...Benyacko AICE 12 Literature April 15, 2013 Annotated Bibliography Berry, Ralph. "Introducing Thomas Middleton: Ralph Berry tells us more about a remarkable playwright of Shakespeare's period." The English Review 19.4 (2009): 28+.General OneFile. Web. 15 Apr. 2013. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA196227180&v=2.1&u=sain85351&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w Ralph Berry is an award winning writer with an M. F. A. and Ph. D from the University of Iowa. Since 1985 Berry has been on the faculty of the English department at Florida State University where he specializes in 20th century literature and critical theory. In 2006 he became the chair of the apartment. Berry also served as a publisher of Fiction Collective Two (FC2). In this critical essay Ralph Berry tells more about the not so well known, remarkable playwright of Shakespeare’s period, Thomas Middleton. Berry talks about Middleton’s great ability to collaborate with a variety of other well-known playwrights and discusses the difficulties in distinguishing co-authors while briefly going over several of Middleton’s plays, including “The Changeling”. After reading this critical essay by Ralph Berry, I can truthfully say that I am a fan of the late great Thomas Middleton. Berry changed my perspective of collaborative writers right from his opening sentence where he states that “Thomas Middleton has always been honored as the author of at least one great play. He now comes into focus as a great collaborator...
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...Orezina Sonoiki With “Revenger’s Tragedy” being set in Italy, it is almost inevitable that the book will not revolve partly around corruption amongst many other themes. Middleton starts this play on a strong note as corruption starts to flow right from the beginning of the text. Vindice a character filled with anger and bitterness opens the play holding the skull of his fiancée who the Duke poisoned upon her refusal to sleep with him. His hatred of the Duke is shown as he describes him saying: “Duke, royal lecher; go, grey-haired adultery.” Vindice talks about lustfulness, which is a form of corruption. His anger and harsh tone towards the Duke is expected as he feels hurt and he even goes as far as to call the Duke myself, adultery. Vindice is also angry about the discrimination his father faced before his death. Middleton uses his character as an immediate way to reflect the unjust treatment during that period and how corruption was almost seen as the norm. It equally shows how power drunk kings got. Lustfulness is a form of corruption present in the play. The first time we come across lust is when Vindice pours out his feelings towards the Duke. He first of all refers to the Duke as committing adultery as quoted earlier on. He also refers to Spurio, the illegimate son of the Duke as “thou his bastard,” which identifies him as being born of wedlock. This reflects the Duke’s lustfulness even further. Hippolito is another character who draws attention to the acceptance...
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...The text under analysis is an extract from “Fueille d’album”, which is written by Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry. She was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly. Among her best-known stories are "The Garden Party", "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" and "The Fly". “Feuille d'Album” is a 1917 short story. It was first published in the New Age on 20 September 1917 under the title of An Album Leaf. A revised version later appeared in Bliss and Other Stories. The personage’s characterization is managed with great depth of insight. Main character of the story is a young painter whose appearance evokes mixed feelings. While describing him Mrs. Mansfield uses direct and indirect methods of characterization. From the extract it’s quite hard to judge whether he is static or dynamic. But we can easily say that he is a stock character, because he is very recognizable. The author wants to show an image of “painter” which will be familiar to readers. She tries to endow her hero with such characteristics as inscrutability, strangeness and uncommonness. The language of the writer is very rich and full of various kinds of stylistic devices. They help the reader to picture the main character. For example, the epithet “impossible” and the antithesis “With absolutely nothing to say for himself...
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...Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a well-known modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19 Katherine left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became friends with modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. Her first published stories appeared in the High School Reporter and the Wellington Girls' High School magazine (the family returned to Wellington proper in 1898), in 1898 and 1899. In 1902 she became in love of a cellist, Arnold Trowell, although the feelings were largely unanswered. Mansfield herself was an accomplished cellist, having received lessons from Trowell's father. Mansfield wrote in her journals of feeling disturbed in New Zealand, and of how she had become disillusioned because of the repression of the Māori people. Maori characters are often portrayed in a sympathetic or positive light in her later stories, such as "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped”. In 1903 she moved to London, where she attended Queen's College along with her sisters. Mansfield recommenced playing the cello, an occupation that she believed she would take up professionally, but she also began contributing to the college newspaper with such dedication that she eventually became its editor. She met fellow writer Ida Baker (also known as Lesley Moore), a South African, at the college, and they became lifelong friends...
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...I will analyse a piece of literary text written in the format of a short story titled “A CUP OF TEA” "A Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield is included in the 1923 collection of her work, The Dove's Nest and Other Stories edited by Mansfield's husband, John Middleton Murry. There is a very moving introduction to this collection in which Murry lets us know details about the next ten stories his wife was going to write. There is a temptation in reading Mansfield to see her work as artistically peaking in 1921 and 1922 given that we know these are her last stories. The story has a narrative presentation with elements of a dialog. The subject of the extract is drown from life. The main characters are: Rosemary Fell a rich woman, her husband Philip and a poor girl - Miss Smith. There are some secondary characters too: a housemaid and the seller. Young and rich woman Rosemary invites a beggar to her home on the "cup of tea" just for fun. The beggar is the young girl. Her name is Miss Smith. And when Rosemary’s husband discovers that uninvited guest - a young and very pretty girl, Rosemary finds a reason to show the door beggar. The text can be divided into 3 parts. In the first part there is a description of Rosemary, her appearance and family. At the second part we learn about her desire to help the poor girl and in the last part we learn about Rosemary’s worry for Philip’s words. I think that this story reveals the women’s essence and not every man can understand...
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...Country Lovers ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Shatara Williams Instructor: January Pearson May 27, 2013 COUNTRY LOVERS Nadine Gordimer wrote Country Lovers in 1975. This story is about a prohibited relationship between an African American girl and a Caucasian boy on a South African farm. (Clugston, 2010) Years ago a relationship between two people of the opposite ethnic group was frowned upon. I am going to explain why this story caught my interest, explain the reader response method, and I plan to assess the story I chose using the reader response method. I chose Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer because I love romance and mystery stories that are full of suspense and drama. Country Lovers is one of those short stories that have romance, suspense, and drama. Thebedi and Paulus are the main characters in this story. Thebedi and Paulus grew up together on Paulus father farm. (Gordimer, 1975) Thebedi and Paulus were childhood friends who flirtation leads to them to have a sexual relationship. (Gordimer, 1975) This story is full of suspense, drama, and romance. Thebedi had gotten pregnant from Paulus but she never told him. (Gordimer, 1975) She married another man he was a member of her tribe in South Africa. (Gordimer, 1975)When Paulus returned, he found out that she had married another man and had a baby. (Gordimer, 1975) The baby that Thebedi gave birth too was Paulus baby. (Gordimer, 1975) Paulus did not know that Thebedi daughter was his. (Gordimer...
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...FREEDOM OF A WOMAN Susana Saldana Eng 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Lora Carmichael 04/15/2013 In the Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin (1984) Kate describes Mrs. Millard as being afflicted by heart problems. She is young and has “a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression.” It seems as Mrs. Millard is not happily married to Brently Millard. When she hears the news of his accidental death she has mixed feelings. At first she wept from the awful news her sister Josephine purveyed upon her but then stops and only sobs. She seems to have joyous moments after the death of her husband because of the freedom she will unveil. She will no longer be to the beck and call of her husband as it seems she is. Mrs. Millard feels she will now be free, free, free. Mrs. Millard realized she will now only rely on herself and not anyone else; she could finally do as she pleases. After Mrs. Millard realized this she begins to see her possibly new reality. “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.” Implying that she is now to undergo a new beginning. She seems happy and relieved she could start alone. Chopin’s theme for this story was Freedom of a woman from a marriage. This...
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...and the literary elements helps you to focus more on developing it meaning. Research states that the theme is a broad idea, message, or moral of a story. It even goes to say that it is the central message of a literary work. But mainly to me whenever I want to identify the theme in a story I think of it as the main idea, or ask myself what the author is saying in the story. As I read the text the author “explain”? the theme as been define as “A story that representation the idea behind the story” (Clugston, R. W. 2010). As you continue to read the information that the author provides you with you learn that the theme also goes beyond the plot, by telling you what the story is about (Clugston, R. W. 2010). Truly, I think when the author Kate Chopin wrote this story, “The Story of An Hour” she was thinking about a friend, a love one,...
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...Introduction: The Story of an hour is a short story written by Kate Chopin whose feminist ideas rocked the world in the early in the mid 1800’s where women’s lib movements were in their infancy. The lack of control over their lives make female emancipation a distant dream and it was due to the death of a loved one that much cherished independence of self could be attained. Kate Chopin lived life on her own terms and in her works allowed her support of women’s independence and sexual freedom to shine through which was shocking to the society still warped in long skirts and layers of petticoats. She focused her attention on love, sex, marriage, women, and independence and raged against the unjust world which viewed women as a lawful property. Her assertion that self matters above all love comes through brilliantly and the protagonists cry for freedom triumphs over her love for her husband.(Chopin) Plot overview: The story describes the one hour in the protagonists life where in she experiences heart wrenching grief, ecstasy of freedom and death. Louise Mallard is a typical housewife who is beset with the familiar problems awaiting the arrival of her husband. Her sister, Josephine at the beginning of the story breaks the story of her husband’s fatal accident gently and Louise cries in her arms with wild abandonment. The reader is introduced to the mysterious heart trouble which Mrs Mallard suffers from and this ailment keeps its date with Mallard’s destiny till the very end. After...
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...house gives Alcée and Calixta shelter during that storm and allows them to be together. The storm almost seems to have more of a presence than the house. One thing that stands out here, of course, is the fact that the storm is taking place during the important sexualized scene, keeping Alcée and Calixta within the house, and Bobinôt and Bibi outside of it. When the storm dissipates, Alcée and Calixta must go their separate ways, seemingly much richer for their encounter. When Bobinôt reenters his own home, he has no idea of the torrid encounter that just happened there. Clarisse, too, is removed from the main area of action – she's in another state. On a larger scale, the setting reminds us of the characters' places in the world. As the Kate Chopin International Society's site points out, there are some subtle class differences between the four main characters represented in "The Storm": Alcée and his wife Clarisse are Creoles, descendants of French settlers in Louisiana. Calixta and her husband Bobinôt are...
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...“Some Thoughts about E-Reading” Verlyn Klinkenborg’s article “Some Thoughts about E-reading “discusses the pro and cons about E-reading; Klinkenborg discusses her personal thoughts and compares e-reading and reading an actual book. Although technology is much more advanced still it is complicated and not so easy to use. Klinkenborg’s purpose of writing this article is to inform the audience about her personal experiences with reading both and what she likes and dislikes about the quality of the two. Although e-reading is very helpful still it is much different than reading an actual book and it is not so easy to cope with. Klinkenborg discourses about her love for e-book because of the immediacy that e-booking offers and the escalating lavish of its resources. However, Klinkenborg discusses how reading using an iPad is not as simple as reading a book being that a book is easier to handle; she supports her statement by stating how she is able to shake a book and does not have to worry about mushrooms falling from the upper part of the screen. Klinkenborg also discusses that she doesn’t have to wonder if there is another window open behind a certain a page number or about a software glitch that keeps her from turning the page and being able to read the book and there is nothing meta about the metadata about a real book. When reading a book you are not able to take away its facts details and information whereas when you are reading a book electronically the book seems as if...
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...about her husband death involving a train accident. Richards, a close friend of Mr. Mallard, knows that Louise does have heart trouble. So when relaying the information, they “ break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death (Kate Chopin IP1).” Going to her room, Louise locks herself in. Now standing there she’s finds a “roomy armchair” facing an open window. The sadness she’s feeling is gradually turning into joy. Kate Chopin “The Story of an Hour” Louise Mallard experiences rare emotions when grieving, which leads to her ironical death. To begin Mrs. Louise Mallard suffers from a heart condition and when asked to believe the story of her husband’s departure, “she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept significants (Kate Chopin IP3)." Her response was one-off; Mrs. Mallard sobs once and then locking herself in her room. Once sitting in her room she lets her mind run crazy, thinking of what she will do without Mr. Mallard? Could she ever do anything without him? However "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it fearfully..creeping out of the sky, reaching Puhlmann 2 towards her through sounds, scents, and colors that filled the air(Kate Chopin IP9)." Louise originally shattered, but thinking she begins to like what her future might be like without Mr. Mallard. In this time period society thinks that women cannot do as much as men. At this time her mind is running a hundred miles...
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...My Career as a Reader Throughout my career as a reader, I have read many books from when I was a kid to the present. I have read many different types of books including children’s books, comic books, drama books, adventure books, autobiographies, fiction and nonfiction. In my career as a reader, my reading experiences as a child, my favorite book as a child and the books I read in grade 9 have influenced my reading career. My reading experiences as a child are one of the three things that have influenced my reading career. When I was very little and had a hard time reading, before I would go to bed my mom or dad would read me a story. The books were about 15 pages long and were an adventure story. My mom and dad read books to be almost every day of the week and sometimes on the weekends. When I was able to read all by myself I got a library card so I could sign out books that I wanted to read by myself. I usually signed out either sports books or adventure books. These books were usually fiction. At school there were times where we could read, so I read a lot at school. My favorite book as a child is the second thing that has impacted my reading career. As a child I would read a lot of different kinds of books, but one of my favorite book series as a child was the books Brady Brady. When I was growing up as a kid I loved to play hockey. I loved the book Brady Brady because it was about hockey and as a kid that’s all I thought about. I also liked many other sports books...
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...Corey Campbell June 29, 2009 English 098 Kate Chopin Essay Catherine O’ Flaherty was born February 8, 1851 (tombstone date). She would later marry Oscar Chopin and become Kate Chopin, critically acclaimed and condemned author of two novels (At Fault and The Awakening) and many short stories. She was a beautiful, intelligent woman who was able to tell powerful stories about the lives of people in the nineteenth century. Chopin’s insight writing revealed the hidden emotions, trials, and tribulations of the nineteenth century women. In the story of an hour, Chopin tells the story of Mrs. Mallard and the extraordinary changes including shock, acceptance and joy she endures during this hour in her home. Mrs. Mallard’s feelings are changed by the news of her husband’s death, the reality of living her life alone and the revelation that her husband was still alive. The glimpse into Mrs. Mallards private thoughts revealed a women momentarily saddened by the loss of her husband. “Go away. I am not making myself ill. No she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window. Her fancy was running riot along those days of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long”. Chopin reveals with these words that this woman is actually relived to be a widow and excited about experiencing life without the stress and...
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...Kate Chopin In the late 1800’s marriage was known to be a male-dominated union. Women submitted to their men in all aspects of life, never speaking of the unhappiness that soon followed their marriages. Today society rarely speaks of discontent in the household, so writers express silent feelings through stories. Authors incorporate personal factuality or experience into the literary piece. In “The Storm”, author Kate Chopin, through character Calixta, relates marital problems, unsettled desires, companion necessities, and destiny to subdue persistent memories. Most evidently, Kate Chopin uses marital distress between Calixta and Bibinot to reflect on discreet complications throughout her own marriage. Critical author, Emily Toth states “Evidently no one described any marital discord in the Chopin household, but, then, Southerners rarely reveal secrets of the human heart to outsiders”(163). Like Calixta, obstacles were never noticeable, instead, shielded by temporary bliss. After Alcee offered Calixta a “sensual gift,” Bobinot offers her an equal gift but on that represents his different personality, “I brought you some shrimps, Calixta…Shrimps! Oh, Bobinot! You too good fo’ anything!...we’ll have feas’ to night!”(99). Here the audience understands voluntary submission. Though Bobinot “treated” her to intimate gifts rather than sexually stimulating ones, Calixta was perfectly content with Bobinots loving and devoted meaner. One apparent connection between Chopin and...
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