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From: Southwest ReviewWhen Ed Gentry, the narrator of James Dickey's Deliverance, stands over the corpse of the man he has killed with a bow and arrow, he waits for an impulse. “It is not ever going to be known; you can do what you want to;...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSEdible Wild Plants of Nova Scotia (West Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia: Eastern Shore Publishing Collective, 1976).Edible Wild Plants of the Maritimes (West Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia: Wooden...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionOften considered one of Hemingway's major short stories, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" shows the mature author working at the top of his talent to combine spare idiomatic style with richly layered narrative. The story comes...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionSinclair Ross is one of Canada's best-known prairie realists. His novels and short stories present nature as a force beyond human control, one that reduces us to our most elemental selves as we struggle to survive. Lines...
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From: The Ohio Review[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Oliver discusses the mechanics of poetry and how length and tone variations can result in a wide range of effects.] 1. All manner of effects can be realized by the choices...
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From: Critique: Studies in Modern FictionNew American Gothic disrupts our “rational” world view or pictures our unreal concerns; it gives us violent juxtapositions, distorted vision, even prophecy, without becoming completely private. When it seeks to present a...
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From: Modern DramaNietzsche wrote The Birth of Tragedy not only to discuss the origin of tragic drama in Greece, but also to elucidate a form of madness, the madness of limited vision in the German culture of his day.... Peter Shaffer,...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)James Dickey emerged as an important American poet and as a still underrated literary critic through an astonishing period of creative productivity from 1957 to 1967. He was regarded so much as a poet without imitators...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Peter Matthiessen has a dream of mankind living gracefully in the world, one species of many in an organic relationship. Unlike earlier American authors given to a version of this dream, Matthiessen can have no...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Like the majority of Marvell's poetry, ``The Garden'' was not published until the posthumous Miscellaneous Poems of 1681. It is generally thought that it was written during the time he was living as tutor to Mary, the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)``Ode to the West Wind,'' written by Percy Bysshe Shelley near Florence in 1819, was published with Prometheus Unbound in 1820. As one of the most frequently anthologised poems in English, it is one of a dozen lyric...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Widdicombe is a freelance editor of college textbooks who lives in Alaska. In the essay below, she examines the mysterious effect of the merciless cold in “To Build a Fire” and in everyday Alaskan life.] The third...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersBetween 1905 and 1919 Lord Dunsany produced one of the most remarkable bodies of work in the history of fantasy literature. Because he was an unknown writer, he had to pay for the publication of his first book, The Gods...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The gap between an author's concern to articulate an ideology and the generation of meaning through stage production can rarely have been as huge as in the first decade of Edward Bond's writing career. His attempt to...
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From: The Explicator[(essay date Summer 1991) In the following essay, Green analyzes and discusses the images and metaphors in Wilbur's poem "Beasts."] Richard Wilbur's "Beasts" depicts in striking imagery the anomalous place of man in...
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From: The New Mexico Quarterly Review[(essay date Autumn 1949) An English-born American best remembered as a film critic, Young contributed reviews to periodicals such as Film Quarterly, The Hudson Review, The New York Review of Books, American Scholar, The...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersThe works of Jack London, author of some twenty novels and novellas and over one hundred short stories, are marked by an enormous amount of preparation; he once asserted that he suffered a "lack of origination" and had...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Burns is writing specialist at Emmanuel College whose areas of special studies include film studies and nineteenth-century British literature, as well as gay and lesbian studies. In the following essay, she discusses...
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From: in Denver Quarterly[(essay date Fall 1985) In the following essay, McConahay compares Henry David Thoreau's Walden to Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, noting that both writers focus on self in their efforts to explain the universe.] I...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)A reviewer for the Times observed that Jim Harrison is “a writer with immortality in him.” Archivist Bernard Fontana, of the University of Arizona, has expressed his belief in the quality of Harrison's work in another...