... writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's earthy opposite," as Lawrence Buell characterizes this convention--has thrived, particularly in the greening of literary studies known as ecocriticism. (3) To consider an influential example, in "Natures Economy" (1994) Donald Worster locates, in Thoreau's work of the 1850's, the emergence of an ecological ... not what it appears;--that chemistry can blow it all to gas. Faraday, the most exact of natural philosophers, taught that when we should arrive at the monads, or primor...

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... focus on the definition of stories of initiation and the appliance of these criteria on Hemingway′s short fiction, other aspects of interpretation (e.g. the often mentioned autobiographical content or stylistic devices which are characteristic for Hemingway′s iceberg-principle) have to be neglected. They should, however, be kept in mind as they are important constituents of Hemingway′ ... other characteristics to define stories of initiation which will be discussed in the following chapters. There are, however, still some definitions which also find parts of rituality in literary...

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... whose Zoroastrian religious beliefs set its members on the edge of Hindu society. After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in ... "the writer's sympathies preclude his condemning or disowning his culture in its entirety, and the humorous rendition of character and incident makes the criticism poignantly effec...

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... whose Zoroastrian religious beliefs set its members on the edge of Hindu society. After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in ... "the writer's sympathies preclude his condemning or disowning his culture in its entirety, and the humorous rendition of character and incident makes the criticism poignantly effec...

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... diction in favour of sharp and biting colloquialisms. The major poet of the First World War, Wilfred Owen, began writing poetry in the manner of Keats, but his poetry underwent stylistic changes as he toughened and tightened his language under the pressure of traumatic, front-line experience of war. One of his most bitterly ironic poems, Dulce et decorum est, describes ... nationalism, and it was Irish nationalism which first sent Yeats in search of a consistently simpler, popular, and more accessible style. In the final phase of his career, Yeats reconciles elements from both his earlie...

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... government conspiracies and business fraud. This was used to give the audience an underlying uncertainty of the world they live in. At this point in time, there were a lot of elements that allowed American cinema to draw from, and in turn, steer American film in the direction that it has been going in for the past fifty years. Alfred Hitchcock in ... much what the characters do, it is where they're placed, and how the react. " "In Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, there wasn't any other figure that incarnated the literary tendency of French cinema. (Pg. 432) Cocteau with fellow direc...

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