I want to be a freelance creative writer (science fiction) because I have always loved writing. I have more full notebooks with funky colored ink than Cher has pairs of shoes. When I asked my roommate what my ideal job should be (I always love an outside opinion), she said science fiction writer....

Level One - Journaling Memories begin to come to the surface. Anxiety released through the written word. Level Two - Writing to the Therapist Validation of experience by outside source, feelings are finally heard and uncovered from within. Level Three - Creative writing of the event...

Literature and art have led a close and mutually influential relationship through the ages. Literary works have influenced a predominant majority of artists from the great to the lesser and common. Michelangelo is considered by many as the greatest artist of the Renaissance and one who was also grea...

I gained so much from the experience of the Junior Author Paper that I feel that I came away from it with so much more than I was able to bring to it. Throughout this project, I have developed my writing in so many different ways and my writing skills have progressed immensely. It is interesting to ...

Fantasy literature is the product of the author¡s imagination. They used their creativity to create the story. Fantasy literature is mostly about adventures and quests. Fantasy literature is aimed at children and teenagers. They don¡t understand the meaning of life. Fantasy literature could help t...

Literature is a museum of creative writing of recognized artistic value, and it is the foundation of clinical success to analyzing and understanding writing. When I get into the rich variety of novels, poems, and plays, which constitute English Literature we are reading, works, which have lasted for...

This is the biography of John Champlin Gardner, Jr., an American writer, who was born in Batavia, New York. He was a teacher, lecturer, and prolific writer of fiction, children's books, poetry, radio plays, and scholarly medieval studies. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis, graduated i...

In both "Sailing to Byzantium" by Yeats and "The Oven Bird" by Frost, the bird represents the art of poetry and its value. In "Sailing to Byzantium" Yeats realizes that the value of poetry has been diminished and lost, and therefore wants to go to Byzantium in hopes of...

Good Practice in World Literature: An Examiner¡s Perspective 1. Show real personal engagement. Example: Chinese-speaking student re-translated a poem and compared her version to that read in class, focusing closely on the implications in English of the near-synonyms which might be used in trans...

WORKS CITED Clausen, Christopher. The Moral Imagination: Essays on Literature and Ethics. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986. Jung, Carl. The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature. Vol. 15 of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. Leedy, Jack J., e...

Can You Tell a True War Story? Tim O'Brien's short story "How to Tell a True War Story" is his fictional depiction of one of the narrator's experiences in the Vietnam War. This first person account of a tragic death of a friend is the example that the author uses to prov...

Oscar Fingal O\'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and poet. He was part of the Decadence, a loosely affiliated coterie of writers and artists of the 1890s whose lives and works manifested a highly stylized, decorative mann...

Truman Capote, one of America's more colorful literary personalities, was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction -- short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films. His work of fiction that i...

How often has one heard the question mostly posed by current students, Why must I know and take courses in literature? The question itself is not too surprising because many students do not feel they need any of the education they are getting to continue their life. What is surprising is how the ...

Sandra Cisneros' writing has been shaped by her experiences. Because of her unique background she is very different from traditional American writers. An important theme of her work is the heterogeneity of the Mexican-American community, expressed through differences of class, gender, education, a...

For many centuries, the Western Canon of literary works has set a standard for education by presenting the great and outstanding literary works of the past. As multiculturalism and equality thrive in the new millennium, the validity of the seemingly racially and sexually discriminating canon is bei...

The Metamorphosing World of Literary Criticism The critical view of any literary work is always subject to the societal vices of the time. Judgement of a piece of writing changes over time because new view points, set to different fields of experience, fixed by completely different historica...

The history of literary criticism has always been filled with vicious tit for tat disputes over the correct way to interpret literature. In the late 16th century there was Sir Philip Sydney and the Puritans, David Hume and John Locke in the 18th century and Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault in rec...

America, The Land of Opportunity Most people, nowadays, want to become wealthy and live in the lap of luxury. Everyone wants that million dollars, and to make it to the Promise Land. We use literature to spill our thoughts and tell stories about history. History and literature are linked in tha...

AbstractJohn Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in (1945). He is a novelist of ambition who cherished all works of literature of high imagination as well as craft and experimentation. He turned to literature itself as a source of imagination and aspiration for his fiction.Banville's novels offer ...