Checkpoint: Literary Canon Erin Hailey Patton LIT/210 October 26‚ 2010 Harmon Johnson Write a 175-300 word response to the following questions: 1.) What literature do you consider to be part of the United States current literary canon and why? Over the years literature has changed quite a bit‚ new genres of the wood works
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A literary canon is a classification of literature. It is compromised of literary works that share similar or related characteristics and are considered to be the most important of a specific time frame or place. The process in which a work is canonized is completely subjective. And just as the judgments and opinions of people change over time‚ so do literary canons. The status a work receives when it is entered into a literary canon is based on its relevance to the time period. Therefore a social
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Short paper number 1 One of poets best and unique writer‚ whom live have changed as a teenage little girl‚ shortly after she marries Tomas Dudley‚ was on the voyage to a new world “America”. This quite amazing child was Anna Bradstreet‚ who later in her journey wrote “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House” This poem‚ without doubt‚ as of many off her poems‚ is a pure example of Puritan writing. The first several lines of the poem indicate her truly believe in faith and values.
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Response to Literature Essay “The Horned Toad” ‘Your little Juan is safe with God‚ my son’ she [great-grandmother] comforted.” (pg. 4‚ paragraph 8). The realistic short story‚ “The Horned Toad”‚ written by Gerald Haslam‚ is awe-inspiring. In “The Horned Toad”‚ taking place in the mid 1940’s‚ in Oildale‚ California‚ a young boy learns how to be a companion with his great-grandmother. The narrator finds a horned toad that changes his perspective about his great-grandmother. In life‚ sometimes
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According to Harold Bloom‚ Literary Canon refers to a classification of literature. It is a term used widely to refer to a group of literary works that are considered the most important of a particular time period or place. For example‚ there can be a canon composed of works from a particular country‚ or works written within a specific set of years‚ or even a collection of works that were all written during a certain time period and within a certain region. In this way‚ a literary canon establishes a collection
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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 their works are overlooked and dismissed. Because of the different views of the time‚ one would expect a variety of opinions reflected in the writing of the
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Singapore Exploring the Post-Colonial Literary Canon Sandhya Rao Mehta Sultan Qaboos University‚ Oman Abstract. This paper addresses some the most prominent problematics of working with an established literary canon‚ including the extent to which‚ when implemented in universities worldwide‚ it represents the emerging concerns of diverse communities across the world. The main argument extended in this discussion is that‚ while the western-centred literary canon is being increasingly replaced by other
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Response to Literature: “The Elevator” Par·a·noi·a- noun. A mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts. In the short story “The Elevator‚” William Sleator uses fear and paranoia to drive his main character to a compelling resolution. The main character’s (Martin’s) fear of elevators created an imaginary obese monstrous woman who intimidates him every time he rides the tiny exhausted elevator. In the beginning of “The Elevator‚” the setting
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LITERARY CANNON LINDSAY DAVIS FINAL WRITING PROJECT KEISER UNIVERSITY APRIL 20‚ 2013 Throughout this course‚ the class has been given the opportunity to read some very real‚ testimonial works which allow readers to empathize with the authors. Some of these works have given me a new and literal understanding of history. The two stories that have personally affected me the most are‚ “The Watch‚” written by‚ Elie Wiesel and “Warring Memories
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including a working-class narrative in the American Stokes 2 literary canon‚ and thus serves as a prototype for modern development of class criticism in literary studies. Due to current academic undervaluing of privilege studies and class-based criticism‚ the text runs the risk of being read as historical fiction rather than relevant social commentary‚" particularly because the admission of a text like The Grapes of Wrath into the literary canon has remained largely unduplicated in our more recent cultural
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