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Consciousness Essays and Term Papers
Approaches To Modern Literary TheoriesAPPROACHES TO MODERN LITERARY THEORIES
BY
JIDE BALOGUN, Ph.D
Jidebalogun2001@yahoo.com
1. Introduction
The history of literature is the history of literary criticism. The latter as an ally of the former makes creative writing more complementary and helps to conceptualise the ...
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"Hell is Other People": Interpreting "Queer" in Terms of Existentialism"Hell is Other People": Interpreting "Queer" in Terms of Existentialism
The poet Algernon once said: "If he touches you once he takes you, and what he takes he keeps hold of; his work becomes part of your thought and parcel of your spiritual furniture forever."? Those few sentences appeal to my ...
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Hinduism, Bhuddism, Jainism, SikhismJainism is an ancient Indian religion that focuses on peace and perfecting oneself. It started around 550BC in Eastern India, around the same time Buddhism was starting.
Jainism gets its name from the jinas, who are spiritual “conquerors” who have reached ultimate freedom and perfection. The ...
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SeeingSeeing establishes our place in our environment. It is a very fine line between what we see and what we know , and it is almost impossible to distinguish fully where one starts and the other begins. “Margritt” comments on this through his work “The Key of Dreams”
What we know or what we believe ...
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Life Of HeIt's four fifteen in the morning. His skin is crawling riddled with scabs and scars, he hasn't showered in days. Sleep is a foreign figment that he no longer desires, his fingers twitch with a craving. He reaches for his phone but no tone comes, he has not paid the bill. Where will he get his next ...
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The Cult Of AppleUnable to compete on either price or selection, Apple has comfortably settled in on being number two, but that doesn't negate their being number one in the hearts and minds of those in the know. Whether they admit it or not Apple promotes and encourages a cult-like devotion to their ...
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Descartes' Skepticism From His DreamsRenée Descartes raises a particular problem in skepticism when he turns to his dreams for evidence of the value of his perceptions when awake. Descartes sees his dream analogy as potent evidence for skepticism, but many philosophers and academics since have disagreed. Consider why Descartes saw ...
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Musee des Beaux Arts: Human Suffering"Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden
The central conflict in the poem revolves around individual human suffering, and the collective indifference with which this is viewed by human beings in general. This premise is inspired by a Brueghel painting depicting the fall of Icarus, which Brueghel ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald And The Pursuit Of The American DreamThesis: F. Scott Fitzgerald's importance to American literature is significant because of his ability to capture the heart and soul of the American psyche during the jazz age.
I. The Great Gatsby is a powerful novel because of its style
A. It an example of Fitzgerald's non-traditional ...
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Important Influences on Sartre's PlaysThere was a brief period of economic prosperity and progress in France, called the belle ?poque (beautiful epoch) before World War I in the early years of the 20th century and right before the wave of pessimism began in the 1920s (Cosper 2004). At this time, inventions like the telephone, the ...
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Class In Antigone, Benito Cereno, and The Left Hand of DarknessClass: An Issue of Diversity
Often in societies where diversity is a fundamental issue, class plays an important role. This can be demonstrated by examining The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin, Antigone by Sophocles and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville. While these three works are ...
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Descartes and Thomas Hobbes On The Natural WorldRene Descartes concludes that we cannot have knowledge of the natural world unless all our beliefs are based on our own internal consciousness. He contends that no matter how much we see or experience of the natural world we will have better understanding by simply looking inward to our own born ...
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DemocracyDemocracy is considered the finest form of government in which every individual participates consciously and in which the people remain the sovereign power determining their destiny. So, in democracy the people are the ultimate source of power and its success and failure depend on their wisdom, ...
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American Isolationism After WW1American Isolationism
In its broadest sense, the term isolationism refers to the period in American history between the end of World War I and into the 1920's when certain American citizens and organizations held the view that America should remain a non-intervention and unilateral nation in ...
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Plato's Republic: Image of Festival and the Spectacle of TruthThe question identified for a critical understanding of Plato's Republic entails the "spectacle of truth" (475 d-e), and the role of the image of the festival in Plato's work. Firstly, the spectacle of truth entails that the concept of truth itself is a kind of festival, and the ultimate goal for ...
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Narratology and TimeOne of the main issues in narratology is the concept of time. The centrality of time is echoed in Ricouer’s (1984) debates when he says narratives are one of the many ways by which time can be actualized. The present study is to investigate the concept of time as well as the shifts of time in A ...
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Sigmund Freud in DraculaAlthough the 21st century marks a new age of popularity in progressive ideas and conversations about feminism, sexuality, and racism, history has gone to show that these ideas were not as welcomed as they are today and a lot has happened in order to reach this point in time. Sigmund Freud gave ...
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A Reading Of The Invisible Man With Modernist Literacy Techniques1) Stream of: consciousness techniques
Ellison shows us the psychological impact of racism on his protagonist, who feels he is invisible because of the blackness of his skin
1) Stream of consciousness;
This is a method of narration that describes happenings in the flow of thoughts of the ...
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