Articles related to "Literary Theory"

King's book on crafting effective fiction is well-written, funny, and to-the-point. His advice is as easy to take as his books are to read: find the story and nurture it.

One of the best known rulebooks regarding linguistic problems and grammar. With over fifty years in publication, The Elements of Style continues to teach and challenge.

While Kahn makes many fine arguments and cites excellent research from Lacan, Strauss, and other critics to support her own assertions, her essay is at times disjointed.

Keeping work physically grounded will not only build a more convincing plot and set of characters, but more memorable ones, as well.

Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms could be seen as an exemplar of Modernism and in conflict with Marxist thought.

Getting started on a poem or story can be difficult, but inspiration is just a scrapbook away. A photograph is all a writer needs to help unlock some creative material.

Italo Calvino's lectures on his hope for the future of literature show a deep understanding of both its changing and persistent qualities.

Released four years after his 1979 suicide, these twelve stories show an underdeveloped sense of craft, but the grime and beauty of West Virginia nonetheless.

With this exercise, a writer will be able to turn rooms both real and imagined into history. From there, the details and the story should come forth.

Tips on writing literary reviews including information about composing introduction, paragraphs, and conclusion.

The idea of liminality, or inhabiting two worlds, permeates mythology and modern literature, particularly in genre fiction.

In 'What is an Author?' and 'The Death of the Author' Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes make seminal contributions to literary theory.

'Marxism and Literary Criticism' is a short and highly accessible introduction to the principle theories of Marxist literary criticism.

Ever since Uncle Tom's Cabin was publication in 1852, it has received critical acclaim for its literary significance and criticized for its portrayal of blacks.

The principal reasons for the creation of the modernist literary movement was a need for redefining paradigms and for separating itself from the romantic past.

The Romantic movement favors subjective, macabre, fantastic, and transcendental subject matter, while the Classical stance favors objectivity and rationality.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, she creates a dark tale about a man's desire to create life, to play God. In the process, he conceives a lonely, hideous creature.

The University of Southern Maine and Seton Hill University now offer low-residency master's degrees in writing genre or popular fiction.

Percival Everett sets his infant prodigy on a fevered journey from lofty intelligentsia and academia towards wisdom, truth and maybe even purity

Part travelogue, part literary criticism, part biography, "Out of Sheer Rage" cross-pollinates genres and comes up with a weird but ultimately brilliant bloom.

These letters span five years, from 1965 to 1970 -- the years leading up to Bukowski's fame -- and showcase him as the poem he claims he is.

Who were the authors of the New Testament, specifically its first four books? Identifying Bible authors has long been controversial. Who wrote the Gospels?

The Japanese lunch-box, popularly known as the obento, serves more than what meets the eye. For every Japanese mother and child, it is an object of ideological operation.

In the 1990s, Professor Kent Johnson published poetry, claiming it was written by a Hiroshima survivor. Then it was discovered that no such poet ever existed.