European Literature contains many mixed emotions that are portrayed by authors throughout their poems and short stories. They often use a variety of literary devices to express their thoughts and emotions. Because of this, they are able to connect with their readers, and provide a sense of comfort by letting their readers know that there is someone out there who can relate to what they feel. European authors use literary devices such as personification, symbolism, and metaphors to express…
Marc Brosseau, a cultural geographer, proposes a critical and comprehensive contour of what he calls “Geography’s Literature” through which literature intersects with “the broader intellectual agenda” of geography (Brosseau 1994: 335). In this article, Brosseau not only documents the intersection between geography and literature since the 1970s but also argues that literature can be a new object for geography. He scathingly criticises the geographers who are looking for real facts and simple…
1) Smrti is one of the bodies of works mentioned in the Vedic Literature. Although it is given less importance than its other half Śruti, Smrti contains one of the most important pieces of Vedic Literature and Traditions. Smrti texts represent the remembered, which is the literal translation of the word. Therefore the Smrti texts include much of the poetic literature, epics, the texts on the four goals of human life (Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha) and the six Vedangas that govern language,…
• In order to have a more fulfilling reading experience, it is important to have knowledge of the religious traditions, beliefs, or readings from different cultures that could affect literature, despite an individual reader’s personal beliefs • Since culture is greatly influenced by its dominant religious system, even if a writer does not necessarily adhere to the beliefs, the key values of that religious system will affect the literary work • Despite a reader’s religious affiliation, generally…
Jonathan Swift: The Meaning Behind the Literature Literature is often used as a way to express one’s self and to tell a story. Jonathan Swift used this tactic when writing and was able to express his political views on the society he lived in while telling a story. Swift’s extensive, first-rate education gave him the ability to be successful in his later years as an author. He was able to obtain jobs for respected men as well as gain and form the political views present in his writing. As a…
In How to Read Literature like a Professor, Foster says that most pieces of work are centered on politics and that the books job is to persuade and convince the audience that what they are trying to get across is the honest and true way to go about things. In the case of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift dose just that, by starting off subtle and having everything fall together in the end. Gulliver’s first adventure to the Island Lilliput is what sparks a chain reaction that leads to Gulliver…
The word character has two meanings, it can refer to a person in a work of fiction or their characterization. Characterization is the process of how the author presents the character to make them seem real to the reader. Characters are an important element in short stories, books or graphic novels, because characters drive the story as a whole. The types of characters that are included in a story make the story flow. They also create different types of tensions and conflicts, as well as…
Humanities: Society of Greece Throughout the course of history, in particularly the society of Greece, it is presumed that the idea of gods and divine supernatural beings have a high importance, especially in their literary works. On the contrary, an impacting theme of humanism is developed throughout many of their works. Similarly, but not limited to; Iliad, Antigone, and Nicomachean Ethics. These three works either emphasizes the human experience at the center of events, counteract their given…
The Great Literature Debate John Steinbeck uses repetition and accents making the language emphasizing the great depression and the Dustbowl era, the struggles the Joad family had gone through and the goals they’ve created in order to find work and settle down, to express the time period before to modern day, marking this book as a classic novel. Repetition and accents emphasizing old times (Language): A) “Listen to the motor. Listen to the wheels. Listen with your ears …Listen to the pounding…
Symbolism in literature is one in every of the many tools that writers use to get not solely interest in one's work however conjointly to make another level of that means (Nair, 2010). In literature, symbolism uses to grant to the written material that means that goes on the far side what is manifest to the reader (ibid.). Symbolism helps in giving the piece of writing feeling and mood while not the author having to really spell out it. Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration; it…