Life Well Livid
The mouth kept moving but the words that came out heard themselves and were embarrassed by the nature of things while me and the other primates watched the clock anxiously anticipating the bell.
And there off! The boy with bad skin Continue Reading...
white walls crept up around me as I slept in the darkness of my room
He was in my dreams again. I wish he would stop haunting me. This time he appeared with a camera, which he held in front of his face first, then mine, and with the click of a butt Continue Reading...
Zebra in the Room
Wore a purple dress. It matched my shoes
Which I bought the other day at Macy's.
The zebra said, "Why don't you have some dessert?"
To which I responded that I was getting fat.
"When I was a kid," the zebra said,
"I was fat." Continue Reading...
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It would seem that the artists and the press of the era both recognized a hot commodity when they saw one, and in this pre-Internet/Cable/Hustler era, beautiful women portrayed in a lascivious fashion would naturally appeal to the prurient in Continue Reading...
All of the styles inspired by the Romantic current can be clearly traced from the Formalist point-of-view, as they had in common the use of image itself, leaving meaning and content to a secondary design.
In the poetry and literature world, the Ro Continue Reading...
Edward Bond's Lear vs. Shakespeare's King Lear
Adapting Lear for modern audiences:
Edward Bond's Lear vs. Shakespeare's King Lear
Shakespeare's King Lear is considered one of the greatest tragedies of human literature, as it grapples with the ques Continue Reading...
Ford's most accomplished novel, the Good Soldier, was published when he was forty-two. This famous work features a first person narrative and tells the story of two couples, the English Ashburnhams and the American Dowells. John Dowell is the narra Continue Reading...
Arthur Miller or John Steinbeck or even Ernest Hemingway, and most likely he/she has heard the name, but cannot place it. Or, the response will be, "Isn't he a writer or something?" Ask someone in the field of literature the same question, and of co Continue Reading...
Hyperrealism in Literature
The following criticism was made by Michael Rizza on Don DeLillo's Libra:
In Libra, Don DeLillo offers solace for the issue of achieving historical certainty; however, despite rendering fictive order to historical confusi Continue Reading...
Horton Foote and "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Horton Foote
Some aspects of a literary work are often revealed through the author's biography. Horton Foote is no exception, as his biography reveals a thoughtful Southern writer who could brilliantly captu Continue Reading...
Fortune Affect Grand Master Flash's Political Message?
Music is one of the most powerful forms of communication. It utilizes different types of information networks to cut across linguistic and social boundaries. In several occasions music has the Continue Reading...
During this penultimate period of violence under Rojas, the violence that wracked Colombia assumed a number of different characteristics that included an economic quality as well as a political one with numerous assassinations taking place. These w Continue Reading...
Renaissance Art Patrons and Their Effect on History
The great works of art that hang on the walls of some of the great museums of the world are not there because the artist wished for the world to behold their particular brilliance. It is true that Continue Reading...