... Era), there has been somewhat of an African American diary that continues to evolve throughout our times. As of now there is Pre-20th African American Literature, which would include authors like Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Dubois, William Wells Brown, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Charles Waddell Chesnutt and Frances Harper. The second of the two time periods assigned to African ... movement and her involvement as superintendent of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) before her death in 1911. 20th century African American writers mainly focus on Post-Reconstruction,...

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... to the biblical canon. The word originates from kanon' a Greek word meaning instrument of measure and has developed to connote a list of important authors and their works, concerned with sorting the "orthodox from the heretical- . If this metaphor is applied to the literary canon it would suggest, ... be a common one where assessing values in history are concerned, in What is History? Carr asserts that history is "the biography of great men-, yet the definition for whom makes this category is surely subjective. It must be the same for literary works too, there is no ... such relevant m...

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... and social standards of the people (Naeem, 2010). After the restoration of King Charles II, all the puritan regulations were abolished creating a rather free environment particularly for the authors of the time. Most writers began to imitate the French writers, throwing away the patriotism, love of adventure creative vigor and moral discipline aspects defined by the old Elizabethan and ... degree of personal animosity (Szwec, 2011). He severally demonstrated his animosity through his poetry work. In the year 1725, Pope published an edition of Shakespeare that attracted great criticism f...

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... a huge bulky body and he is compared with Briareos and Typhon who fought against Uranus and Jove respectively. He is also compared with a sea-monster known as ˜Leviathan'. The authors gave their characters such disgusting physical appearances to make them look more villainous, meaning that villains must have ugly appearances to reinforce their evil nature. However, there is a difference in ... not stick strictly to or copy the Petrarchan form that always ended with a couplet. Instead, he clearly separated octaves from the sextet (Lathrop 463). His style was widely followed by a great num...

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... and deflects the perception by encouraging the women to embrace cultural confidence and identity. According to an article by Danielle Dorky, as a writer, Maya Angelou acquired her inspiration from different authors who had written books and poems, which she used to read from her childhood (1). One of the most recognized writers that inspired Angelou was Edgar Allen Poe. In most of ... her lifetime, Angelou states that she had read all works done by Thomas Wolfe, as well as memorizing his works during childhood (Danielle Dorky 1). Wolfe is among the most celebrated authors of the early 2...

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... came to the literature realm. Literature was supposed to give nothing to the knowledge. This occurred when in the further, the knowledge notably increased. Second, literature ought to be the great-book namely "notable for literary form or expression". The criteria, namely the aesthetic, dealt with the "general intellectual distinction". This has resulted in value judgement, ... particularly to the non-great-books. Social background, linguistic, ideology, and other conditional circumstances, then, had no means. Third, the term of 'literature' ought to be limited at imaginative liter...

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From the great expressionists and the literary accomplishments of 16th century English Literature a new breed of poets were born. Known as the Metaphysical Poets; English lyric poets of the 17th century had many ... and accomplishments of the Metaphysical Poets deserves much mention. The Sentiments of the Metaphysical Poets are all similar and draw many comparisons. Most importantly, all of the poems from these authors share common characteristics. Wit, inventiveness, and an elaborate use of literary devices and stylistic maneuvers hallmark their work. Their pieces are highly intellectual an...

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... , such as poems, belong to other texts. Then we have so called archetype. It means that any new text is new realization of the previous traditional texts. For Eliot the great poem is transparent, not of the author's mind but in terms of what the poem is about. The end of the enjoyment of poetry is a pure contemplation from which all ... is canceled out, since the text is a function of a system, not of an individual. Structuralism argues that any piece of writing, or any signifying system, has no origin, and that authors merely inhabit pre-existing structures (langue) that enable them to ...

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The literary canon, a historical body of masterpieces and classics, is considered the best of the best; literary works that withstood the test of time. Many of the authors whose works have been included in the canon are white males like William Shakespeare and Mark Twain. The general exclusion of women and other races often means the merit of ... make sense to judge literature, a means of improvement, on an outdated belief that Caucasian males are superior? Although knowing the past is important, a biased view of the past isn't such a great idea since the merits of many are over looked. ...

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