scholarly journals Theme of Life and Death in Katherine Anne Porter’s “Holiday”

NOTIONS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
S. Jothimani ◽  
P. Dinakaran
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Literary Style ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Katherine Anne Porter ◽  
Saturday Review

Katherine Anne Porter contributed memorable stories to American literature for over half a century. A Southerner and a contemporary of Fitzgerald and Hemingway the amount of her published writings are very small though her reputation is considerable. The Saturday Review has positioned her in the legacy of Hawthorne, Flaubert, and James as an artist and story-teller. Her fiction has been marked for its elegance, beauty, brilliance and accuracy. Most of the critics acknowledge about the supremacy of Porter’s literary style. They adore the effectiveness of her sarcasm, the precision of her language, and the economy of her structure.

O’Hara, the Heel

Pal Joey ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 15-41
Author(s):  
Julianne Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Literary Style ◽  
Musical Understanding ◽  
Mixed Reaction

This chapter examines John O’Hara’s influence on the flavor of Pal Joey. The musical is loosely based on his “Joey” stories (originally published between 1938 and 1940 in installments in the New Yorker), which reflect a style typical of the author: frank, realistic, and modern in vernacular. One of O’Hara’s specialties was his characterization of the antihero; this type of character features throughout his novels and short stories and was accompanied by a cynical realism that went on to permeate the atmosphere of Pal Joey, the musical. Understanding O’Hara’s literary style and reputation, and his laser-like focus on class relations, illuminates the place of his Joey stories in American literature. It also helps contextualize theater critics’ mixed reaction to O’Hara’s script, and to literary realism on the Broadway stage.

Ghosts of American Literature: Receiving, Reading, and Interleaving Edna St. Vincent Millay's The Murder of Lidice

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
pp. 1152-1171
Author(s):  
Mike Chasar
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
World War ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Saturday Review ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Radio Broadcast ◽  
Fan Letters

The history of Edna St. Vincent Millay's long World War II propaganda poem he Murder of Lidice reveals the transmedial logics that affected its publication and the media conditions that shaped its reception. After commissioning the poem in 1942, the Writers’ War Board coordinated a high-profile, strategically sequenced release, in which eight versions of the poem went public during a single week—periodical versions in he Saturday Review of Literature and Life magazine, a live performance featuring Hollywood actors, an NBC radio broadcast of that live performance, globally broadcast radio versions in three languages, and a book issued by Harper and Brothers. Comparing a set of fan letters (written in response to the NBC and Life versions) with a collection of interleaved book versions of the poem (books with newspaper articles stored between their pages) suggests how audiences might have been moved by the media of Murder's distribution as much as by the content of the poem itself.

Metadata

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew L. Jockers
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Bibliographic Database ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Literary Style ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Metadata Analysis

This chapter presents a first example of how the macroanalytic approach brings new knowledge to our understanding of literary history. It also begins the larger discussion of influence that forms a unifying thread in this book. The evidence presented here is primarily quantitative; it was gathered from a large literary bibliography using ad hoc computational tools. The chapter first takes a look at searchable bibliographies containing a wealth of information in the form of metadata and how, in the absence of full text, this bibliographical metadata can reveal useful information about literary trends. It then describes the author's project involving a bibliographic database of Irish American literature spanning 250 years. It also explains the results of the metadata analysis conducted by the author in relation to Charles Fanning's arguments and especially with respect to trends in literary productivity. The chapter concludes by highlighting the potential for analysis of impact of geography on literary style.

scholarly journals Antonymy as a Reflection of Herman Melville’s Bipolar World in the Novel “Moby Dick” Translated by I. Bernstein

2020 ◽  
pp. 406-416
Author(s):  
E.B. Demidova ◽  
L.G. Sharlikova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moby Dick ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Russian Version ◽  
Russian Soil ◽  
Light Darkness ◽  
Linguistic Means

Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick addresses the eternal problem of life and death, the human personality and its place in the universe. It is an exceptional piece of work about the tragic tension of the worldview, the sharpness of the material presented in it, and the most important role in this is played by antonymous linguistic means. The authors of the article present a comparative analysis of the linguistic means of the original text of the parable novel and its Russian translation with respect to the use of antonyms. The material of the article makes it possible to realize the role of the translator I. Bernstein in transposition of verbalizers of art values of the American literature on Russian soil, reveals its creative individuality and professionalism. Understanding the functional and stylistic importance of the antonymous component of the novel, in his translation I. Bernstein retains the most important in terms of content and style of this work a pair of lexical antonyms of the contradicting type: “Light — Darkness”, “Black — White”, “Tall — Short”, “God — Devil”, “Life — Death”. Contextual antonyms, word-forming antonymous pairs, metaphors based on antonyms available in the original text also have equivalents in the Russian version. Comparative analysis of the original text and the Russian version clearly shows that I. Bernstein’s translation is equivalent and adequate. The stylistic peculiarities of G. Melville’s novel “Moby Dick”, connected with the use of antonymic possibilities and conditioned by contradictory philosophical problems solved in the work, are preserved in the Russian version of the novel.

scholarly journals Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost and 'Because I could not Stop for Death' by Emily Dickinson: A Comparative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Dr. Madhushri Kallimani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
Life And Death

The study of literature is obviously the study of life and death. Literature deals with several nuances of life, death and the philosophies connected. Literature mirrors life and that is how we can realize what life is in a very meaningful way. In literature most of the poetry enlightens the readers through such meanings. This paper focuses on two eminent poets of American literature, i.e. Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, whose poetry mainly deals with life and death. Both the poets are known for their idiosyncrasies depicting their own style and content. Their poems are philosophical in nature, visualizing nature, relationship, divinity and spirituality. Both the poets were close to nature and spent their lives amidst the beauties of nature. Their poetry is simplistic and honest expressing the daily activities of life.

scholarly journals Between Good and Evil: Deconstructive Interpretation of Noon Wine

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Ru Wang ◽  
Yunyun Tian
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Narrative Art ◽  
Katherine Anne Porter ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arbitrary Line ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) is an eminent novelist in the history of American literature, especially famous for her short novels. <em>Noon Wine </em>is her important masterpiece, its plot and motif always lead to reader’s deep meditation, and researches focus more on its narrative art, myth archetypes and themes. This paper tries to interpret <em>Noon Wine </em>from the perspective of deconstruction and selects several important characters to combine with the subversion of binary opposition in deconstruction, which aims to conclude that the relationship of good and evil in this story is consistent with Derrida’s definition for the relation of binary opposition---supplementation. Therefore, when people interpret things or person, it would be better to be more multiple, after all, between good and evil, there is not merely an arbitrary line but space for more possibilities.</p>

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