MODERN FICTION AND POETRY
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- Spring Reading List Offers Poetry, Culture, Sex, Science Fiction and EssaysSample reading list for 2012 by a student of literature, featuring a huge variety of great fiction, poetry and nonfiction books.
Writing for the Magazine Industry: Fiction MarketThis issue is designed to enlighten writers as to the types of magazines currently looking for well written material having to do with poetry and fictional stories that are compelling and passionate.- Top 5 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All TimeThere are many amazing science fiction and fantasy books available and its hard to choose which are the best. These five represent the ones that have influenced my reading choices the most and therefore are my subjective top five.
His and Hers Literary Halloween Costumes You Can Make YourselfBring your favorite fictional characters to life with these dramatic literary Halloween costumes you can make yourself for men and women.- The Decline of Literary FictionIs the serious, socially conscience fiction gone?
- Poet's Workshop: Defining Speculative Poetry?This column discusses speculative poetry and provides samples from several well-known science and speculative fiction poets who are members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
- A Look into the Life of Jane Austen: Her Passions and InspirationJane Austen was most influenced in her works by her own life experiences with 18th-century society as well as by the many authors whose works Austen was exposed to throughout her life.
New Metrics in Poetry: Bringing Back the RhythmThis is another brief look at metrics in motion.- Edgar Allan Poe: Life, Love and PoetryAs one of the most well known poets in history, Poe has inspired many writers to follow their passions; sharing in the dark and devious mystery as conjured up by the masterful poet, readers have been captured since the mid 1800s.
- Modern Day Carrollism: A Look at the Poetry of Shel SilversteinAn article describing the career and poetry of the great children's poet, Shel Silverstein, outlining the subtle humor directed toward adults.
What Happened to American Poetry?Poetry, alive and thriving so recently, seems to have suddenly lost its relevance and its potency. Why?- Hobby and Leisure Interests of the Star Signs Libra to PiscesSports and leisure pursuits associated with the astrology signs Libra to Pisces
Horoscopes and Hobbies - Libra to Pisces Leisure InterestsEveryone has their favourite passions and each Zodiac Sign will choose spare-time interests, hobbies and entertainment to suit their personality.
Modern Tamil PoetryIt gives an introduction to Modern Tamil Poetry.- Recognition and Rejection of the American Non-DreamAn in-depth analysis of Beat writer William S. Burroughs'impact on society throughout the 1950s. Specifically looks at the themes and social parodies in "Junky" and "Naked Lunch".
- Postmodernity and Postmodern PoetryPostmodernism can be thought of as a product of changes of our times. A look at postmodern poetry helps us to understand postmodernity and vice versa. Through this understanding, we gain another perspective through which to view our current time period
Modern Poetry: Making the Inaccessible AccessibleThis complicated essay reflects a complicated arena: modern poetry. It explores how modern poets seem to alienate readers with their difficult language, even though they are trying to make inaccessible subjects more accessible to themselves and readers.- Master of Fine Arts: What It Is and What It Can Do For YouA brief explanation of what an MFA program is and its general utility to prospective degree seekers.
- Literature and Lattes, Episode One: Silver Spring, MarylandPart one in a series of bookstore/cafe combos set up by expert matchmaking technology (a.k.a. a hungry, literate resident of the DC metro area) and acknowledging the everlasting bonds between coffee and Kafka - or any other literary great.
- Harlem Renaissance: Origins and InfluenceThis a a research paper on the influences of the the Harlem Renaissance writers that continue to influence modern writers.
- Mexican and Indian-AmericansSuccessful teachers are those who take the time to familiarize themselves with the students in their classrooms. Understanding each child's background and unique set of circumstances aids in educating them to their full-potential.
- Poetic Analysis: How to Evaluate PoetryIf you have ever wondered how you should read poetry to really grasp its feeling beyond the obvious meaning, then this article is exactly what you need to read to get started!
- Alchemy and the Law of Attraction: Psyche - Body - Image - Metaphor - MindIn the face of terrorism, information overload, and unrealistic expectations of all kinds of relationships based on ego fantasies, we need all the help we can get just to stay relatively sane. Our culture is teetering on the collapse into meaninglessness.
- Learn About Comparative Literature and Humanities at University of Colorado BoulderBetter understand humanity through philsophy, religion, literature and history in Comparative Literature and Humanities classes offered at CU.
The Link Between Malta's Past and Atlantis' Future: A Mystery UncoveredWas Plato writing of a historic place, of a real civilization that ruled the Mediterranean basin and reached the heights of civilization, only to succumb to a violent end under the waves of the sea?- Fear, Sex, and Identity in Herman Melville's TypeeAn exploration of the uncanny effects of cannibalism, sex, and tattoing upon postcolonialism generally, and Melville studies specifically.
"Why Homoerotic Fiction?"In an email interview with Ambrose Musiyiwa, which took place between September 4 and 7, James Buchanan, author of several works of homoerotic fiction, talks about his writing, his concerns as a writer and the forces that drive his writing.- Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and David Herbert Lawrence's Odor of Chrysanthemums and Horse-Dealer's DaughterA critical look at Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and David Herbert Lawrence's two short stories Odor of Chrysanthemums and The Horse-Dealer's Daughter.
- Virginia's Rooms; Jacob and the Spatialization of CharacterThe novel is Woolf's manifesto in fiction of her unique enterprise to create character beyond the one-to-one mimetic method of conventional Victorian and Edwardian realism.
- The New Negro Renaissance: African American Culture Between Slavery and the Civil Rights MovementThe literary and artistic explosion that occurred in black America from roughly 1910 to 1940 is often referred to as the "Harlem Renaissance." Creative African American literature and art blossomed from all over the country.
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