writers and ...
The Joker's Line: "Take thy beak from out my heart" (at Vicki's Apartment) was from Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven. The full line is "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" (the "beak" being of the Raven). In Empire magazine Nicholson said...
Modeled on Ben Johnson, the poem expresses a conventional theme, and can be summarized in a single sentence: since time and space are limited, let us love while we can. The hero is totally self-confident, with no Prufrockian self-consciousness. He never thinks of retreat, never recognizes ...
In the introduction to her bookEvictions, Deutsche summarized Henri Lefebvre’s idea that “the organization of the city and of space in general is neither neutral nor uniformly advantageous” and that “space is, rather, political, inseparable from the conflictual and uneven social relations that ...
a later Sinclair collection such as The Ebbing of the Kraft (1997) is fully in the North American metropolitan tradition summarized by Brady, when she writes of how ‘the frenzied pace of O’Hara’s prose poem, its associative structure and sociability combined with its morbidity, resembles Wi...
Ed. Peter Garside, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Paul Fyfe directed me to a couple of useful works on the genre of the sketch. Michael Widner has recently written a dissertation about the cognitive dimension of genre titled Genre Troubl...
General estimates about error are summarized in “Understanding Genre”. Precision in these datasets is higher than 97%, but that still means there will be hundreds of volumes and thousands of pages mistakenly included. If you notice systematic problems with the data, please send feedback to the...