This chapter presents ways to encourage students to make connections between Edith Wharton's short story, "Writing a War Story," and war coverage by women journalists. Through presenting parallels between war correspondents' writings and Wharton's own experience of writing about the war, students ...
(2005) on The Marne, A Son at the Front and "Writing a War Story", together with Olin-Ammentorp's Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War ... YM Agrafojo - 《Oceánide》 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 The Great War and the French People A well-known authority in the field provides...
entitled “The Memories We Make Each Day and Lose.” The line is taken from a Zadie Smith article in the New Yorker, called “Some Notes of Attunement: A Voyage Around Joni Mitchell.” Part of what Smith has to say concerns itself with music and learning to attune yourself to...
Proudhammer has a heart attack on stage. Published in 1968, and panned by critics but widely read, "Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone" is an incredibly intense coming of age story set the 1930s and 1940s about racial prejudice, the American experiment, family, faith and sexuality....
The story sums up a situation that any practitioner of nonfiction will recognize. Those of us who are trying to write well about the world we live in, or to teach students to write well about the world they live in, are caught in a time warp, where literature by definition still consist...
in 2011. Long beforeKairosshe told the story of a passionate love story between a very young woman and a much older man during the final months of the DDR. I found the book a little mawkish but not bad at all, especially in the parts that introduced us to a world that had already ...
“Winterlights” and Christmas trees at the McKim, Mead & White architectural gem Naumkeag, nearby Lenox’s virtual “A Christmas Carol” at the Gilded Age Ventfort Hall, and “NightWood” the outdoor “sound, light, and color” show at Edith Wharton’s home, all through late December –...
TolstoyWar and Peace Anna Karenina Edith WhartonThe House of Mirth Meredith Sue WillisOradell at Sea Tom WolfeI Am Charlotte Simmons Man in Full Carlos Ruiz ZafronShadow of the Wind Richard YatesRevolutionary Road ZafronThe Angels Game Shadow of the Wind ...
One book in the bunch caught my attention:The Writing of FictionbyEdith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her 1920 novelThe Age of Innocence. Has fiction writing changed much since 1925? Are 95-year-old insights from the first female Pulitzer winner relevant to writers in...
25. Introduction to Four Marys and a Jessie: The Story of the Lincoln Women by C. J. King. Manchester, Vt.: Hildene Library, 2005. 26. "Virginians See Their War," in Virginia at War 1862, edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky ...