Abstract This paper analyzes the four stories assigned for analysis in Gerald Vizenor's anthology "Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology". ( "Return to White Earth" by John Rogers, ?A Good Chance,? by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, "The Little People" by Maria Campbell and ?Someday Soon,? by Paula Gunn Allen). The author discusses their common themes, adaptability and the finding of identity. The writer illustrates how the four stories represent a wide variety of writings about a wide variety of Indian peoples, help the reader understand the history of the Native American experience, and to some degree, today's reality of that changed experience.
From the Paper "The four stories assigned for analysis in Gerald Vizenor's anthology (Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology) are each, to begin with, quite different, in terms of the point of view and the tone the authors have set. "Return to White Earth" is a very pure and charming story of the homecoming and coming of age of a Chippewa boy, returning to his native northern Minnesota following a stay at a boarding school in South Dakota. This story, by John Rogers, is as much an education in how Chippewa Indians lived, hunted, worked, interacted, and survived, as it is a story merely about characters and events. Beautifully written, and loaded with similes about the natural world and why Native Americans respect that world, this story is an up-tempo, pleasurable experience to read."
Abstract This paper shows how the figurative language in Book II of "The Mahabharata" and in the selected poems from "The Tamil Anthologies" stand in stark contrast to one another primarily because the language in "The Mahabharata" has war and heroism as its sources, whereas the poems in "The Tamil Anthologies" have the affairs of the heart as their sources. The author shows that both works rely heavily for their figurative language on the realm of nature as well, although for very divergent purposes and effects.
From the Paper "Both works deal with both themes--war and love--but The Mahabharata clearly focuses more on war, while the selected poems from The Tamil Anthologies clearly focus more on love. Inevitably, these sources profoundly affect the figurative language of the two works and portray worlds--one of heroism in battle and conflict, the other of love and its consequences--which stand in contrast with one another. In addition, the reader finds in Book II of The Mahabharata an immediate sense of the epic, of the grand city, of conflict on as grand scale, with much at stake beyond the individual's emotional or romantic destiny. On the other hand, in the poems from The Tamil Anthologies, the reader just as immediately finds an exploration of the "small" aspects of life and human interaction and particularly those aspects which exist in the lives of individuals. The rural landscape dominates the figurative language of the poems in The Tamil Anthologies, while the urban landscapes dominates in the epic tales of The Mahabharata."
Abstract This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the introduction to the book "Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing From the Land Down Under," by Phyllis Edelson. Specifically, it contains a brief analysis of British-Australian relations since the 1800s, along with the 19th and 20th century Australian views of Britain.
From the Paper "British and Australian relations have always been strained, to say the least. The first European settlement on Australia was a British penal colony in 1788. In other words, Australia was good enough for the dregs of Britain, and that was about all. The first settlement was located at what is now Sydney. Eleven ships brought 1,530 passengers with 700 convicts and the rest soldiers sent to guard the convicts and make sure they did a full day's work."
Tags: prison, convicts, wool, trade, island, England
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing From the Land Down Under," by Phyllis Edelson. Specifically, it contains an analysis of "The Aboriginal Experience," how contemporary aboriginal writers perceive the nature of their experiences with white Australia.
From the Paper "Throughout the Aboriginal section, it is clear the whites do not understand the Aborigines, or how they live with the land. It is also clear they have no desire to understand. The Aborigines have begun to live with the white men, but they do not become "white." They still live their own lives, and try not to take on too many of the white man's ways, but it is not always easy."
Abstract This paper discusses the book "Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing From the Land Down Under" by Phyllis Edelson. Specifically, it contains an analysis of "The Convict" section, and describes the reality of convict life in Australia two centuries ago. Excerpts of the book are presented to illustrate the harsh existence endured by the convicts.
From the Paper "If the Aboriginal experience in Australia was terrible, then the convict experience in Australia was pure Hell. Some of them were not guilty of any crime, they were just sent to a prison colony because they were in the way of something, like a romance. The early convicts lived little better than animals. "I have taken grass and pounded it, and made soup from a native dog. Any man would have committed murder for a week's provisions" (Edelson 109). Once a convict, a man was no longer a man, he was simply a number. "A Thing ? a Chattel ? a Number ? anything, rather than a man" (Edelson 116). This certainly makes it easier for the guards to treat them like animals, if they are not recognized as men."
Abstract This paper examines the book "Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing From the Land Down Under" by Phyllis Edelson, a collection of tales and in particular an analysis of the section on relationships. It shows how like everyone else, the Australians have their problems with relationships and how these stories illustrate the problems and the best things, about relationships in Australia. It evaluates how from this selection of stories, it seems that many Australians suffer from bad marriages, where adultery is the key to survival and any form of happiness.
From the Paper "Women of course play heavily in these tales, because they are central to the male/female relationships. They also seem to suffer more than the men in the stories do, but that is the same in every culture, it seems. In these stories, the women are all the victims, and the men are the winners. They have all they want, and do not regret their indiscretions at all. This could be related to culture, because Australian men are not known for their sensitivity, but more their brash recklessness, and it shows in these stories, where they get all the women they want, while the women have little choice in the matter.
One of the most interesting characteristics of all these short stories is the feeling of hopelessness that surrounds them. Not one of the characters is ultimately happy in these stories, and it is depressing to think this is the general outlook on relationships and love, no matter the gender. The stories seem to be saying that love is impossible to find, no matter who or how you love. This seems to be based on their outlook, which may have something to do with Australian culture, but the relationships themselves are not based on any form of culture or belief, they simply seem to be bad relationships."
Abstract This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes "Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing From the Land Down Under," by Phyllis Edelson. Specifically, it analyzes the essay "American Dreams," by Peter Carey. Some Australians do not seem to recognize just what it is they have in their country, and Carey attempts to show them how they are pushing their culture away with their "American Dreams."
From the Paper "Peter Carey's "American Dreams" is a veiled plea to his countrymen to stop thinking about America and try to appreciate what they have at home. "For our own town, my father says, we have nothing but contempt" (Ededson 166). The people do not respect what they have, or even those who live in the town. When Gleason begins building his wall, they think only the worst, and cannot think of something good or beautiful, and it is the same with how they see Australia as compared to America. "Later he told me that he thought Gleason had built the model of our town just for this moment, to set us see the beauty of our own town, to make us proud of ourselves and to stop the American Dreams we were so prone to" (Edelson 172)."
Abstract This paper introduces, discusses and compares two writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes and his "Refugee in America" and Zora Neale Hurston and her "The Eatonville Anthology." Specifically, it relates the thoughts of these two writers to the statement by W.E.B. Du Bois in "The Souls of Black Folk." "It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others...One ever feels his two-ness...An American, a Negro."
From the Paper "Hurston wrote her story for a white audience, but it would appeal to blacks too, because it depicts the townspeople with such accuracy. The townspeople represent people in a small town anywhere, with their particular idiosyncrasies and beliefs. Her style is much like the way the people of the town speak, and helps represent who the people are, and how they talk. She uses dialect when the people speak, such as "'fresements was served! Every gent'man would please take his lady by the arm and scorch her right up to de table fur a treat!" (Hurston 66). Again, this is a depiction of their two-ness. They speak the language of America, but in their own unique way, adding their own flavor and inflection, making it distinctively American and Negro at the same time. "
Abstract This paper will critique three poems from A.K. Ramanujan's Tamil Poetry Anthology. The basic premise for point-of view, genre, tone, characterization and setting will be analyzed in the poems. The moral, historical and feminist perspectives will be set forth in this criterion.
Abstract This paper examines a number of works from Michael Myer's 'The Bedford Introduction to Literature'. To begin with the paper explores the poetic methods employed in the featured work of Lord Byron and the paper then outlines the themes of three of the greatest plays contained within the anthology. Thereafter the paper adumbrates the plot and character development in a short story by Stephen Crane and delve into the subtle craft of the poetry penned by T. S. Eliot and by Louise Erdrich.
From the Paper "The following paper will very briefly discuss the theme presented in Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty" as well as three elements of poetry in the work. From there, the paper will discuss the main theme in three dramas - Oedipus the King, Hamlet and Doll's House - and offer brief examples from each play to support the conclusions reached; as an addendum, the paper will also detail how conflict played a role in the selection of each theme. Proceeding onward, the paper will examine "The Bridge Comes to Yellow Sky" and discusses how plot and character may have affected the outcome of the story. "
Abstract This paper is comprised of six short summaries of examples of world literature form the 'Norton Anthology of World Literature', 2nd edition, Volumes A and B. The summaries include the 'Genesis Tree of Life', 'Gilgamesh', the 'Pardoner's Prologue and Tale', 'a Conference of Birds', and 'Ovid's Metamorphoses'. The final page comments on the historical timeline of these stories and their significance.
From the Paper "The tree of life is a part of the creation myth in the Bible. It is an additional icon in the Garden of Eden, usually overlooked in favor of focus on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The fruit of this tree grants immortality. The can be ascertained from the name of the tree but also from a brief description of the tree that Good gives in Genesis 3:22. Of course, it is little wonder that the tree of life does not figure a larger place in the creation story: it is only mentioned twice in the entire book of Genesis. It is first mentioned in Genesis 2:9, which reads, "the tree of life also in the midst of the garden" (58). Of course, this doesn't tell us much about the tree of life. "
Abstract This paper is a critical response to the "Lais of Marie de France", a medieval anthology of romance tales collected and written by a woman whose identity is obscure. It also looks at how medieval social customs and role of women revealed by the anthology.
From the Paper What is most remarkable about the texts of The Lais of Marie de Franceis that they seem representative of the medieval social mind-set and soemblematic of social customs of the period The portrayal of decorous though sometimes perilous experience of roman
Abstract The purpose of this essay is twofold: On the one hand the author provides a general kind of review of the anthology edited by Nicolaus Mills entitled "Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America". In addition to providing a sense of Mills anthology by occasional quotes from some of his included authors, this paper also provides other arguments relating to the text.
From the Paper "Individuals who came of age in the 1980s witnessed a decade quite unlike any other that had come before. The confluence of certain technical and ideological trends combined to create a decade that was dominated by greed, consumerism, and the ubiquitous sound bite. This decade saw the beginning of the "plugging-in" culture, though at the time it is doubtful that anyone could have foreseen the developments that have occurred in that regard. Twenty years have helped create an American culture that is one of the most digitally connected in the world. The purpose of this essay is twofold. On the one hand, it is my intention to provide a general kind of review of the anthology edited by Nicolaus Mills entitled Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America."
Abstract Edgar Lee Masters was both a poet and essayist. This essay explores his anti-imperialist and populist views but focuses primarily on his poetry. It begins with a short biography and develops views on his writing as well as
providing details about his life, death and epitaph writing style.
