Elfriede Jelinek is one of those 10 women who received a Nobel Prize in Literature with 90% male domination in this state. She is one of the most influential contemporary writers. A feminist Austrian novelist, she has been writing on female sexuality, its abuse and the war of sexes in general. Accor...

John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in California. He lived most of his life there and often it is the setting of his novels. He was one of America's great writers because of his unique contributions to literature. He gave literature a different view of America through the eyes of the working and l...

William Faulkner Many great writers are criticized about the way they write there: novels, poems, essays, etc. Even some of the skilled writers are criticized, William Faulkner was a great writer that wrote several novels but was not criticized that much about the way he wrote. Although Faulkner...

Herman Hesse is one of the world's most necessary writers. Until winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, however, he was virtually unknown outside of German speaking countries. Since then he has been an icon for the young every where because of his ability to communicate the same struggles...

Incorporating jazz music with the lives of African-Americans during the 1920's, Toni Morrison's Jazz is a wonderful story about slavery and spirituality. Jazz is an extension of Morrison's previous novel, Beloved, which was about the lives of African Americans during the late 1800&apo...

The novel "Night", by Elie Weisel, is a emotional-filled volume of a first person account of the horrors and unthinkable cruelty dealt to a innocent child during the holocaust. Critics throughout the world raved at this literary masterpiece calling it "A Slim Volume Of Terrifying Po...

Ernest Hemingway is often referred to as the most influential writer of prose. He was awarded the Nobel peace prize for literature in 1954. In the message he prepared on receipt of the prize he showed his attitude toward writing when he declared ".... for a true writer each book should be a new...

William Faulkner: His Life and Achievements William Faulkner is viewed by many as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi where he lived a life filled with good times and bad times. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short ...

The Beast Evil is a very destructive trait and it is said that a person cannot even walk down a street without seeing evil or cruel actions taking place. Lord of the Flies is a great novel that teaches readers a lot about evil and human nature. The novel is written by the superb Nobel Prize win...

"Research Paper for As I Lay Dying" The things people say and do are often bold illustrations of their values. In his 1950 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner said, "The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in the conflict w...

Miller 1Ashley MillerMs.WilliamsAcc English 317 April 2000The story Of Mice and Men is written by John Steinbeck. John Ernst Steinbeck was a California novelist, he attended Stanford University.Steinbeck worked at "odd jobs"(Oxford University 722). He started off writing short stories and romantics....

Magic Realism appeared as a critical term for the arts and it later extended to literature. The term was first used by the German critic Franz Roh in 1925 to characterize a group of Post-Expressionist painters. Franz Roh described it as a form in which "our real world re-emerges before our...

Annotated BibliographyAbraham, Nicolas; Torok, Maria. The Wolfman's Magic Word: A Cryptonomy. Trans. Nicholas Rand. Theory and History of Literature. 37, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986. An interesting and insightful essay on the uses and definitions of crypts and encryption in text...

Russia has a lowest ever temperature of -44ºC, and an average of 104 days a year above 0ºC and a yearly average of 261 days below 0 ºC. It is the second coldest continent in the world only behind Antarctica; it snows on average 111 days of the year. It is dark, gloomy, freezing and miserable in t...

Dr. Wendy WeberEnglish 28 - MWF 1PM December 7, 2001Paradise or War: The Impossibility of Harmonic Separatism In the search for paradise, many strive to find this idealistic place never knowing what they are looking for. Often, people envision paradise to be a sort of imaginary utopia, with no care...