The Literature Book

DEPICTING REAL LIFE idiosyncratic detective (Sergeant Cuff), false suspects, a locked room, and a dramatic denouement. LITTLE WO ...

artist Paul Verlaine. The book was to prove an inspiration to the symbolist movement, and to future generations of poets and wri ...

DEPICTING REAL LIFE against convention. Schreiner’s portrayal of Lyndall won her both feminist acclaim and notoriety, while her ...

a potion to suppress hedonistic aspects of his personality, only to create Hyde, seemingly an evil manifestation of the darkest ...

DEPICTING REAL LIFE some critics suggested that the governess was hysterical rather than haunted—the story has been influential, ...

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T he dawn of the 20th century was characterized by an almost worldwide feeling of optimism that this was a cultural turning poin ...

and reshaped it into a modern form, first in the novella Death in Venice, and later in his masterpiece The Magic Mountain. A war ...

208 See also: Bleak House 14 6 – 49 ■ The Moonstone 198 ■ The Big Sleep 236–37 T he sleuth, who uses acute powers of observation ...

209 See also: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion 263 T he “I-novel” is a Japanese literary genre that emerged at the beginning of ...

210 GREGOR SAMSA FOUND HIMSELF IN HIS BED, TRANSFORMED INTO A MONSTROUS VERMIN METAMORPHOSIS (1915), FRANZ KAFKA T he main propo ...

211 See also: The Waste Land 213 ■ The Trial 242 ■ The Book of Disquiet 244 ■ The Outsider 245 ■ Waiting for Godot 262 BREAKING ...

212 See also: The Waste Land 213 ■ Catch-22 276 P oets of many nations wrote of their experiences of combat in World War I. They ...

213 See also: Les Fleurs du mal 165 ■ Ulysses 214–21 ■ A Portrait of the Artist as a You ng Ma n 241 M odernist poetry in early ...

THE HEAVENTREE OF STARS HUNG WITH HUMID NIGHTBLUE FRUIT ULYSSES (1922), JAMES JOYCE US_214-221_Ulysses.indd 214 08/10/2015 13:07 ...

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216 L iterary critic and poet Ezra Pound declared 1922 to be the start of a new era, asserting that the old one had ended when J ...

217 consciousness” was coined by the philosopher and psychologist William James (brother of Henry) in The Principles of Psycholo ...

218 the story of Stephen Dedalus gaining the confidence to liberate his talents from the conformist pressures of the Catholic Ch ...